Beginning with the annexation of Texas, which voted to become the 28th state in 1845, Polk aggressively expanded America’s ...

The president’s remarks at the World Economic Forum show that he still doesn’t understand how American greatness functions globally.

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Crime is down 20 percent, and you had nothing to do with it. The taunt was glib, but it hinted at a profound question about ...

Because ‘the United States alone can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice.’ His very words this morning.

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