President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that his travel restrictions have expanded to 20 additional countries. Citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria are now banned from […]

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Authorities in South Texas arrested a human smuggler who had allegedly dragged a sick migrant out of a stash house and dumped him on a rural road, expecting him to die.

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NEW YORK -- Warner Bros. is telling shareholders to reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, saying that a rival bid from Netflix will be better for customers.

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What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden?

The two presidents could hardly be more different in most ways—but in the one that counts most with voters, Trump is in danger of resembling his predecessor.

Americans rejected Biden and the Democrats last year because they were incensed at the lousy state of the economy.

Right now, they’re not much happier with Trump’s economy.

Inflation was the No. 1 concern on voters’ minds last year, and it’s still a top concern today.

Trump’s team say they plan to tout “affordability” as a theme Republicans can win on in next November’s congressional midterms.

If the election were held today, that pitch wouldn’t sell:

An AP/NORC poll released last week found 67% of Americans view the president’s handling of the economy negatively.

Yet Trump told Politico’s Dasha Burns in a Dec. 8 interview he’d give himself an “A-plus” grade on the economy—and when she questioned that, he raised it to “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.”

The administration thinks Americans will come around to Trump’s perspective on the economy sooner rather than later, and well ahead of the midterms.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reassures his colleagues, and his boss, that come April 15—when Americans see just what the permanent tax cuts Trump shepherded through Congress this year mean for them personally—everyone will feel great.

And Trump has a plan he thinks will guarantee a high-growth economy next year: getting the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates.

He told The Wall Street Journal last week he wants “the lowest rate in the world”—indeed “1% and maybe lower than that.”

Early next year, Trump is set to appoint a new Fed chairman.

He says of one leading candidate, Kevin Warsh, “He thinks you have to lower interest rates” and “so does everybody else that I’ve talked to.”

Lower rates mean easy credit, with businesses and individuals able to take out more loans to finance whatever improvements, new ventures or other spending they wish.

That sounds great—it’s almost free money!—but it’s a recipe for inflation.

The benefits Americans get from keeping more of the money they earn, thanks to Trump’s tax cuts, will be wiped out if inflation accelerates.

A Harvard/Harris poll last week found 57% of voters think Trump is losing the fight against inflation, and while that’s an improvement over last month, when 60% said the same, it’s a warning the administration can hardly afford to ignore.

If Trump gets inflation wrong, nothing he gets right will save the GOP next November—or in 2028.

The good news for Trump is that his overall approval ratings, in the low 40s, are a little higher than Barack Obama’s or George W. Bush’s at this point in their second terms.

The bad news is Obama and Bush both saw their side lose big in the next congressional elections, and neither man was succeeded in the White House by a member of his own party.

Trump is betting big on artificial intelligence to drive the kind of economic boom Bill Clinton enjoyed thanks to the telecommunications and internet revolution.

The administration wants to beat China in AI development no matter what, which is why Trump just issued an executive order limiting states’ ability to regulate the technology.

But there’s another angle, too, as a report in Semafor notes: “A big car company might promise a $5 billion or $10 billion investment. The big AI companies can raise and spend orders of magnitude more” and “Trump is good at counting zeros.”

The public, however, takes a darker view of AI, with fully 50% of Americans polled by Pew this fall saying they’re more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life—compared to only 10% who were more excited than concerned.

Trump can’t bank on AI giving him that A-plus for the economy he thinks he deserves.

What the administration can do, however, is boost other sectors as well by making slashing red tape and regulation a top priority in Year Two.

Freeing up the economy is the healthy alternative to a Fed-driven credit binge.

Interest-rate cuts are a drug that may produce instant euphoria, but the withdrawal symptoms are deadly—as debt-driven booms turn into devastating busts.

Trump inherited a debilitated economy from a debilitated President Biden; voters will make some allowance for that.

What they won’t do is give the Republican Party another chance if it makes inflation worse instead of better.

Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.

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Clueless leftist “comedian” Whoopi Goldberg was forced to apologize and issue a correction just minutes after falsely claiming President Donald Trump did not comment on the Brown University shooting. As […]

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A New Zealand court sentenced the country's former deputy police commissioner to nine months of home detention on Wednesday, after he admitted to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material.

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A first court appearance is scheduled Wednesday for Rob Reiner’s son, Nick Reiner, where he will face two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents.

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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's approval ratings have fallen to a record low amid increasing dissatisfaction with his government's handling of key issues like the economy and immigration.

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America is waking up. 

After years of being told that gender is fluid, that chromosomes are incidental, and that masculinity is toxic or obsolete, America is rediscovering a truth our culture worked hard to bury: The Y matters. 

The crisis began the moment the “Y” was dismissed. Influential voices turned identity into a DIY project, erased the Y chromosome as a marker of manhood, blurred essential boundaries, and loosened every anchor that once helped boys grow. Time-tested anchors of family, faith, community, mentors, and clear expectations were discarded. 

In the name of compassion, boys were told that male and female were interchangeable, that fathers were optional, and that masculinity was either threatening or foolish. We’re now living with the consequences: Boys are faltering, and a generation is stalling on the road to manhood. 

What we’ve offered boys is not freedom, but confusion. Confusion is crippling. It produces faltering boys instead of faithful men. A nervous system without clarity is a nervous system in distress. That’s not ideology. That’s neuroscience. 

The Data Is Sobering 

Young men today are slower to finish school, launch careers, get married, or start families than any generation in modern history. Millions of boys grow up without fathers.

Boys and men consume pornography at neurological overload levels, male suicide rates continue to climb, and a majority of young men say they feel directionless, discouraged, or unsure what adulthood even requires of them. 

More boys now have smartphones than fathers in the home, and young men are being shaped more by algorithms than by actual men. The problem has never been the presence of masculinity. It’s the absence of it.

A confused culture produces confused boys. Confused boys become wounded boys. And wounded boys—and wounded men—act out. What we often call “toxic masculinity” isn’t masculinity at all—it’s strength severed from love, power detached from purpose. This isn’t accidental. This is cause and effect. 

When Men Go Silent, the Influencers Step In 

In the midst of confusion, the strongest voices fill the void. For these craving direction, voices like Andrew Tate or Nick Fuentes appeal. They speak with certainty. They promise strength, belonging, answers, and initiation.  

This isn’t an endorsement of them. It’s an indictment of us. A society that erases sexual difference is not enlightened—it’s disoriented. And children cannot flourish in a world where nothing is solid. 

This Is Why the ‘Y’ Matters 

America is waking up to the reality that the “Y” matters. That masculinity matters. And young men are searching for meaning in the only place capable of giving it: the truths of Scripture. There, they discover that the “Y” doesn’t just mark their biology—it points them to their purpose. The “Y” gives them their Why. 

The Y chromosome is not a cultural construct. It is a design—biological, psychological, and spiritual. Every man is born with a Y. But only intentional formation gives him his Why. 

Masculinity was God’s idea first, not a social disease that needs to be eradicated. And as C.S. Lewis wrote of Aslan, we can say of men: “He isn’t safe. But he’s good.” We don’t need less masculinity. We need masculinity ordered toward courage, conviction, humility and love. 

The Model Still Stands 

The truest picture of manhood isn’t coming from Hollywood, Washington, or YouTube. It comes from Jesus Christ—the One who confronted hypocrisy and welcomed the broken, who overturned tables and washed feet, who carried the weight of the world not to dominate but to redeem. 

This is masculinity rightly ordered. This is the standard that boys are starving for. 

Where the Work Happens 

Across the country, boys are waiting—quietly, anxiously—for men to step in with the clarity the culture refuses to give. This is the work being done at Trail Life USA. Not politics. Not theatrics. Intentional formation 

To do that, boys need milestones on the journey to manhood. Boys need formation. Boys need men. They need fathers and mentors who teach them how to carry weight, how to honor women, how to master impulses, how to take responsibility, how to use strength for the good of others—strength that serves, not dominates. 

Men walking with boys. Men modeling strength ruled by love. Men showing boys how to build, protect, serve and lead. Not perfect men. Present men. Because if we lose the boys, we lose the future. 

A Generation Is Watching 

Every boy is asking, even if he never says it out loud: Who will show me the way? 

Masculinity doesn’t emerge by accident. It is shaped by steady hands, steady hearts, and steady men. Freedom needs fathers. Faith needs fighters. Families need men who know who they are—and why they’re here.

America needs masculinity right now. It will take restoring the principles that created the greatest generation to build a new generation that doesn’t just navigate this destructive tide but turns back the tide itself. 

God made you masculine on purpose. That means your “Y” matters. So, embrace your “Y” and live your Why. Because the “boY” matters, and boys are looking for men to follow. 

And when boys flourish, families strengthen, communities stabilize, and nations endure.

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LOS ANGELES -- Some of Rob and Michele Reiner’s closest friends, including actors Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks, Martin Short and Larry David, have released a statement mourning the couple and praising their love of film and country.

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Moses Mathis likely didn’t expect to become Santa’s helper when a needy child approached him decades ago for help repairing a “raggedy” bike. But by 1990, he had become known […]

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