0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Jan 23, 2025StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Trump Stands With The Founders On TradeWhen President Donald Trump gave his inaugural address in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, he included an explanation of his trade policy. “I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 6 min · Jan 11, 2025StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Carter’s Greatest Conflict vs. Reagan’sWhen President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. It was no contest. Reagan took 44 of the 50 states and won the popular vote by more than 8 million…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Dec 24, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Christmas TogetherDuring the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco — to visit some animals that were gathered there. This was…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Dec 5, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: ISIS-K And Biden’s BorderWhen President George W. Bush stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2005, and gave his second inaugural address , as this column has noted before, he argued that maintaining freedom in the United States would…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Nov 28, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: America’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation Was About The Constitution — And Not Everyone Liked ItWhen the first Congress met at Federal Hall in New York City in 1789, there were three days in September that saw a telling sequence of events. On Thursday, Sept. 24 , the House of Representatives finalized the language…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 6 min · Nov 20, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Biden Met Three Times With Leader Of Genocidal RegimePresident Joe Biden met last week for the third time with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the leader of a regime Biden’s own administration has repeatedly declared is engaging in genocide. No White House statement about…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 6 min · Oct 24, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: America Needs A Congress That Will Stop Borrowing MoneyWith the November election approaching, much attention is focused on the presidential contest — but at least as significant are the contests that will determine who controls Congress. That is because Congress controls…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Oct 10, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Government Employees Exceed Population Of FloridaThe state of Florida had a population of 22,610,726 as of July 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau . That ranked third among all states — exceeded only by Texas, which had a population of 30,503,301; and…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Oct 3, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Justice Has Been Served. It Only Took 41 YearsIt was a seven-story building that sat along the Mediterranean and looked out over the sea. That was the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983. On April 18 of that year, it was targeted by a recently formed…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Sep 25, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Who Will Catholic Voters Back This November?When Brian Buescher, whom then-President Donald Trump had nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, appeared at his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 28, 2018…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Opinion · 5 min · Sep 18, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: It’s Time To Deal With The DebtThe median age in the United States in 2023 was 39.1 years, according to the Census Bureau . That means that approximately half the people in this country were born in 1984 or later. What was happening four decades ago…0 commentsShare
0TTerence P. Jeffrey· Reporting · 5 min · Sep 4, 2024StoryTERENCE P. JEFFREY: Can Harris Be Trusted To Actually Secure The Border?East Blake Lane Park in Oakton, Virginia, sits about 16 miles down the road from the White House, where President Joe Biden lives, and about 17 1/2 miles from the Naval Observatory, where Vice President Kamala Harris…0 commentsShare