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As you may already know, Michael Cohen just ruined his career and proved to be a real shyster lawyer after releasing an unethical recording of a private conversation with Trump (then his client), to CNN of all places. Trump’s response was predictable and very common sense: Yes indeed, what kind of lawyer would do such a thing? Specifically, I wonder… Matt Drudge ran a very interesting headline on Wednesday: The tape released by Cohen to CNN was about a conversation from 2016 with then-candidate Trump, regarding a possible hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, a porn-star who allegedly had a one-time...

It's now more than 50 years since the revolution began. Sexual "liberation" has been endlessly ballyhooed by the national media, promoted in the movies, embraced by Playboy guys and Cosmo girls as a freedom more delicious than Eden's apple. No American under 40 can honestly remember a time when sex on TV was taboo, when "living together" meant married, when "gay" meant happy, and when almost every child lived with both parents.   If truth be told, the revolution has been a disaster. Before the push to loosen America's sexual mores really got under way in the 1950s, the...

A new national study suggests that immigrants in the United States receive about half as much medical care as their American counterparts. U.S.-born residents averaged $2,564 in annual health care costs compared with per capita immigrant care that averaged $1,139, about 55 percent less, according to the study published Monday in the American Journal of Public Health. The study concluded that the spending disparity refuted the notion that immigrants were "a substantial burden" on the U.S. health-care system. It estimated that immigrant care accounted for $39.5 billion, or almost 8 percent of U.S. health-care spending in 1998, the year that...