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MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. The Texas grandmother who made the perfect pumpkin pie might still be baking. The Red Sox-loving husband who ran marathons before COVID might still be cheering at Fenway Park. For many Americans, imagining what might have been will be painful. But especially now, at the milestone of 1 million deaths in the United States, the nations that did a better job of keeping people alive show what Americans could have done differently and what might still need to...

Promoting mass immigration is the standard for journalists across the liberal media. No wonder, then, that the New York Times has published a major front-page story about the problem of falling birth rates, suggesting that salvation lies in -- you guessed it -- promoting immigration! Damien Cave, lead author of that Times article, was a guest on today's Morning Joe. His conclusion was that the countries that will do the best in the future are those that are "friendlier" to immigration.Financial Times editor and Morning Joe regular Ed Luce took things a step further, suggesting that the solution is to...

As the new season of HBO's "Real Time" began Friday night, I watched with great trepidation, especially given host Bill Maher's disgraceful special on that network back in July wherein he spent virtually two-thirds of the program bashing President Bush and anyone with an "R" next to his/her name. With that in mind, my stomach started turning during his opening monologue as he made joke after joke about our president. I was put in further unease as he introduced his first guest, New York Times correspondent Damien Cave, currently in Baghdad, who seemed likely invited on to speak the liberal...