Idaho is one of the top five reddest states in America -- for now. The majority of its citizens are rock-ribbed conservatives, pro-life, pro-law-and-order and devoutly Christian. Voters have chosen Republican presidential candidates every year there since 1952 (with the exception of 1964).

In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, there were 2,515,427 babies born in this country. Of those, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 95,700 -- or 3.8% -- were born to unmarried mothers.

For two years, Americans have been partially or entirely deprived of fundamental freedoms -- of assembly, speech, religious liberty, making a living, a child’s right to an education, access to early treatment for a potentially deadly virus, and more. That half of America, especially its elites, has supported these deprivations of freedom is why many of us worry about our future as a free society.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dennis Prager is on vacation this week. We hope readers will be interested in the following Creators Syndicate column by Laura Hollis.

As we race toward this fall’s midterm elections, it is obvious to even cursory observers of our political landscape that Democrats are in for a shellacking. Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have job approval ratings that are underwater by double-digit margins. Even more ominous, the RealClearPolitics polling average for voters who have been asked recently about the direction of the country reveals an astonishing 37.5% margin in favor of the idea America is on the “wrong track.”

Senate Democrats and White House officials are hastily piecing together a revised version of the Build Back Better Act, after Senator Joe Manchin announced he couldn’t support the version passed by the House.

An often-heard rallying cry by conservative Republicans is that we need term limits for those holding political office. The solution of term limits would help solve the problem that the longer a person remains a politician, the more likely they are to become pawns of big-money donors and less representative of the common folks who first elected them.

Whenever the U.S. goes head-to-head with China at the Olympics, there’s always an intense competitiveness between the two sports superpowers. But that rivalry extends to a lot more than the Games, as FBI Director Christopher Wray has spelled out in terrifying detail. China is determined to win where it matters -- in global supremacy -- and they’ll infiltrate any American institution to do it. In most cases, he warns, they already have.

A young man who looks like a teenager walks into a liquor store and pulls a bottle of cheap whiskey off a shelf. He puts it down at the checkout counter and pulls out his wallet. The clerk at the counter looks at him skeptically. “Can I see your ID?” he asks.

How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women’s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people’s values and level of rationality.