2006—Senator Kerry’s Davos-led fili-bluster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito fails. The Senate respects its longstanding tradition of providing an up-or-down vote on the Senate...
President Trump said Friday he is nominating Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve, calling him reliable and straight out of "central casting."
President Trump sued the IRS on Thursday, saying his own tax agency should pay him $10 billion for having allowed his private tax information to be leaked during his first term in office.
Heading for a friendly business-seeking visit to China, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed he need not choose between his hosts in the communist dictatorship and his ally, the United States. This is worse than misguided, for it applies a veneer of impartiality to an administration that, in truth, sides with the tyrants against Britain’s […]
Fighting has returned to northeast Syria. Government forces are again pushing to take control of areas still held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). A temporary truce is now in place, but after more than a year of talks, Damascus and the SDF have failed to reach a real agreement on how these areas should be […]
After weeks of incendiary rhetoric, street clashes, large-scale disruptions of federal operations by organized leftist militia-style agitators, and the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of immigration enforcement personnel, Democratic leaders in Minnesota have finally spoken directly with the president of the United States. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), fresh off a rebuke […]
There are a hundred points to make and a hundred arguments to have about the chaos in Minneapolis, but the most salient question in the national political debate is why armed agents of the federal government killed two protesters. Yes, Gov. Tim Walz‘s (D-MN) leadership deserves criticism, as does Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s. The prudence […]
Trapped inside our home last week, my family was in search of a “snowy” movie we could watch together. After rejecting Alive, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Shining, we settled on Groundhog Day, which famously features a blizzard trapping Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Essays have been written treating Groundhog Day as […]
Do you want your sports spectating experience to come complete with political commentary from a bunch of random athletes who don’t know anything about what they are lecturing you? Well, it’s time to party like it’s 2020 again, because the NBA is back in the political arena. After the Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti, […]
As recently as 2009, the scolds were still warning us about a world with too many Americans. The Census Bureau then predicted a U.S. population of 400 million by 2050, with an expected 2025 population of 357 million. “Given that Americans, per person, produce many times more carbon dioxide emissions than people in developing countries,” […]
The District of Columbia funds the largest standing army the world has ever known and prints the currency that makes the world go round. Through a signature on sanctions or the shake of a hand, the district has the ability to make or break entire economies. But evidently, we cannot handle a little inclement weather […]
Read a comparison between Presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon, and more often than not, it begins and ends with scandal, abuse of power, and corruption. The term “Watergate” is synonymous with all of that, and people often use it to draw a direct line between Nixon-era abuses of power and those of today. But […]
