“There are no great men,” the famed U.S. Admiral “Bull” Halsey declared, “There are only great challenges which ordinary men are forced to meet.” Halsey, a gruff commander famed for his exploits in World War II, was no woke academic. But the idea that great men, or great women, don’t exist is very much a […]
Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proposed a national wealth tax. The idea is that it is a bad thing that a few billionaires (and one trillionaire) possess all of those riches that they acquired by building things and providing needed services. So, Newsom took to X (owned by Elon Musk, one of his targets) and […]
This week, Minnesota’s Board of Pardons — Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — voted to wipe out the conviction of a man found guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against a 10-year-old girl, days before that conviction was set to get him deported. He’d assaulted her repeatedly […]
President Donald Trump’s second term has delivered some wins, but a pattern of half-measures and deferred settlements risks reducing his presidential legacy to a series of temporary patches. His operational mindset is simple: when he cannot achieve something decisively, he declares victory and leaves things unresolved. With the midterm elections approaching, this cowardly approach threatens […]
For generations, the leaders who represented American workers in unions earned their positions the hard way, whether it be on the job site, in the classroom, or at the bedside. And that’s because the promise of the American labor union was simple: workers standing together who understood the job, the risks, and what it meant […]
A stream of foreign dignitaries, officials and mourners gathered in Tehran on Friday to pay their respects to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Feb. 28 that triggered the war. Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, a key mediator in the U.S.-Iran talks to end the war, joined mourners...
For passengers without connections, late arriving flights are a nuisance and inconvenience. For passengers with connections, late arriving flights may be highly disruptive. Transparency is needed.
The Justice Department (DOJ) declined on Thursday to release additional unredacted records from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling a federal judge that it has already adequately complied with the law. The DOJ’s response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) predicted during a podcast appearance this week that Republicans are headed for a “monumental defeat” in the upcoming midterm elections that could force a reckoning within the party. The assessment came after comedian Hasan Minhaj asked Christie if GOP voters “want the truth,” referring to the former governor’s...
