PITTSBURGH — In the late 1980s and early 1990s, my daughter, Shannon, and my son, Glenn, loved a book at the Carnegie Library on the North Side of Pittsburgh called Proud Pumpkin, a 1953 children’s book written and illustrated by artist Nora S. Unwin. It was not a big book. It was not a famous […]
The explosive fallout dominating today’s news cycle over War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing of Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia — the Pentagon’s top military planner accused of leaking classified information related to the Iran war — proves that internal subversion remains an active threat to national security. According to reports breaking on Fox News, Sylvia […]
The New York Times has performed a public service by detailing the quiet, methodical effort by Democrats and their allies to place a second Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s Senate ballot. What the paper describes is not ordinary campaign rough-and-tumble. It is a calculated attempt to manufacture confusion in a system already designed to favor the […]
Michigan’s Senate race may hinge on a decision black voters in Detroit make in the final days: Turn out for Abdul el Sayed, stay home, or cross over to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI). In the August primary, 108,722 Detroiters cast ballots, only about 21% of registered voters. That is citywide turnout, not a measure of […]
On Oct. 1, Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at keeping phones out of the hands of children while in the classroom. According to Kelly’s press release, the Unplugged Schools Grant Act “would establish a federal grant program for states that adopt policies prohibiting students from possessing or […]
Israel’s election has produced no clear governing majority. As ballots continue to be counted, early returns show that neither Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot has secured the 61 seats needed to govern. The immediate political question is who can assemble a coalition. But another question may be […]
Although President Donald Trump has sought to destroy Islamic terrorism and its foremost global sponsor, the Islamic Republic, or the Islamic Caliphate of the Shiite Mullahs, he confirmed Wednesday that Vice President JD Vance had written to a senior official of Iran’s occupying, repressive, plundering, and destructive regime, days before the midterm elections, under the […]
Illegal immigrant crime is plaguing Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs, and the city’s Democrats are holding training sessions to teach activists how to disrupt immigration enforcement operations throughout the city. Their objective is to cause chaos and delay ICE enforcement operations to allow illegal immigrants to flee from justice and accountability. Yet every second an […]
In October 1905, American diplomats received Norway’s charge d’affaires ad interim just days after Sweden recognized the dissolution of its union. The U.S. press widely celebrated this orderly separation as a model of Western self-determination, not a threat to regional stability. By swiftly recognizing the new Norwegian state, Washington proved that early engagement with pro-Western […]
