President Trump has demonstrated his willingness to use economic power as a national security tool. Now he must expand that approach to help Mexico dismantle CJNG.
The worst of Washington politics is in plain sight as Republicans and Democrats fight over Obamacare subsidies that expire at midnight on New Year’s Eve. It cannot be said too forcefully that the subsidies are extra money Congress heaped on top of permanent subsidies to meet the COVID emergency. This was perhaps appropriate when the […]
With President Donald Trump‘s approval ratings in the tank, all Democrats have to do is offer a sane alternative that normal Americans feel they can trust. With a few exceptions, they have done the opposite. The latest example came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was finally able to get a vote on her legislation, […]
During President Donald Trump‘s first campaign for president, pro-life activists were thrilled at his statements of support for the unborn. Once it became clear he would be the party choice, it was easy to contrast him against long-time abortion proponent, Hillary Clinton. Pro-life voters may have been turned off to varying degrees by Trump’s words […]
March Madness is the greatest playoff spectacle in sports, something that breaks through into popular culture and people’s workplaces and dominates an entire month of the sports calendar. Naturally, the powers that be want to destroy it. Joel Klatt, who covers college football for Fox Sports, spoke about how he despises college basketball‘s March Madness […]
Ray Bradbury gave a characteristically prescient interview to the Seattle Times over 30 years ago, in 1993. “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading,” the Fahrenheit 451 author said. “Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us — it’s all junk, all trash, tidbits of news.” […]
The belief that if you work, you will be able to succeed has fallen in recent years, but a strong 70% majority still believes it is true. Democrats have always been less likely to believe the American dream exists, with just 60% believing the above statement is true today compared to 88% of Republicans. Just […]
Maybe the progressives can bend the arc of history. Maybe feminists can change the rules of the game. But try as they might, the self-appointed agents of change cannot change human nature. Specifically, women and men will always be different, and their divergent tastes and desires don’t always match the script of modern, enlightened, egalitarianism. […]
After 15 years of Republican railing against the Affordable Care Act, GOP lawmakers have it on the ropes. But four House Republicans are trying to help prop it up. The Republican quartet joined Democrats Dec. 17 to force a House vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits, which will expire […]
Having been part of the conservative movement for over 35 years, I’ve met a lot of the people who make the movement work. Unfortunately, given this long association, I find myself knowing more and more of the departed conservatives each year. This year was a particularly tough one, as I personally knew 10 of the […]
The new psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney, The Housemaid, is one of those movies that is more interesting to talk around than about. In the film, Millie (Sweeney) is hired on as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy Long Island family, boarding in their #cottagecore aesthetic attic. The danger of being so young and blonde […]
Despite whatever misgivings I have about the current president, and I confess to having many, he’s right about pencils. “How many pencils does a person need?” He famously asked recently. You only need “one or two,” he insisted. And when I read those words, I looked up from my newspaper to the three jars on […]
Meir Dagan died in 2016, six years after his tenure as director of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency, ended. But some of the fruits of his efforts were apparent this past summer, during the so-called Iran-Israel war, when the latter country carried out a series of daring and ultimately successful operations against the Iranian […]
In 2005, my Army unit searched an Afghan village for an enemy weapons cache. Our convoy consisted of a lead Humvee with a .50 caliber machine gun, a center civilian pickup, and my team’s trail Humvee, in which I manned the Mk 19 grenade-launching machine gun. It was a pretty average day. Then our convoy […]
