Oldspeak Books opened in a converted chapel in the pretty Suffolk village of Long Melford in June 2025. Its founder, Joanne May, saw that her England and the wider West are beset from without and within, and she wanted to do something about it. Like George Orwell, who took his pseudonymous surname from a local […]
The federal government posted a $432.3 billion deficit in July, the biggest since March 2021, when then-President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus checks sent deficits, and then inflation, soaring. President Donald Trump does not have a global pandemic or a declared war to excuse this level of borrowing, and with our population aging, the deficit picture […]
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln Saturday after the ship had been docked in the Middle East for over 260 days since November. Centcom released a statement Saturday about the visit, stating Cooper, who oversees the war with Iran, visited the ship as part of a 10-day trip...
Seven years ago, the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act gave hardworking Americans and the businesses that employ them well-deserved relief, clearing a path for innovation, investment, and economic growth. However, several key provisions of the TCJA will expire unless Congress extends them before the end of next year. Since the TCJA provided […]
I never understood why parents in affluent suburbs with excellent public schools would opt for pricey private education. Even as my son entered kindergarten in 2021, when political and ideological battles were waged on the public education front, I didn’t consider it for our family. At the time, I had just finished paying for expensive, […]
President Joe Biden’s catch-and-release policies for illegal immigration that caused a historic invasion of the United States was the first scandal of his presidency, but it was his catastrophic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan that destroyed his public standing and pushed him permanently into disapproval. These pages noted at the time that Biden’s mental capacity was slipping and that his diminished ability to […]
Australia has passed ground-breaking legislation to outright ban social media for anyone under 16; how to actually enforce it, though, remains a mystery.
