Everything alive’s had a documentary — except for maybe two poodles traveling in a camper outside Yosemite. Comes now Liza Minnelli. Whom everybody loves, probably even Putin.
QUICK TURNAROUND: TRUMP SHORT-CIRCUITS FUNDING CONTROVERSY. The flap over the Trump White House’s temporary freeze on some discretionary federal funding was the first controversy of the second Trump administration that reminded observers of the early days of the first Trump administration. The new White House issued a wide-ranging directive without fully detailing what it would and […]
Among the executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one that established an end to the practice of birthright citizenship. “The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” the order said. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright […]
It was odd watching Senate Republicans trying their best to put an unhinged leftist like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into a position of power. Perhaps the only thing odder was watching Democrats doing their best to stop them. But nowadays, our principles hinge on the whims of one man. Kennedy, of course, would have garnered […]
Move fast and break things. That’s the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term. That makes a certain sense. In a largely successful society, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be […]
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley undermined his position and the U.S. military by his partisan engagement with the media. Milley should have resigned. The performance of former U.S. Central Command commanding officer Gen. Kenneth McKenzie was similarly poor. Responsible for supervising the disastrous August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, McKenzie then […]
