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A Foolhardy Conflict with an Inoffensive Ally

President Trump’s tariffs aren’t popular, but he’s found a way to make them even less so.

Trump reportedly skipping ground zero for Pentagon 9/11 ceremony

President Trump will reportedly not travel to New York City for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Trump honors Artemis II crew that flew around the moon

President Trump is awarding the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of Artemis II, the first humans to travel near the moon in more than half a century.

Champagne socialism: Far-left movement brimming with affluent leaders

The leaders of America's socialist movement are calling for rent strikes, denouncing capitalism and pillorying the rich. Some of them are doing it from private beach clubs, luxury cars and million-dollar homes.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: No plans to campaign for James Talarico

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she won't campaign for her party's Texas Senate nominee, James Talarico, and that she doesn't believe Black voters are enthusiastic about him.

New York Times profiles Biden’s inner circle, omits Ron Klain’s lobbying work

Being a lobbyist for failed housing giant Fannie Mae seems like a relevant resume item for an intimate adviser of the president. Yet somehow, in a 2,500-word profile on Biden insiders the New York Times brands as “the strategist, the guru, and the confidant,” the word “lobbyist” never appears. Nor does the article discuss Ron […]

Biden’s Gaza pier is an abject failure

Choose your label to describe what’s become of President Joe Biden’s Gaza pier: Dumpster fire. Boondoggle. White elephant. Whatever you call it, the project is a bona fide failure. It seems destined to be a textbook example of what happens when the political imperative to “do something” overwhelms serious planning.  The latest news is that […]

Biden administration’s misguided AI antitrust push endangers US innovation

The field of artificial intelligence is already having a positive impact in a multitude of ways on our daily lives and on America’s economy, health, welfare, and national security. AI is providing earlier detection and treatment of cancers, strokes, heart disease, sepsis, and many of our most feared and costly health problems. It is helping […]

Trump and Biden’s faceoff in Atlanta could be the most consequential debate in political history

Former President Donald Trump told supporters last week that he will be facing three opponents at the debate: President Joe Biden and two of CNN’s most partisan hosts, moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.  The stakes are high for both Biden and Trump at Thursday night’s showdown in Atlanta. With approximately 20% of voters still […]

What next for Israel and Gaza?

Israel’s politics have been rent by controversy over the Gaza Strip’s future after the war with Hamas ends. The superficially easy approach, espoused by opposition leader and former War Cabinet member Benny Gantz, is to announce a post-conflict governance plan for Gaza before hostilities conclude. The Biden administration supports this view, ostensibly to minimize risk […]

Fairfax County Public Schools leadership set to defy parents in its sex education program

This Thursday, the Fairfax County School Board is set to vote on controversial changes to the district’s sex education curriculum. The vote likely will include whether to start instruction on gender ideology in elementary school, as recommended by the district’s ideologically homogeneous Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee. As a strategy, the district’s leadership is […]

Russia’s escalation theatrics are designed to manipulate Americans

Four civilians were reported killed in an explosion on a Crimean beach on Sunday. Russia says that Ukraine launched a U.S.-provided ATACMS ballistic missile at the beachgoers. Russia is using the deaths to increase fears of a possible U.S.-Russian conflagration. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Monday that the “involvement of the United States, […]

Biden’s border budget buster

The Congressional Budget Office has underestimated Medicaid spending by billions of dollars every year for some time now and a new law that reduced illegal immigration in Florida may explain why. Since 2000, the CBO has underestimated an average of $15 billion a year of Medicaid spending, while often overestimating Social Security and Medicare spending. […]

Don’t fall for Putin’s Crimea cries — he’s coldly preying on Biden’s escalation fears

It's projection at its absolute worst as the Kremlin cries foul over Sevastopol strike after 852 days of committing war crimes in Ukraine.

Hochul needs to call the bluff of the MTA fearmongers — and fully kill congestion pricing

Many anti-congestion-pricing advocates are ripping the MTA for issuing stop work orders on non-essential projects, calling it a scare tactic to pressure Gov. Kathy...

Bowman’s vulgar, profane political rally: Letters to the Editor — June 25, 2024

The Issue: Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s profanity-laced speech at his Saturday re-election rally in The Bronx. Is there any better way for people to know...

Alleged rape victim of Alon and Oren Alexander pledges to give any damages to sexual assault victims

One of the women who claims that she was drugged and raped by twin real estate heirs Alon and Oren Alexander in the Hamptons...

You know why Justin Timberlake is ‘hard to love’? Because he refuses to apologize

We've heard not a peep from him about being taken downtown by a babyface copper who had no idea he was arresting the very...

UFT boss Michael Mulgrew threatens to blow $600 million hole in NYC finances

If United Federation of Teachers boss Michael Mulgrew and the Municipal Labor Committee back out of their Medicare Advantage deal with the city, costing...

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