Opinion

Visiting Beijing on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin proved that the mutually described “no-limits partnership” between Russia and China is flourishing. The two leaders did little to hide their disdain for their Western interlocutors. Chinese President Xi Jinping repudiated French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent and rather pathetic encouragement that Xi pressure Putin into ending the […]

University leaders who bend the knee to antisemitic mobs should be removed from their posts, as they are encouraging even worse behavior from protesters while allowing them to control university decisions. The California State University system has offered an example of what exactly should happen. Mike Lee, the president of Sonoma State University, announced that […]

Right-wing conspiracy theories are plaguing conservative and Republican discourse. One of the longest-running theories involves President Joe Biden being replaced at the last minute in a political switcheroo. It’s an oft-repeated fantasy that has zero chance of coming to fruition. Short of any legitimate health emergencies, or death, Biden is going to be the Democratic […]

The United Nations on May 8 shrank its casualty figures for Palestinian women and children by around 50% while recording no substantial change in the overall Gazan death toll in the war that has raged since the terrorist entity Hamas brutally massacred about 1,200 people and captured 243 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023. On May […]

The federal government is not the most effective steward of the taxpayer’s money, and there have been myriad investigations and reports about waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. But until the Government Accountability Office released its April 16 report, “Fraud Risk Management,” there had never been a comprehensive, government-wide review of fraud since the nation’s founding. No private entity could […]

The Israel Defense Force’s move last week into the southern Gaza city of Rafah has exploded in Egypt like a 2,000-pound bomb. Cairo has long been playing a double game, holding Hamas terrorists near while simultaneously trying to appear helpful to the United States and Israel. Israel taking control of Rafah threatens Egypt’s ability to […]

After enabling an anti-Israel campus occupation, Northwestern University surrendered to its pro-Hamas students this month. A handful of scholarships and professorships for Palestinian activists likely seemed a small price to pay to clean up the mess the administrators allowed students to make. But the leadership at Northwestern and other occupation-friendly universities haven’t the dimmest idea […]

The Democratic National Committee has decided to host its presidential nominating convention this year in Chicago, Illinois. The decision is puzzling. Illinois is a safe, blue state for Democrats, not having voted for a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988. In fact, Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor since William “Big Bill” […]

Like many people, each day my eyes lightly scan the “morning update” emails from the news organizations I subscribe to. But the first lines of the New York Times’s “The Morning” email written by David Leonhardt on May 3 hooked me: “Let me start with a disclaimer,” he wrote. “The subject of today’s newsletter will […]

For the Democrats, less may have been more.  Well aware that President Joe Biden’s disastrous policies have inflicted incalculable damage on the United States, that he is incapable of speaking without the aid of a teleprompter, and that his spavined physique screams weakness, party leaders made a calculated decision to use lawfare to defeat former […]

President Joe Biden bragged at the start of the year that inflation was coming down and it was lower than “any other major economy at the time.” While the first point was true — inflation was falling — it is no longer so, and the Federal Reserve’s battle to control price rises has backslid since. […]