A wife desperate to bring her husband home after two-plus years of wrongful detainment in Afghanistan has flown to Mar-a-Lago to implore President-elect Trump to take up her case.
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was reelected as speaker of the House on Friday during the first round of voting, but not without some objections from some House Republicans. Three Republicans initially voted against Johnson as House speaker for the 119th Congress. One of the votes against the Louisiana congressman, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), […]
In Joseph Heller’s novel, Catch-22, Capt. John Yossarian, a World War II airman stationed near Rome, gets frustrated over the practice of the military police who cite a rule called Catch-22 whenever they want to arrest someone. “Did they show it to you?” he shouts at an elderly Italian woman who witnessed the police take […]
In a parting gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden appears set to restrict offshore oil and gas development further. It’s a boon to Putin. The Russian leader hopes to undermine the Western alliance structure and associated support for Ukraine by relying on the frustration of European populations at their soaring energy prices. […]
If out-of-touch corporations feel the need to issue unnecessary statements about terrorist attacks, the least they could do is abandon the mealy-mouthed progressive public relations buzzwords and actually condemn terrorism in some fashion. The terrorist truck attack that killed at least 15 people on Wednesday was committed by a man who had announced his support […]
Do you want your child to grow up to be Zack or Slater from Saved by the Bell, or do you want him to grow up to be like Screech? For the past week, this debate has raged on after the future Department of Government Efficiency Co-Chairman Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X an argument for […]
Crime after crime characterized the last few weeks of 2024. And it would be mental gymnastics to read about the recent chaos without considering America’s anti-life culture. We see it in the choices that dominate society: People are absorbed by unrealities, such as artificial intelligence and social media, marriage rates are at record lows, and […]
As the 119th U.S. Congress begins its term Friday, the country finds itself on the brink of historical, positive change — if the Republicans voted into leadership can uphold their campaign promises. They were elected to eradicate the bureaucratic failures of the last four years, govern, and put the people first. It is now up […]
Not long ago, a Texas native named Shamsud-Din Jabbar pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group on Facebook. Now, perhaps if he had been an election-denying vaccine skeptic, Jabbar might have gotten himself noticed by law enforcement. Instead, Jabbar was free to ram his rented Ford pick-up truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in […]
With any luck, the recent grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was destroyed by a devastating fire in 2019, will be looked back upon as the dawn of the Western revival. In early December, leaders from around the world attended the first Mass in the famous gothic church in five years, […]
Now that departing President Joe Biden has outlived his usefulness to the Left, there is a new willingness to concede the press dropped the ball in assessing his ability to seek reelection and then serve a second term that would last until he was 86 years old. “I thought Joe Biden was going to prove […]
As President-elect Donald Trump expresses his support for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), our nation faces a bigger problem at stake for Republicans and for the United States in 2025 — the decision of whether our representatives will unify to help all Americans. What’s the difference between a unified GOP House and one where members […]
Those of us with friends and families spent the end of 2024 celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Advent of the New Year. The internet’s most miserable misanthropes closed out the holiday season raging against the nation’s H-1B visa program. They’re mad about the program, which aims to bring foreign workers to the U.S. for skilled […]
There are many commendable adaptations of Charles Dickens‘s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, but if your family is anything like mine, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the version that gets watched by the entire extended family every year. It’s the little things that make the Muppet version a crowd favorite. Everyone has their favorite scene. […]
