A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
On May 29, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 428-3 to honor the 250th anniversary of American independence. Nobody voted against. Watching from the gallery was Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador who had spent the previous four months in an open, personal feud with the marshal who announced the result. Rules of professional diplomacy […]
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas should be commended for finally admitting under oath Wednesday, that the southern border is in “crisis.” Asked by Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), “Would you call it at a crisis at the southern border?” Mayorkas responded, “Yes, I would.” While this was not the first time that Mayorkas admitted […]
The passive relationship the Federal Reserve has with large fund investors, such as Vanguard and BlackRock, is no longer acceptable for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Director Jonathan McKernan. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported the FDIC’s plan to increase oversight of large asset managers. McKernan seeks to give the FDIC power to supervise large fund managers’ investment […]
The federal government increasingly looks like an Ivy League classroom, combining therapy for fragile souls with indoctrination into specious ideology. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the State Department, in which employees are encouraged to take courses in the name of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, or DEIA, that stress their differences, trauma, and […]
The House of Representatives is considering whether and how to reauthorize the U.S. person query protocols for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. FISA 702 authorizes the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to search the names of American residents against National Security Agency intercepts of foreign intelligence communications. It allows investigators […]
Days after the Israel Defense Forces accidentally fired on a convoy of workers from the World Central Kitchen who were distributing food in Gaza last week, killing seven, President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone. According to the White House readout of the call, Biden demanded that Israel “announce and […]
The adoption of diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies at the expense of profit generation has imposed an unnecessary tax on millions of people. Few, if any, shareholders vote to forgo returns to promote social or diversity objectives, yet that’s exactly what’s happening in boardrooms across the country. Business leaders across corporate America have been adopting […]
Time and time again, the Biden administration has colluded with foreign governments to tax and regulate American companies. Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s favorite unelected bureaucrat, was in Washington, D.C., this week to brag about her efforts to treat American companies as piggy banks and suffocate them with red tape. President Joe Biden’s lack of leadership enables […]
Federal agents raided homes last week in Miami and Los Angeles belonging to Sean Combs, the powerful rap mogul previously known as Puff Daddy, Diddy, and most recently, Brother Love. The raid came on the heels of several lawsuits filed against Combs by women in recent months for sexual assault and sex trafficking. Combs has […]
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden told a journalist that he was “considering” dropping charges against Julian Assange, the Australian hacker who’s facing a raft of Justice Department indictments. In February, Australia’s parliament passed a measure, with the support of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, calling for the return of the fugitive to his native country. The […]
Republican voters, we are told, increasingly support the idea of having an authoritarian president, by whom those telling us mean “Donald Trump.” But the same voices completely ignore how authoritarian President Joe Biden is, and how Democratic voters are fine with that. This week, Biden announced another round of unilateral college loan bailouts without authorization from […]
The city desperately needs more rental housing. Hundreds of obsolescent older office buildings stand near-empty. So why not use one problem to solve the...
