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 […]
For the second month in a row, consumer price index inflation has accelerated, this time from 3.2% over the year ending in February to 3.5% over the year ending in March, blowing past economist expectations. Core CPI, which was expected to fall last month, instead held constant at 3.8%, nearly twice the Federal Reserve‘s maximum […]
In the latest in a long line of cynical, self-serving political moves, the Biden regime has issued a new rule aimed at immunizing the so-called “deep state” against future Republican presidential administrations. The rule, issued by the Office of Personnel Management, states that career bureaucrats have protected status that cannot be revoked, making it difficult for […]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may have an abysmal approval rating back home, but he’s the man of the hour in Washington. The Japanese premier is spending a few days in Washington for talks with President Joe Biden at the White House, leading up to the first trilateral summit between the United States, Japan, and the Philippines […]
This weekend, as we sat on the sidelines of our children’s lacrosse game, a mother told me about an incident at her son’s Fairfax County public school. When her mother, the student’s grandmother, went into his school late to sign in her grandson following his doctor’s appointment, the administrative assistant looked at her doubtingly and […]
The Navy doesn’t have nearly enough ships and submarines to deter or defeat China in war. It also apparently lacks the leadership to fix this dire problem. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from the Navy’s cancellation of a traditional briefing for journalists at its annual shipbuilding trade show. According to reports, […]
A recent Center of Immigration Studies report uncovered that the Department of Homeland Security has covertly approved the flights of tens of thousands of...
Pope Francis offered one of the most clear-cut moral teachings of his pontificate Monday when the Vatican issued a document condemning gender theory, sex-change procedures, and surrogacy as morally abominable practices. The document issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, Dignitas Infinita, may be a moral directive to the members of the […]
