Karl Marx said that history repeats twice: “he first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." He may as well have been describing the socialist campaign of Nithya...
The Biden administration finalized a rule last month allowing states to mandate that most individual and small-group health plans, including those for sale on Obamacare‘s exchanges, cover adult dental services. Mandating coverage of dental benefits may be politically appealing. But it will end up leaving a bitter taste in people’s mouths. Mandates cost money. Implementing this one […]
Historically, our nation has found ways to adapt and overcome crises — for the betterment of our society and its people. Yet one such crisis remains and continues to grow, which now directly affects more than 20% of our adult population. As a society, we have an obligation to address the mental health and substance […]
Young people are the future — or so we hear when discussing education and considering what the country will look like in 40 or 50 years. The future has not looked bright. The last couple of months witnessed campus protests that displayed both intellectual vacuity and moral turpitude. Too many young adults attending our elite […]
In April, a spokeswoman for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign wrote an email to the Washington Post that “Mr. Kennedy does not want to add fuel to the fire” in relation to abortion because he considers it a “fundamentally divisive” issue. Instead, she wrote, the campaign seeks to emphasize more unifying topics, […]
After months of mounting tension, the International Criminal Court in The Hague announced the filing of arrest warrant requests relating to the war in Gaza — or as the ICC revealingly puts it, “the Situation in the State of Palestine.” The court seeks the arrest of Hamas leadership for a long list of war crimes, but […]
During a 1971 trip to Israel, then-future Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke met with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, a meeting he described as a “life-changing event.” He said Israel was “an inspiration, a small lone democracy in the Middle East.” Upon his return, he warned, “If the bell tolls for Israel, it won’t just […]
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, called on Monday for the arrest of Israel’s prime minister for war crimes. In doing so, he hammered another nail into the coffin of the ICC, which predictably has become a force not for a better world but for malevolent international apparatchiks to wield as a weapon against Western-oriented liberal democracies. […]
BRAD SMITH: WHAT I WOULD HAVE TOLD THE TRUMP JURY. In recent days, it has become clear that the Trump trial, in which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeks to imprison former President Donald Trump for a maximum of 136 years over allegedly false bookkeeping, will somehow come down to federal campaign finance law. In this […]
“The stars will never be won by little minds,” observed the great science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein. If we aren’t careful, though, they just might...
The International Criminal Court proved itself the dangerous joke it is Monday by seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense...
