HOOVERSVILLE, Pennsylvania — If you are a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, it still is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country and see an oversized, cheery, red billboard sitting along U.S. 30 reading “VOTE REPUBLICAN.” However, it is a reminder of how much the people who […]
President Joe Biden has called on Israel to adopt an immediate ceasefire with Hamas. In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden warned of other undefined U.S. policy shifts absent Israeli policy changes following its accidental killing of seven aid workers on Monday. Putting those prospective policy shifts to one side, […]
When in doubt, blame businesses for closing their doors instead of the crime that has made it unsustainable for them to operate. San Francisco might even do you one better: force the businesses to stay open anyway. One of the 11 members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is floating reviving a vetoed 1984 law […]
Belatedly I noticed that today is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, so I write more in haste (to not miss the occasion) than in exhaustively researched reflection. It takes no exhaustive research, though, for any reasonable, freedom-loving human to be thankful for NATO’s salutary existence and to be […]
Iranian diplomats reacted furiously to Monday’s Israeli airstrike on a building adjacent to Iran’s consulate in Syria. The Biden administration appears almost as peeved. State Department officials hint that Israel gave the United States very little notice of the airstrike. This reticence indicates that senior Israeli military officials no longer trust the White House to […]
Eva Edl knows a thing or two about wrongful imprisonment. In the aftermath of World War II, she escaped a communist concentration camp in Yugoslavia before making her way to the freedom promised in the United States. But now 87 years old, Edl is facing up to six months in prison in her adopted country […]
Children are being coerced into surgically destroying themselves when they would otherwise move on from their angsty LGBT phases. A long-term study done in the Netherlands showed that over time, children grow out of their gender confusion. The study was conducted over 25 years using 2,772 11-year-olds from the general population. They were asked periodically […]
President Joe Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas doesn’t make him “look weak.” His deference to anti-Israel, pro-terrorist voters and activists makes him, and America’s voice, actually weak. Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for former President Barack Obama who now works in liberal media, said that Biden’s supposed private outrage at an […]
When you view everything in life through narratives of “oppression,” you end up accusing black families of being tokens for wanting their children to succeed. Such is the case in Seattle, where Seattle Public Schools is eliminating its Highly Capable Cohort program, preventing students from taking advanced courses. SPS is doing this because, of course, […]
For all the hype about President Joe Biden‘s supposed election year comeback, the president’s rebound is not really reflected in the polls. FiveThirtyEight’s expert aggregation shows the Democrat‘s net approval rating rising from a nadir of a negative 18.2 a month ago to a negative 15.9 as of Thursday. While former President Donald Trump‘s general […]
Our allies in the Pacific are working with us in preparation for war as China expands its aggression toward other nations. Adm. John Aquilino, U.S. Navy commander and head of the Indo-Pacific forces, informed a House committee that if any direct action by China resulted in the death of a Filipino service member, then the […]
Japan will handle immigration in a practical and effective way that deters unruly behavior and maintains national identity while profiting from foreign labor. On Friday, its government expanded the nation’s visa program to include four more industries. It also plans to bring in 820,000 foreign workers over the next five years, double what was predicted […]
The spirit of our age elevates autonomy over all other goods, so it rejects commitment. We are increasingly transactional rather than relational. Marriage and parenthood are on the decline because marriage and parenthood involve giving up autonomy and entering into lifelong committed relationships. In a lifelong committed relationship, you make yourself vulnerable to the other […]
