As the philosopher/baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, it’s deja vu all over again. Student protesters are occupying the campuses of famed universities across the country. In New York, Columbia University protesters occupied administrative offices in Hamilton Hall and were cleared out by police, exactly 56 years to the day after student protesters occupied […]
Some threats simply beg to be turned into opportunities. Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi confirmed that his country’s air force intercepted several Iranian drones between April 13 and 14, helping defend against Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel. The military assistance by the Hashemite Kingdom followed a political decision to close […]
President Joe Biden is not working very hard to bring American hostages in Gaza back home, but he does want to bring in refugees from Gaza who are disproportionally supportive of terrorism. The Biden administration is floating the idea of accepting Gaza refugees, a process that would require collaboration with Egypt, which is not accepting […]
Despite the sheer craziness of the political and cultural landscape in recent months, one particularly nutty 2024 bingo-card item none of us expected began with the bizarre argument that the Nazis were somehow the victims of World War II. And now it’s morphed into the equally absurd claim that the Soviet Union was morally superior […]
Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, summarized the political career of Benjamin Disraeli, Britain’s great 19th century Conservative prime minister, as “failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete triumph.” There is something in this sequence that parallels President Joe Biden’s half-century in politics, although in his case ultimate and complete triumph applies only […]
Columbia University protestor Johannah King-Slutzky implied to the press that the illegal occupiers of Hamilton Hall were going to die of dehydration and starvation...
It is a step in the right direction that liberal columnists such as Catherine Rampell are not only acknowledging that birthrates are declining in the United States but also admitting it is a problem. Unfortunately, Rampell then reverts to fact-free blind partisanship by blaming the Republican Party for the phenomenon. “Americans aren’t having enough babies,” […]
There are many opinions to hold about the students and rabble-rousers camping out on college quads these days — and those occupying buildings and smashing windows. You may consider them antisemites, terrorist-apologists, violent thugs, spoiled brats, misguided idealists, angry young men and women, or anything else. Or maybe you have sympathy for them, because they […]
Supporting victims of violent crime, especially the youngest and most vulnerable of those victims, is among my most solemn responsibilities in the House of Representatives. For young survivors and their families, the criminal justice system can be an intimidating maze of questions, legal challenges, and hardships that, when added to the trauma of the underlying […]
We are three years into President Joe Biden‘s administration, and the crisis caused by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is only getting worse. It feels like there is no end in sight. Under Biden and Mayorkas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with whom I served will only be allowed to deport 125,000 illegal […]
Once upon a time, what was good for General Motors was good for the nation. In 1955, GM was the largest employer in the United States. GM employed almost 600,000 people. Today in the U.S., the company employs just 53,000 people. In 1955, GM had a 70% market share. In 2023, that share had fallen […]
People in developed nations take abundant electricity for granted. When asked where electricity comes from, most will point to their wall outlet. But many states in the U.S. are headed for a serious and prolonged shortage of electrical power not seen in decades, driven by rising demand from the artificial intelligence revolution and mandates to […]
When pressed, a not-so-small percentage of the students participating in the pro-Hamas rallies on college campuses have been unable to name either the river or the sea that border the area they demand be under Palestinian control. Still, others have bought into the lies spread by pro-Hamas groups that the atrocities inflicted upon innocent Israelis […]
In a manner not witnessed for more than five decades, America’s university campuses are being rocked by swelling protests against Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. But where Republican-led states have deployed police to tamp down some of the tumult, Democrat-led states appear willing to let angry youths take over campuses. Dozens of campuses nationwide […]
