The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds. One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian […]
Republican politicians expressed outrage after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to laugh on camera during a memorial for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Most people are not partisans in the culture wars and are, in fact, put off by them. For that reason, the loser in most culture wars is whoever looks like the aggressor. And for that reason, the major left-leaning media often go into contortions to pretend conservatives are the aggressors in the culture wars.
There is little that the Biden administration, or any administration, can do to stop the Chinese Communist Party from stifling dissent inside China. It is equally difficult to stop Chinese officials from harassing and detaining dissenters in other countries, but the fact that they continue to do so is considerably more disturbing.
In the closing address at last month’s Summit for Democracy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken proclaimed, “President Biden has said, democracy doesn’t happen by...
In 2018, DeSantis won Florida's governor’s race with “unintended assistance from two Democratic billionaires, Tom Steyer and George Soros,” grumbles The Liberal Patriot.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, claimed in USA Today that “MAGA Republicans” are destroying public schools and it’s up to...
Increasingly paranoid about dominating its Asia-Pacific neighbors, China is again unleashing its "wolf warrior" diplomatic strategy. Centered on aggressive rebuttals of what Beijing regards as affronts to its core interests, the wolf warrior strategy has been relatively dormant over the past 18 months. Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to recognize that it was doing more harm than good.
The African nation of Sudan is no stranger to conflict. Since Sudan declared independence from the U.K. and Egypt in 1956, there have been too many insurgencies and civil conflicts to count. One of the deadliest ended in 2005, when Khartoum signed a deal with Sudan’s People Liberation Movement/Army to grant the South Sudanese the ability to secede and create their own state. The war in Darfur in the early 2000s claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and turned former Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan al Bashir into an international outcast.
