Opinion

New Congressional Budget Office projections for Social Security and Medicare ought to convince President Joe Biden and Congress to create a new commission on entitlement reform.

Philadelphia is experiencing a crime wave like no other in its over 300-year history. Theft, muggings, assaults, carjackings, and homicides are all plaguing the city's communities. And, while these stories continue to humiliate Philadelphia, Democratic government officials continue to sit idly by, silently giving their consent to the policies that have turned the city's jails into doors.

How did it come to pass that public employee unions, which scarcely existed 60 years ago, have come to run public schools and myriad state and local government agencies?

In the name of gender affirmation, prisons are putting men in women’s facilities and enabling rapists in the process. A slew of recent cases has either seen male rapists placed in women’s prisons or men convicted of other crimes placed into women’s prisons, who went on to rape thereafter, claiming they identified as women.

The controversy over the removal of Democrats from their committee assignments ought to be a cautionary tale for President Joe Biden’s party on how to handle Rep. George Santos (R-NY).

U.S. DISARMS ITSELF TO AID UKRAINE. The United States has shipped massive amounts of military aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. There has been bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for the aid, although some Republicans have questioned the price tag — $27.5 billion so far in military aid, or "security assistance" alone, which does not include tens of billions in financial, humanitarian, and other types of aid. Some GOP lawmakers have also expressed concern about the lack of safeguards in sending so much money to a notoriously corrupt country.

Should the Chinese Communist Party use the brutal force of the state to protect your children from bad cultural influences? Or should you be left to the wolves, trying to navigate the modern world without support?

Correcting weeks of hesitating delay and deceptive excuses, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States would provide 31 M1A2 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. He noted that this would allow Ukraine to form a new armored battalion. Alongside the 12 Challenger-2 tanks that the United Kingdom has already pledged to provide Ukraine, Biden said Europe would supply Ukraine with an additional two battalions worth of Leopard-2 tanks. In total, Ukraine is set to receive just over 100 of the most modern Western battle tanks. The first Leopard-2 tanks should have trained crews within eight weeks. Unfortunately, Germany says it will take at least three months for the first tanks to be delivered.

House Democrats may not like it, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has every good reason to deny Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) seats on the House Intelligence Committee.

Climate change is a real problem. So is depopulation. Conservative columnist Ross Douthat makes the case in the New York Times that one is worse than the other.

The horseshoe theory of political science holds that the radical Left and Right both tend to agree on obvious falsehoods — for example, the idiotic notion that capitalism has made us poorer. The latest result of this phenomenon is a new, imbecilic meme inverting this economic delusion, which both trad and tankie Twitter accounts alike are wholeheartedly embracing.

PITTSBURGH — Wednesday evening, people all across the world, mostly of Scots descent but also plenty who are not, will begin their evenings draped in plaid, addressing the haggis, which is brought out to the sound of bagpipes, and listening to those gathered recite the poetry of Robert Burns.

They think they are being clever. But they aren't.

The anti-corruption drive launched by Ukraine over the past few days is long overdue. But while positive, it will have little lasting effect unless Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's government maintains this action and targets midranking officials as well as those at the top.