President Donald Trump has delivered the clearest signal yet: no Iran deal unless the remaining moderate Sunni Camp members finally join the Abraham Accords. This linkage marks a sharp departure from past U.S. diplomacy, which rewarded regional partners’ inaction. These governments have long demanded American protection while refusing to normalize relations with the U.S.’s biggest […]
Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited San Simeon, William Randolph Hearst’s epic mansion. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and the uniformed guide struck me as knowledgeable, competent, and […]
Ten years ago, President Donald Trump put Europe on notice, telling them the status quo on defense spending was unsustainable — and that America would not continue to shoulder the cost of keeping the European Union safe. Trump was right, but leaders like German Chancellor Olaf Scholz did not want to listen. Only after Russia’s […]
Abdul El Sayed, a progressive Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, told an audience that he “struggles” to answer questions about whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. My first reaction to people who question whether Israel has “a right to exist” is usually, “Go pound sand.” Israel is a nuclear power with one […]
On the basis that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, Christopher Nolan’s movie, The Odyssey, is having a second helping of great notoriety this week. It comes courtesy of an admission from actress Lupita Nyong’o, who conceded that until she was cast to play Helen of Troy, she had never heard of Homer’s great […]
The results are in from the highly anticipated Texas Senate Republican primary runoff between state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). And the winner is … James Talarico! Talarico, the Democratic nominee, wasted no time after Trump-endorsed Paxton handily defeated incumbent Cornyn. He posted Paxton’s mugshot with a caption slamming the Texas […]
As the European Union attempts to export its heavy-handed regulatory bureaucracy across the globe, Chinese President Xi Jinping told it no. These sweeping EU mandates, known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, are blatant attempts by failed social engineers in Brussels to regulate companies into oblivion. President Donald […]
The University of Pennsylvania has spent months claiming it is serious about confronting antisemitism, restoring trust, and repairing the damage caused by campus unrest after Oct. 7, 2023. Yet, Penn has apparently now granted tenure to Sukaina Hirji, whose public activism sits at the center of the very crisis the university claims it is trying […]
Gen. George Washington remains in Philadelphia to continue his meetings with the Second Continental Congress. Their focus is on defending New York City and assisting with the struggling situation in Canada. Washington witnesses an emerging development in Congress as Virginia delegates, acting under instructions from the Virginia Convention, present resolutions calling for independence from England. […]
