The Iran war has turned into a political disaster for President Donald Trump. The conflict was never popular to begin with, and predictably, support for it has dropped over time. Eighty percent of Americans favor ending the war as quickly as possible. Despite an overwhelming victory on the battlefield, the president and his negotiators pivoted […]
Few public policy issues divide Americans as deeply as laws regulating gun ownership or the recreational use of marijuana. Yet, last week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani, a case in which unlawful drug use collided with the right to keep and bear arms. This rare showing of unity […]
President Donald Trump is presenting the Iran negotiations as proof that U.S. and Israeli military pressure worked. In contrast, Iran is leveraging its survival of that military campaign, claiming it entered negotiations on its own terms. Iran’s contention is the more accurate one. The truth? The Trump administration used force against Iran, raised expectations of […]
Mikhail Gorbachev never intended to liquidate the Soviet empire. Perestroika and glasnost were meant to rescue a bankrupt ideology and a moribund economy after the West’s relentless pressure exposed communism’s hollowness. Instead, they hastened the empire’s unraveling. The system collapsed not because Gorbachev hated it, but because his reforms could not save what ideology and […]
A flu outbreak has torn through the basic training wing at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, sickening more than 220 recruits and raising hard questions about War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision, less than two months earlier, to drop the requirement that all troops get a flu shot. The outbreak hit the 37th Training […]
PITTSBURGH — Supporters of Iran’s leadership change gathered Sunday at the Cathedral of Learning to celebrate the development, drawing a sharp contrast with protesters who demonstrated in the city earlier this week. The mood was celebratory with families who fled Iran during the Islamic Revolution saying they looked forward to returning soon to their home […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. March 3, 1776 At dawn, per the orders of Gen. […]
President Donald Trump badly dishonored the United Kingdom with his recent gross disregard for British military sacrifices in Afghanistan. His threats to America’s NATO ally Denmark over its Greenland territory also weakened his standing even with the best U.S. allies. Still, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has a growing problem. Starmer is deeply unpopular with his […]
Democrats, isolationists, and other Israel obsessives like to blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for all the wars of the Middle East. They found a new opening for their hobby horse yesterday with an out-of-context snippet from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio told […]
California Democrats view parents as more likely to be abusers than caretakers and, thus, think schools should be able to secretly transition students without their parents’ knowledge. It should not be overlooked that the Supreme Court itself has had to step in to address this insane view. The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a California […]
The Trump administration is framing the killing of cartel leader “El Mencho” as a major victory in the war on drugs. Decades of drug enforcement tells another story. Within hours of El Mencho’s death, affiliates set fires to banks and storefronts and blocked major highways across roughly 20 Mexican states, demonstrating continued operational reach as authorities […]
Iranian drones and missiles have been slamming into cities across the Middle East for three days. Gulf states with some of the best air defense arsenals are discovering the difficulty in dealing with cheap, slow drones arriving in waves. A single THAAD anti-ballistic missile interceptor costs $13 million. The Shahed drone costs roughly $20,000. Ukraine […]
The Constitution clearly grants Congress, not the president, the power to declare war. Thus, most defenders of President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war against Iran point to the 1973 War Powers Resolution and claim the law allows the president to wage a war for 60 days without any congressional approval. Here’s a Republican member of Congress […]
TRUMP, FOREVER WARS, AND IRAQ SYNDROME. For many years in the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any proposed U.S. military action without seeing visions of a Vietnam-style quagmire in which American troops would […]
