A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
On May 29, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 428-3 to honor the 250th anniversary of American independence. Nobody voted against. Watching from the gallery was Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador who had spent the previous four months in an open, personal feud with the marshal who announced the result. Rules of professional diplomacy […]
Today’s Democrats hate President Donald Trump so much that they’re willing to abandon long-held positions and twist themselves into pretzels in their determination to defeat him. Take, for example, the case of Virginia’s current redistricting referendum. Democrats in the Old Dominion, empowered by their victories in last fall’s off-year election, are raising and spending tens […]
Congressional budget reconciliation proved an effective vehicle to achieve a first-of-its-kind victory for taxpayers in restricting the eligibility of large abortion providers to receive Medicaid reimbursements. Even so, these defunding provisions are set to expire July 4 if House Republicans do not commit to a second reconciliation. Leadership on Capitol Hill is limited to reconciliation as the sole path to further defunding, at least […]
If President Donald Trump backs down at this point in the war, it will leave the Gulf States to face a more radicalized and dangerous Iran seeking to impose its will on the Muslim world. After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Osama bin Laden offered to defend Saudi Arabia using his network of jihadist […]
Medicare and Medicaid will devour more than a third of federal government spending within a decade. Republicans take a beating every time they try to slow that growth, with Democrats remaining eager to paint the GOP as the party of throwing granny off a cliff. But there is a way out of this broken cycle. […]
Wisely sensing a political opening with gasoline prices up by more than $1 per gallon since the start of the Iran war, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlined an energy agenda that Democrats would pursue in 2027 should they win the congressional elections this November. Unfortunately, his speech revealed Democrats to have learned nothing […]
Democrats now risk a midterm-elections fiasco if they can’t let go of their anti-ICE obsession, and their related insistence on protecting even violent-criminal illegal...
