It’s hard to believe no one in the Pentagon anticipated this. It’s even harder to believe the U.S. has ‘few options’ to reopen the Strait, as CNN reported.
President Donald Trump attracted excited social media reactions on Thursday evening with the following post to his Truth Social network: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial […]
Recent articles by Marc Thiessen and Anne Applebaum have heavily criticized Kari Lake, the former Arizona GOP Senate candidate who is now CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. They say she has broken that agency. Thiessen, in particular, argues that Lake’s actions have greatly weakened U.S. messaging to the Iranian people amid looming […]
From figure skating to hockey to skiing, it has been a good few days for American patriotism on the global sports stage at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Thursday was a banner day for American gold, with the U.S. women’s hockey team winning in sudden-death overtime against Canada. After steamrolling all challengers (including Canada the first […]
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, found out on Thursday that President Donald Trump is giving the village $10 million for a Norfolk Southern train derailment that upended the town’s way of life three years ago. It was welcome news on an unseasonably warm and sunny February day. Trump announced that his […]
Nearly a year after President Donald Trump unilaterally imposed the steepest tariffs on American consumers in a century with his “Liberation Day” invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Supreme Court held that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs and remanded for further proceedings. In a 6-3 ruling, the majority […]
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. Feb. 20, 1776. In his General Orders, Gen. George Washington […]
IS TIME RUNNING OUT FOR SANCTUARY CITIES? In the end, the conflict between federal immigration authorities and protesters in Minneapolis boiled down to one fundamental policy question: Should sanctuary cities be allowed to exist? Should cities, counties, and states be allowed to prohibit their police from cooperating with the enforcement of federal immigration law, even as […]
The Department of War has teamed up with the Department of Energy to advance one of President Donald Trump‘s core missions, which is to unleash American energy dominance. In a historic effort to produce stability in a demanding energy environment, Trump is removing all roadblocks that have strangled ingenuity within the nuclear power community. Sunday, […]
It hit me in a flash last week as I listened to a professor explain why arguments that sound plausible can turn out to be false. The postliberals, the NatCons, the alt-rightists, the integralists, the Groypers — they all base their case on a fallacy. Philosophers call it “equivocation”, and it means using the same […]
“Now is the winter of our discontent made an inglorious bummer by this Duke of York.” My mangled version of the words that open Shakespeare’s tragedy, Richard III, might forgivably have been muttered crossly this week by King Charles III following the arrest of his younger brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew and Duke of […]
The Supreme Court faces a fateful decision in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. If it declines to take up the case and fails to slam the door on Boulder County’s audacious climate change lawsuit, the climate litigation free-for-all that will follow could cripple American energy and critically undermine our federal system. After law school, […]
Last weekend, former President Barack Obama acknowledged a blunt political reality: “The average person doesn’t want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown … and we’re not going to be able to generate support [for treatment] if we simply say, ‘It’s not their fault, they should be able to […]
