The very worst aspect of the reignited Jeffrey Epstein saga, followed closely by the resurgence of Russiagate, is that we’d finally gotten the best version of President Donald Trump. The historically successful Iran strikes and passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act marked the emergence of a self-actualized president. The brash and bawdy showman […]
IN UGLY DEMOCRATIC FEUD, BOTH SIDES DESERVE TO LOSE. Are Republicans taking pleasure in the current feud between Bidenworld and some pillars of the Democratic Party? Yes, they are. But not a joke, as former President Joe Biden would say: The fight is worth noting because it shines a light on the continuing bitterness in the […]
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts may already be the reigning Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, but according to Good Morning Football host Kyle Brandt, his next season just might be his best — all because Hurts was one of many NFL athletes who got married this offseason. “So many players got married this offseason,” said […]
The recent release of documents on the Donald Trump-Russia hoax makes plainer than ever the damage former President Barack Obama has inflicted on our democracy. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred the matter to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecutions because, she says, “there is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and […]
ADEN, Yemen — When the war on the Houthis erupted, Saudi Arabia was its front line. The United States saw Saudi Arabia as its ally. Even President Barack Obama supported Saudi efforts, providing U.S. intelligence and aerial refueling to support Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign. As the threats from Yemen grew, Saudi Arabia and the United […]
Text message scams are skyrocketing, and the federal government is finally starting to do something about it. As a former Attorney General for Virginia, I can tell you that when scammers are working outside of a local area, nationally or internationally, in this case, state and local officials don’t have the jurisdiction to do anything […]
As the Pakistani government has removed 300,000 Afghans from its borders since Jan. 1, U.S. allies are increasingly among those being returned to their homeland. This week, two U.S. nonprofits reported that six Afghans in U.S. processing pipelines were deported in a single 24-hour period. Since the fall of the Afghan government in August 2021, […]
In April, China restricted exports of crucial rare earth elements and magnets, which are used in everything from fighter jets and submarines to missile systems and drones. President Donald Trump rightly drew a sharp line on China’s aggressive moves, issuing an executive order designed to boost production of critical minerals here in the United States. […]
Before the sexual-assault claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh totally fell apart, one of the knocks on him, wielded almost as evidence of his guilt, was that he went to an all-boys school. When NPR set out last decade to define a “bro” (“a specific kind of fratty masculinity”), one of the criteria was a tendency […]
California is not exactly a shining beacon of how the criminal justice system should operate. Believe it or not, the state can always come up with ways to make things worse. The California legislature is pushing ahead with a bill that would allow cities to fine businesses up to $650 for the return of shopping […]
The July heat wrapped Mar-a-Lago in a sultry haze, palm trees sagging under the weight of a Florida evening. Inside a briefing room, President Donald Trump faced screens flashing with X posts and cable news tickers, all dominated by the relentless specter of Jeffrey Epstein. Newly unsealed documents — birthday letters, ’90s photos, and whispers […]
If you don’t like Columbia University’s principles, it has others. For decades, Columbia rejected the evidence of its political extremism as a conservative smear job and said academic freedom was priceless. But when the Trump administration pressed the university to follow the law, its professors folded. The price of academic freedom turns out to be […]
Ed Feulner, who died on July 18, was a big man in every sense. Tall and bulky, he had a largeness of spirit, a generosity of soul, and his ambitions were commensurately vast. When he started running the Heritage Foundation in the early 1970s, it had nine employees. Now it has 300, half a million […]
The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he’s talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the illegal immigrants responsible for cleaning his post-bender hotel rooms, the “f***ing dictator thug” Donald Trump, and his father’s entire campaign staff, Hunter Biden only finally found peace when […]
