Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, our Founding Fathers created a new nation, as President Abraham Lincoln put it, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This Memorial Day, we should remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and made its unlikely existence possible. America’s success wasn’t […]
THE IRAN TALKS: HOW THE ADMINISTRATION SEES THINGS NOW. In the last couple of days the Iran war has been going through another one of the up-and-down news cycles — in which some sort of resolution seems imminent and then not so imminent — that have become a familiar story. In this case, President Trump, who […]
A former adviser to President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic said Sunday that the U.S. is equipped to handle an Ebola outbreak. “The U.S. right now does not have a confirmed head of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], it does not have a confirmed head of the [Food and Drug Administration (FDA)],...
Secret Service Director Sean Curran said Sunday that his thoughts were with the bystander shot amid an exchange of gunfire between officers and a gunman near the White House on Saturday. "I want to recognize the quick and decisive response demonstrated by our Secret Service police officers last night in confronting an armed gunman. Their...
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, as per their approach to the Agency for International Development, should look to phase out public-housing “projects”...
Donald Trump “single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years” at his press conference on Gaza, applauds Tablet’s Lee Smith.
PITTSBURGH — President Donald Trump said Friday that Nippon Steel will drop its $14.1 billion bid to acquire U.S. Steel and instead invest heavily in the iconic American company without taking a majority stake. Nippon Steel “is going to be doing something very exciting about US Steel,” Trump said with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba […]
To some, even the simplest proposals for family formation are contemptible. A hyperfocus on gender and race takes from the fact that genuine family-first approaches have these things in mind. But that slips past critics who read only prejudice into pro-family guidelines. Such is the case with a new memorandum from the Transportation Department, titled […]
The federal government is very good at creating acronyms. However, what the federal government is terrible at doing is accounting for the money it spends. Despite spending nearly $2 billion on government-spending watchdog alphabet agencies, such as the OIG, or Office of the Inspector General, and GAO, or the Government Accountability Office, it took President […]
After such an astounding defeat in November, one might expect the Democratic Party to reflect and regroup. Based on what Democrats have offered up in terms of messaging and personnel since the election and inauguration, they haven’t learned a thing. And a victorious Republican Party is just fine with that. Last week, gun control activist and […]
The first three weeks of the Trump administration have brought a flurry of executive policymaking, but also three controversies about Christian teaching and its place in government. The first incident took place at the Washington National Cathedral the day after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term. There the Right Rev. Mariann […]
