Opinion

THE UNKNOWN DARLINE GRAHAM. South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster took very little time to choose Darline Graham, the sister of Sen. Lindsey Graham, to serve the last few months of the late senator’s term.  “Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed,” McMaster said in an announcement ceremony less than 48 hours after […]

Wars remake war. New weaponry, new tactics, new strategy time and again produce results no one predicted or thought possible.  Revolutionary France’s levée en masse and Napoleon’s bold attacks prevailed over staid 18th-century siege warfare and subdued all Europe. The aggressive assaults produced horrendous casualties but were unable to move the Western Front trenches more […]

Mike Rowe said that the shift in how Americans think about vocational work has been both quixotic and an overnight success for the man who has been an evangelist for the trades for over 15 years. “Who was it? Hemingway? I forget who said it, but things happen very slowly and then suddenly,” he says […]

Even in Texas, career criminals are allowed to roam free up to the point that they kill someone, proving that there needs to be a nationwide crackdown on crime to counter the national attitude shift toward criminal justice reform around 2018. Hannah Rapp, a 26-year-old rising featherweight boxer, was killed while cycling with her boyfriend […]

As a rule, reports by Washington, D.C.’s various bureaucracies are often meant to be written, not read. Many are perfunctory. To the extent they contain revelations, they are often watered down or hidden in the worst type of bureaucratic prose. But the State Department’s new report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” should be […]

Cars operate mostly on public roads, and they are dangerous: Cars are massive machines that move at high velocity, and they result in more than 40,000 deaths a year. For these reasons, cars are naturally very regulated. Self-driving cars are just coming onto the market in significant numbers, so the regulatory framework will have to […]

After yet another attack on ICE facilities and personnel Monday, a CNN panel blamed President Donald Trump’s “politically violent rhetoric,” showing how delusional some of the left-wing pundits really are. Around 8:30 a.m. yesterday in New York City, a man who was later identified as 43-year-old Andrew Arrabaca allegedly began an attack outside 26 Federal […]

The United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has appointed his key Cabinet ministers. Unlike in the United States, U.K. Cabinet ministers do not require legislative confirmation, so they enter office immediately. Burnham’s appointments suggest he is likely to take a bolder stance on defense spending but also double down on his predecessor Keir Starmer’s […]

During the Bush and Obama years, it was absolutely essential to the liberals’ and Democrats’ self-image that they were the scourges of the special interests, and that the Right and the Republicans were the toadies of Big Business. This was hogwash — both parties were the parties of Big Business. Liberals toned down this line […]

Doctors do not have to be apolitical. They have to know when politics must stop. A physician may vote, protest, write, argue, and hold strong views about Israel, Gaza, race, immigration, abortion, climate change, or any other public controversy. Doctors are citizens. Medical students are citizens. Nurses, residents, and faculty members are citizens. But the […]

There was a time when the word “genocide” stopped a conversation cold. Now, it’s a talking point — flung at whatever country the progressive Left wants to tar this week. The word was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer who lost 49 members of his family to the Holocaust, including his […]