1979—Taking advantage of its (and the House’s) massive increase in the number of judgeships a year earlier, the Democrat-controlled Senate confirms on a single day 25...
In the south transept of Westminster Abbey, touched by the jeweled light of a rose window, is Poets’ Corner. Geoffrey Chaucer was buried here in 1400 — not because he wrote The Canterbury Tales, but because he was a royal official. Two centuries later, the great Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser asked to be interred next […]
“I hope your venue gets firebombed.” That’s a real comment from a leftist reacting to the Massachusetts lesbian bar, Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, dropping its mask mandate — for just one night per week — in an effort to increase business. Here’s another: “People like you kill disabled people in the name of […]
Fiction frequently anticipates friction. Fauda’s fifth season treats the French-Hamas nexus in Marseille as an operational fact, mirroring a grim reality. This TV show previously presaged the Oct. 7, 2023, tunnel raid — a scenario its own writers initially discarded as too far-fetched for television. My recent analysis for these pages exposed this exact channel: […]
On Tuesday, at U.N. headquarters, President Donald Trump and the leaders of Denmark and Greenland signed a security agreement. Trump says it gives Washington “permanent control over security, and all other needs” in Greenland, and calls it an “Infinite Life” agreement. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says the agreement recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity […]