President Donald Trump and the Democrats are fighting over the national flag, America’s preeminent patriotic symbol. Democrats know it’s a problem that they’re accurately seen as often being anti-American in their policies (e.g., mass illegal immigration) and worldview (e.g., shouting that the United States is irredeemably racist). So on flag day, they handed out little […]
By targeting senior Iranian government and military officials, eliminating top nuclear scientists, and crippling critical components of the regime’s nuclear weapons infrastructure, Israel has forced the mullahs into a position they likely never imagined possible before the strikes. Through superior intelligence gathering and a meticulously executed military strategy, Israel has dealt a catastrophic blow to […]
The first American casualty of the Israel-Iran conflict was Tucker Carlson. “The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans,” Carlson said on June 7. The Tehran Times, which calls itself the “voice of the Islamic Revolution,” praised Carlson’s acuity and agreed that American foreign policy is controlled by Fox News’s Mark Levin. […]
You may have seen the headlines recently: “Social Security, Medicare to Run Short of Funds in 2023, Trustees Say.” Last year, the date was 2034, so doomsday is getting closer. However, beneath those headlines simmers a more chronic problem. Uncle Sam’s long-term diagnosis for the health of Social Security relies on a completely unreasonable assumption […]
Ben Wattenberg died 10 years ago this month, but his legacy still looms large. Wattenberg, a pundit, demographer, and political operative, reshaped Washington and America through his farsighted thinking and writing. He constantly told his once beloved Democrats to stop drifting further and further to the left. They just as steadfastly refused to listen, with […]
“There’s no playbook” on how to move forward. This is what Chad Hartmann of Glenn Valley Foods told NBC News after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided his meat-packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. ICE agents arrested 76 illegal immigrants at Hartmann’s plant alone, which he said was about half his entire workforce, and over 500 […]
In the opening pages of his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway recites the English writer John Donne’s famous poem from centuries past. “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Both works warn about the dangers of hubris. On Friday the 13th, the bell began to […]
Israel‘s preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with diplomacy, with recent diplomatic efforts to head off Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, it’s all set the stage for the Iranian regime’s deep vulnerability. This would have been […]
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has ruled that several key pieces of the massive bill to implement President Trump’s agenda run afoul of the Byrd Rule and must be taken out of the package to allow it to pass with a simple majority vote on a special procedural fast-track. The parliamentarian ruled against several provisions under...