In 1534, Spanish officials urged the Crown to garrison Mona Island as La llave de las Indias — the key to the Indies. Madrid refused, allowing French corsairs to exploit the unprotected mesa and repeatedly sack San German. Centuries later, German submarine U-156 shelled Camp Cofresi, treating a civilian camp as a military target. Eventually, […]
For Romania’s progressives, meeting an American ambassador now warrants a treason referral. Last weekend, a lawmaker from USR, a party that governed alongside former Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, asked prosecutors to investigate three politicians for treason. Two of them had met Kimberly Guilfoyle, America’s ambassador to Greece, at a Bucharest restaurant on March 31: Sorin […]
2013—Rosemary Barkett’s 34-year Reign of Error in the American judiciary—first in Florida’s lower courts, then as a state supreme court justice (and chief justice),...
The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, is fast becoming one of the most important trade arteries on the planet. Covering 143,000 square miles, an area larger than Germany, the Caspian is the salty remnant of an ancient sea, the Paratethys, cut off from the world’s oceans more than 5 million years ago. Today, it […]
The Trump administration has correctly identified fraud in government programs as a critical issue. Given the federal deficit, it is incumbent on the government to take a hard line on rampant COVID-era spending fraud and well-documented rip-offs of the Medicaid system. At the same time, Washington shouldn’t ignore “legalized” fraud ripping off taxpayers. A perfect […]
On Nov. 3, voters will decide who controls Congress while the war with Iran is still underway. What they will not decide is how that war gets paid for. Congress has scheduled that question for after they cast their ballots. My previous op-ed for the Washington Examiner asked who has the power to declare war. […]