Houthi attacks on shipping continue. While Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced a multilateral effort to patrol the passage with warships, this is dangerous and unsustainable virtue signaling. Perhaps President Joe Biden believes this akin to the Obama-era anti-piracy mission just 400 miles away, but that was in open water far from shore. The U.S. Navy was […]
Last week, Taliban fighters arrested dozens of Afghan women and teenagers on the streets of Kabul for the crime of appearing in public with “bad hijab.” One young woman told the Guardian that after her arrest, she was “lashed on her feet and legs.” This behavior is in direct contradiction to Taliban dictates over attire for women. In […]
All Americans are paying for mass tort lawsuits — even those who have never heard of this type of litigation. These profit-driven legal maneuvers can make attorneys wealthy, but they drain everyone else’s economic resources. Mass tort litigations are lawsuits that involve multiple individual plaintiffs, sometimes thousands of them, seeking damages from defendants, usually corporations, […]
If you listen to enough political speeches, then you will hear a politician refer to America as a “city upon a hill.” Presidents John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama, for example, all have employed this image in their rhetoric. Each has used it to describe America as an example for the world. The […]
Republican presidential candidate and constant front-runner Donald Trump is recycling one of his favorite claims against political rivals: their supposed ineligibility to run for office. This time, the target isn’t Barack Obama or Ted Cruz. Instead, it’s Trump’s own former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley. As with his previous attempts, this one falls flat. […]
Voters still have a chance to avoid the President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump rematch that nobody wants, but they have to act fast. For Democrats, it is almost assuredly too late. Barring some health problem that would require Biden to relinquish the nomination at the convention (not entirely out of the realm […]
The Democrats’ portrayal of former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and MAGA Republicans as extremists helped turn the anticipated red tsunami into a mere red ripple in November 2022. Apparently, this narrative, combined with fearmongering over abortion rights, resonated with enough voters to take the focus off the unimaginable decline we’ve witnessed […]
The widespread uses and benefits of digital technology are one of America’s great untold stories. Few realize that the advanced industrial economy and a high degree of innovation we’ve become accustomed to exist largely due to the use of information communications technologies, which includes everything from smartphones to laptops and digital television, and, most importantly, […]
The public’s confidence in the media is at record lows. Whoopi Goldberg just reminded us why. This week, The View host came unhinged and said one of the most absurd things about former President Donald Trump that’s ever aired on TV. (And that’s saying something!) “This is what it’s all about,” Goldberg said of the […]
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,’” Ronald Reagan once said, but the 40th president could never have known just how right he was. At the time it was spoken and forever since, Reagan’s statement has been taken to refer mainly to the […]