In March 1976, Time magazine profiled a Democratic governor from Georgia who was making a long-shot bid for the presidency. A former peanut farmer, he was viewed as an oddity in progressive circles. He talked about his relationship with Jesus and promised not to tell a lie when (not if) he was elected president. Even […]
More than a year after Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, antisemitism in the United States is alive and spreading. Recently released FBI data reveal anti-Jewish hate crimes reached a record number of 11,862 incidents in 2023, accounting for 15% of all hate crimes against a community that totals just 2% of the American population. This is over […]
One need not overstate the claims of Jimmy Carter’s supposed post-presidential saintliness or understate the failures of his presidency to recognize three of his signal achievements. Democrats customarily are heavy regulators, but Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, deregulated the air, truck, and rail industries very much to the public’s benefit. Carter […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appears to be bucking President-elect Trump's endorsement of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who he criticized in a tweet as a "potato" like President Biden. “I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan,”...
Chinese state-sponsored actors hacked into the Treasury Department in early December, accessing unclassified documents from its workstations, the agency said in a letter to lawmakers Monday. The hackers stole a key from a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, and used it to override security and gain access to Treasury workstations, according to the letter from...
Former NFL star Rob Gronkowski publicly backed tech billionaire Elon Musk over his idea to simplify the tax code. “Please do!!!!!!” Gronkowski posted on X in response to Musk’s post. “Drastic simplification now!!!” Musk posted on X, the social platform he owns, calling for a “drastic simplification” of the tax code. He was responding to...
Special counsel Jack Smith formally withdrew from the Mar-a-Lago documents case Friday, referring the ongoing prosecution of President-elect Trump’s two co-defendants to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida. Smith formally dropped charges against Trump in both of his federal cases in November, dismissing them without prejudice while citing Justice Department policy that prohibits...
Russia’s connection to the rupture of an undersea cable between Finland and Estonia is raising a new bevy of fears over the sabotage of critical power lines. The new incidents come as tensions between the West and Russia and China have risen over the war in Ukraine, and as the world braces for a shift...
A U.S. soldier has died in Iraq from noncombat injuries, according to the Defense Department. Capt. Eric Richard Hart, 34, of Indianapolis, died Saturday, the Pentagon said. Hart was supporting the U.S. military's operations against the designated terrorist group ISIS in Iraq. He was assigned to the 38th Infantry Division within the Indiana National Guard....