President Joe Biden has called on Israel to adopt an immediate ceasefire with Hamas. In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden warned of other undefined U.S. policy shifts absent Israeli policy changes following its accidental killing of seven aid workers on Monday. Putting those prospective policy shifts to one side, […]
Belatedly I noticed that today is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, so I write more in haste (to not miss the occasion) than in exhaustively researched reflection. It takes no exhaustive research, though, for any reasonable, freedom-loving human to be thankful for NATO’s salutary existence and to be […]
When in doubt, blame businesses for closing their doors instead of the crime that has made it unsustainable for them to operate. San Francisco might even do you one better: force the businesses to stay open anyway. One of the 11 members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is floating reviving a vetoed 1984 law […]
Eva Edl knows a thing or two about wrongful imprisonment. In the aftermath of World War II, she escaped a communist concentration camp in Yugoslavia before making her way to the freedom promised in the United States. But now 87 years old, Edl is facing up to six months in prison in her adopted country […]
Iranian diplomats reacted furiously to Monday’s Israeli airstrike on a building adjacent to Iran’s consulate in Syria. The Biden administration appears almost as peeved. State Department officials hint that Israel gave the United States very little notice of the airstrike. This reticence indicates that senior Israeli military officials no longer trust the White House to […]
Children are being coerced into surgically destroying themselves when they would otherwise move on from their angsty LGBT phases. A long-term study done in the Netherlands showed that over time, children grow out of their gender confusion. The study was conducted over 25 years using 2,772 11-year-olds from the general population. They were asked periodically […]
A prominent New York City immigrant advocate on Thursday criticized a visit to the city by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is in town to headline the local Republican Party’s annual gala. Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, said Abbott is “not welcome” on account of his hardline immigration policies. “Greg...
President Biden is signaling that growing frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could lead to a change in U.S. support for Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, following the shocking Israeli strike killing World Central Kitchen aid workers. The White House sharpened its message toward Israel significantly following a call between Biden...
The $175 million bond in former President Trump's civil fraud trial is at risk after the New York attorney general’s office questioned the qualifications of the California-based company that posted it. State lawyers wrote in a brief court notice Thursday that they take “exception to the sufficiency of the surety,” secured from Knight Specialty Insurance...