With Hamas's terrorism against Israel dominating the news this week, former Vice President Mike Pence looks all the wiser in having spent the three prior weeks spreading Reaganite wisdom about defense and foreign policy.
It can be disorientating at first. Despite all the images of dead grandparents, mothers, and children, despite the eyewitness testimony of concertgoers describing how Hamas murdered and raped their friends right in front of them, Palestinians still go on live television and claim with a straight face that Hamas is not killing civilians.
The Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel, backed by Iran, underscore a grim deadline: The restrictions from the United Nations on Tehran’s testing, transfer, and procurement of missiles and drones expire next week. The Biden administration and Europe have said they will henceforth use their own national sanctions, as opposed to the U.N. sanctions, to hold Iran and buyers of its weapons accountable. But that’s not enough to stem Russia’s slaughter of Ukrainians using Tehran-made weapons or to curb Iran’s support for Palestinian terrorists. The United States and its European allies must stop the embargoes’ expiration and reimpose all U.N. Iran sanctions.
President Biden on Tuesday harshly condemned the “abhorrent” terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel as the death toll in the region climbed, and vowed that the U.S. would fully support the Israeli people. Biden confirmed Americans are among those being held hostage by Hamas and outlined how his administration is supplying additional aid to Israel...
The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) released a statement expressing its solidarity with, support and condolences for Israel. “We stand with Israel during these tragic times and want to be clear that these hateful, terrorist actions have no legitimacy and must be condemned,” AAMA President and Mount Vernon, New York Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard said in...
NCAA president Charlie Baker and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti are set to testify before the Senate next week to decide the future of college sports for student athletes, ESPN reports. They will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee after several have asked Congress to draft a federal law that would allow the NCAA to...
President Biden on Tuesday confirmed that American citizens are among those being held hostage by Hamas in the wake of an unprecedented coordinated attack by the militant group over the weekend that killed thousands of people in Israel. The president also said in remarks at the White House that the number of Americans killed in...
House Republicans are set to hear Tuesday from the two declared candidates for Speaker: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Neither Scalise nor Jordan — nor former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who on Monday left the door open to a second bid — has emerged as a clear...
Former conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is advising a top Republican in the Badger State against pursuing a potential impeachment against a liberal justice on the state's high court. Republicans have been mulling impeaching recently elected liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz after she made comments ahead of her April election for...