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Nearly three decades after the end of the Troubles, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is once again on fire.

On Monday, June 8, a Sudanese "asylum" seeker attacked a local man on the street with a kitchen knife, slashing him across the face and neck. Graphic video of the attack, which blinded the victim in one eye, rapidly spread ...Read more

Set aside, for a moment, that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner spent years with a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo. Set aside that he blamed sexual assault victims for their predicament, that he called rural white Americans stupid racists, that he advocated political violence, that he mocked a wounded Purple Heart recipient, that he joked about the...Read more

The World Cup is kicking off here in the United States and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is showing up and something is happening that ought to ...Read more

The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the Revolutionary era. It's an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed the idiosyncrasy, of the emergence of the primacy of ...Read more

When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of the umbrella agency that gathers intelligence from ...Read more

Something important is happening in Washington that many political observers did not expect to see this early in President Donald Trump's second term.

For the first time since Republicans regained unified control of Washington, significant numbers of Republican senators and House members are openly pushing back against the White House not on ...Read more

Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in "The Fountainhead" would scheme to seize the global economy's commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don't just appear in cartoons or in Rand's novels.

Enter Thomas ...Read more

Long after Election Day, the ballots comin' down

No IDs or postmarks wherever they are found

The laws make cheating legal, and Democrats applaud

And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the fraud?

Fed up Angelinos, having watched their city burn

Voted for a newcomer, then saw the tallies turn

The loser makes the runoff, no one thinks...Read more

New York is in an economic death spiral. Companies and taxpayers are fleeing the state, taking their money with them.

Gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman needs to go bold and offer New Yorkers real change.

Roll out a concrete plan to phase out the state income tax. It's an economy killer.

The Albany spendaholics and taxaholics in both ...Read more

One of the more revealing political developments of recent years has been the Democratic Party's growing concern about its declining support among male voters. After years of watching men drift toward the political right, many Democrats have begun asking a simple question: Why are men leaving?

The answer may be simpler than party strategists ...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence is now promoting his new book, "What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the American Conscience."

Distinct from most stuff appearing now for the nation's 250th birthday, Pence's book is targeted not at the nation as whole, but at the Republican Party in particular.

Pence's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ...Read more

I think the time has come to revisit a column of mine published Feb. 18, 2026.

Titled "Some Hard Choices For Iran's Ayatollah Theologians," the essay sketched a military operation to attack, seize and, possibly, occupy the Iranian Persian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas.

In mid-February, the Pentagon increased the size and power of U.S. forces in ...Read more

Politicians promise they'll "help" us.

President Donald Trump says he'll "create the jobs and future you deserve."

President Joe Biden liked to say, "Help is on the way."

I prefer President Ronald Reagan's: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

An economy runs best when ...Read more

Two weeks after the 2014 midterm elections, then-President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the issue of illegal immigration. Part of this address -- delivered from the White House -- actually focused on the negative aspects of people illegally entering and staying in the United States.

"But today, our immigration system is broken -- and ...Read more

President Donald Trump's outbursts at the end of his "Meet the Press" interview, where he called Kristen Welker "crooked" and "stupid," were treated as rude, even unglued. Somehow the offended Trump haters never seem to realize that they call Trump "crooked," "stupid" and worse about twice an hour on news programs.

One reason for Trump's anger ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Western Pennsylvania's leadership in AI, robotics and cyber intelligence companies that work with the Department of War was reinforced recently. Qintel was selected for an $84 million contract with the United States Cyber Command to deliver a threat intelligence solution in support of full-spectrum cyber operations.

Qintel also ...Read more