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It's in vogue since Donald Trump's election last month to suggest that using words like "autocrat" or "strongman," let alone "fascist," to describe the once and future president is bad form at best and terribly out of line at worst. The problem with this suggestion is what the president says and what he does; other than that, there's no ...Read more

The cold-blooded, targeted murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he walked into a Manhattan hotel early last Wednesday morning has grabbed national attention, focusing some of it on America's troubling embrace of simple cruelty, and of violence.

There's chilling video circulating widely of the hooded, masked assassin pulling out a ...Read more

The word that Palestinians use for the 1948 displacement of many of their forebears is "Nakba," Arabic for "catastrophe." That displacement, of course, was a self-inflicted catastrophe, but also one that Arab leaders inflicted on the rest of the world, which has paid a heavy price for it. It was the proximate result of the decision by Arab ...Read more

The furor about the real risk to American national security posed by President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence has obscured what is the even greater risk, and that's the one posed by the president-elect himself. It's somehow all but forgotten that Trump was indicted for intentionally ...Read more

In just two weeks since being elected to return to the White House, Donald Trump has given those accused of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome ample cause to feel, well, decidedly un-deranged. Regrettably if unsurprisingly, it's shaping up to be an epic time for "I-told-you-so's," as the president-elect's selections of those who will ...Read more

In July 1945, just weeks after leading Great Britain to final victory over the Nazis, Prime Minister Winston Churchill found himself booted out of office by an electorate that didn't merely reject his bid to stay in power but did so overwhelmingly. Any notion that Churchill's historic achievements since taking command five years earlier would ...Read more

The Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel by some 6,000 Hamas gunmen has changed America's political conversation in multiple respects. Who knew, for example, that there actually exists a pro-slaughter constituency on the far left and college campuses, at least when it comes to Jews, spawning chants by professed progressives of "We are Hamas! We are ...Read more

On Feb. 20, 1939, 20,000 Americans filled New York City's Madison Square Garden to pronounce themselves Nazis, giving Nazi salutes and cheering for Adolf Hitler. The rally took place just two days before George Washington's birthday, the stage outfitted with a massive portrait of our first president, flanked by both American flags and ...Read more

Anyone undecided on whether or not Donald Trump is all there cognitively got quite the lifeline recently at a Trump rally outside Philadelphia when what started as a town hall turned into a new television special: Donald Trump Dancing With Himself. Midway through an event in which South Dakota Gov. and famed puppy executioner Kristi Noem was ...Read more

In her 2021 book "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy," journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon argued that arrogance and addiction to political fashion has tanked Americans' faith in the news media. There's reason to think she's right. Former National Public Radio editor Uri Berliner described NPR's "unspoken consensus about the stories we ...Read more

What began last Oct. 7 with the invasion of Israel by 6,000 Hamas gunmen bent on slaughtering Jews has reached the one-year mark, with Hezbollah, another heavily armed and genocidal enterprise, firing thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. The left has largely whitewashed or defended Hamas' and Hezbollah's attempts at genocide while ...Read more

On Jan. 19, 1989, Ronald Reagan devoted his last speech as president of the United States to reminding Americans that our country owes its success to immigrants. "It's the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America's triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond," Reagan said. "This, I...Read more

In June 2006, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was asked in Boston what the Democrats' plan was for dealing with Iran, designated even then by our State Department as the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism and well on its way to acquiring nuclear weapons. "I don't know," Durbin replied. "With any luck Israel will do something about it, ...Read more