The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck.
A group of former senior intelligence officials recently published a letter supporting Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel as the nominee to be the next CIA director.
Tensions are stirring and trouble is brewing in Philadelphia after two black men were arrested at a Starbucks on April 12.
No one would mistake President Trump for an environmentalist. Yet his immigration policies could inadvertently safeguard the environment far better than any proposal from Greenpeace or the Sierra Club.
In a recent New York Times commentary, former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — the one that acknowledges the “right to keep and bear arms” — is a “relic of the 18th century.” Justice Stevens wants “a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment” as a simple way to fight the National Rifle Association, which blocks gun-control legislation.
Recently, the world witnessed an unusual sight: Mark Zuckerberg, the whiz kid who founded the social media giant Facebook, testifying before the U.S. Senate.
Imagine, if you would, that a Republican presidential candidate, say Mitt Romney or John McCain, had spent the next 18 months after his loss moaning and groaning and blaming everything from the FBI to Russian bots to xenophobia for the loss — and the mainstream media covered the pity party.
“Just getting there, as Cunard once boasted of transatlantic crossings by ship, “is half the fun.” The Atlantic is still there, but ocean liners are not, and almost the only way to cross the ocean sea now is by air. That’s no fun at all. Dining aboard an ocean liner has been replaced by dining aloft, and you’re lucky to get a pretzel or a stale cracker.
Western civilization — in the guise of its three leading powers — struck back at international lawlessness when they hit Syrian chemical sites on April 13. It remains to be seen whether the strike had the desired effect of deterring the Syrian leadership from the further use of such weapons. If it does, President Trump’s claim of “mission accomplished” will be justified. That brings up the key question of “what next?” if chemical weapons use continues.
This has been the fortnight of the first ladies. Last week the focus was on two former first ladies, one about mourning and fond admiring recollections, and one about yet another book of scathing analytical criticism. Barbara Bush was celebrated for her blunt dignity. Hillary Clinton was recalled for her campaign of blunt excuses for her own failures.
There he goes again. Despite the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years, including declining rates for minorities, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, affectionately called "crazy Bernie" by some conservative talk show hosts, is again flirting with the idea that the federal government should guarantee every American a job, paying a minimum of $15 an hour and health care benefits.
They don't make journalists like John Herbers anymore.
The reaction of the Democrats and the left-wing media to the Parkland, Florida, shooting is to disarm America. How predictably backward.
Human events sometimes seem to spill across the globe without rhyme or reason, but occasionally events converge in harmonic fashion, revealing a stunning opportunity.
A wise individual learns from his or her mistakes, yet blunder after blunder in the selection of nominees seems to have taught President Trump nothing.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on alleged censorship on the social media platforms. If that were the subject of the hearing, I would wholeheartedly support it.
If Fox is that dedicated to broadcasting actual football games, it might as well add the annual beauty pageant/game show known as the draft. It makes perfect sense, even if our obsession with the procession is questionable.
Really George? Surprised at that? Surprised that the Clinton machine would intimidate and bully a journalist for investigating a story that could be damaging to their candidate or a powerful ally?
The family of Alfie Evans got an unexpected ray of hope Wednesday as an appeals court agreed to examine their case.
Even Rahm Emanuel, the guy who once famously said no crisis should ever go to waste, now admits the whole "Impeach Trump" rhetoric is a foolhardy tack to take on the Democratic campaign trail. Careful, Democrats. Is that common sense sneaking up on you?
If 2018 is to be the year that Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals finally make it past the second round, Holtby is key.
Has it been noted that the country's political disagreements are becoming increasingly violent? About 15 years ago "the angry left" appeared on the scene, and its indignant members got a lot of attention from the media. The enormous volume of press attention signaled the media's manifest approval, if sotto voce. Next came the Occupiers' movement, and again these ruffians came with the media's approval, at least sotto voce. Then gun-toting cowards began shooting people for humanitarian reasons, and the media did not know what to think. The assassination attempt on House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and his colleagues comes to mind.
