SocietyCommentary
It’s been said that paranoia isn’t pretty. That much is clear from a fatal hit-and-run in the early morning hours of Sunday involving a North… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
July 20 marked a year and a half into the Biden administration, but you’d never know that from Garry Trudeau, the liberal hack political cartoonist… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If the following news headlines were paired in an essay question on a high school Advanced Placement civics test, it might well be framed as… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
There’s apparently no political courage worthy of commendation ever exhibited by maverick Democrats—at least not if the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s annual Profiles in… Read More
LawCommentary
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on the nomination of federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on April 4. The nomination likely will… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. (Biden’s address last April 28 was to a joint session of Congress,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Four years ago today, on April 7, 2017, some 61 senators pledged their fealty to the filibuster amid talk in the Senate of abolishing it…. Read More
LawNews
In a letter to congressional leaders, nine former members of the Federal Election Commission warn that a Democrat-backed bill to overhaul elections, now before Congress,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It was news that talk radio devotees, among whom I long have counted myself, had been anticipating—make that dreading—for months. But when the news broke… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In his inauguration speech Jan. 20, President Joe Biden invoked Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address—and a nation, now as then, deeply divided. “To overcome these challenges—to restore the soul… Read More
EducationCommentary
How do you spell “canceled”? Does it take one “l” or two? According to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, the official dictionary of the Scripps National… Read More
LawCommentary
It would be a gross understatement—and in no way a pun, intended or otherwise—to describe as “injudicious” what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The environmental zealots who regularly take to the streets of the nation’s capital for climate change protests clearly have never read Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It’s a long-standing tradition of the news media to run stories on the anniversaries of consequential events from the past, as they did for the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is set to present its 2019 Profile in Courage Award on May 19 to … drumroll … House Speaker… Read More
SecurityCommentary
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.” That pithy observation is attributed to the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan,… Read More
SocietyNews
A self-described “progressive” K-8 school in Washington, D.C., is figuratively jumping through hoops in efforts to avoid playing basketball at a private Christian school in… Read More
EconomyNews
In an era of what President Donald Trump and others have decried as “fake news,” an internet browser extension offers a possible solution for determining… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Supporters of border security can only hope that, over the Christmas recess, Santa gifted congressional Republicans with a crash course in effective messaging on the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
At a September 2008 campaign rally in Elko, Nevada, Barack Obama, then-senator and president-to-be, egged on the crowd. “I need you to go out and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
D.C. Public Schools announced April 28 that just 46 percent of seniors in the District’s traditional high schools are on track to graduate in June. Not to worry,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On Sunday night, longtime country music star Reba McEntire lived up to a promise, made two days earlier, to steer clear of politics as host… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Donald Trump once again caught all of the pundit universe by surprise. He was faced with a challenge to his tough border control position… Read More
LawCommentary
When Republican congressional leaders went to the White House on Jan. 23, 2009—just three days into Barack Obama’s presidency—to discuss legislation, he helpfully reminded them that his… Read More
EducationCommentary
The irony and hypocrisy are obviously lost on self-styled “anti-fascists” who loudly—and, more often than not, violently—shut down, in fascist fashion, the free speech of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
So poisonously partisan is the climate in Congress these days that even something as basic as renaming a strip of federally controlled land next to… Read More
LawCommentary
During the recent government funding debate, Democrats insisted on a “clean” Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals bill. Clean voter rolls? Not so much. Earlier this… Read More
Nearly 200 protesters were arrested on the steps of the Capitol at a rally in December. The occasion? Thousands had gathered there to demand that… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On Saturday night, CBS will rebroadcast the annual Christmas special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” The seasonal favorite, narrated by Burl Ives, was first telecast in… Read More
LawCommentary
San Francisco, being the proud “sanctuary city” for illegal aliens that it is, will no doubt roll out the welcome wagon for Jose Ines Garcia… Read More
