Opinion and commentary on news, politics, culture, and policy impact.
As March and Women’s History Month draw to a close, it’s worth taking a moment to ponder a rhetorical question posed earlier this month by the website SelfRelianceCentral.com: “Why Do Democrats Despise Women?” That’s not political hyperbole. It’s a serious—and legitimate—question. How else can one explain why elected Democrats nearly unanimously oppose efforts at…
There is a fine line between stretched truth and outright lies. In a series of recent congressional hearings, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seems to have found that line and pitched his tent on it. Mayorkas gave revealing testifimony Wednesday before both the Senate Appropriations Committee and a House Appropriations subcommittee. Such hearings tend to…
When it comes to President Joe Biden’s energy policies, he has earned “an F,” says Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. Rosendale is one of 221 Republicans who voted Thursday in support of a bill, HR 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act. The vote was 225-204 with four Democrats joining the Republican majority and one GOP member voting…
Throwing a former president in jail is bananas. If that happens, we’ll certainly look a lot more like a banana republic. On Thursday evening, a Manhattan grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on charges related to hush money payments made to pornographic performer Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election. Though the details have yet…
The widely reported indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, headed by Alvin Bragg, doesn’t come as a surprise. That lack of surprise, though, isn’t because he’s necessarily guilty of any crimes. Like anyone else accused of a crime, Trump is deemed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond…
America’s schoolchildren suffered grievously from prolonged school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. That was a rare point of consensus at the March 28 hearing of the newly created House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, transcending the standard, tiresome, and transparently partisan criticisms of the Biden and Trump administrations’ pandemic performance. To improve America’s response…
One of the Left’s favorite tactics for stifling debate about abortion is to claim pro-life men shouldn’t have an opinion about what women do with their bodies. Nebraska state Sen. Merv Riepe was one of the co-sponsors of the Nebraska Heartbeat Act, so it’s clear he refuses to play the pro-abortion shame game. But like…
“If not now, when?” That’s one of the key questions Washington must deal with when it comes to the greatest existential menace America must confront and defeat in this century. The critical matter is not the issue of John Kerry’s climate change. It’s about how to effectively fend off a Communist China that has been…
TikTok has become a global sensation in recent years, with millions of users sharing and viewing a seemingly endless array of short-form videos on the platform. However, the app’s ownership by the Chinese behemoth ByteDance raises grave national security concerns regarding the risks the app presents to the United States and its citizens. As a…
A leading Asian studies expert is weighing in on how the U.S. can diminish the threat China poses to Taiwan, even as tensions between the two countries remain high. “I think the first thing we need to do is clear a backlog of arms sales to Taiwan. We sell Taiwan advanced military hardware, and a…
The fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico that claimed 38 lives is a sober reminder of the ongoing crisis along the southern border. About 70 men from South and Central America were being held in the migrant facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas, when the fire…
The legacy media have a preset narrative machine when it comes to mass shootings. That narrative machine takes into account the identities of the shooter and the victims, and then churns out an explanation for the shooting. White shooter, black victims: systemic racism. Black shooter, white victims: alienation caused by systemic racism. Muslim shooter, gay…
Historian Arnold Toynbee observed “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” It’s hard not to think about this reading the results of the latest Wall Street Journal-NORC poll, appearing under the headline “America Pulls Back From Values That Once Defined It.” Only 38% of Americans now say patriotism is “very…
Three massive news events Monday exposed the demons possessing America. The Wall Street Journal published a poll finding that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought a crisis of confidence in America, a rot in the soul of the nation. Back in 1998, Americans overwhelmingly rated these things as “very important”: patriotism (70%), religion (62%), and having children…
While appearing at a recent congressional hearing on China, former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger testified to what many in our political class have failed to acknowledge: Although America has long sought peace and cooperation with China, “it does us little good to repeat again and again that we aren’t seeking a new Cold…
WILMORE, Ky.—The secular and cynical find it difficult to believe not only that “God governs in the affairs of men,” as Benjamin Franklin said, but that He would visit a small town where there are few traffic lights and a decent restaurant is several miles away. Something happened here at Asbury University. Kevin Brown, the…
With hundreds of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over reforms to the judicial system proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, what are Americans to make of it? “Well, basically, what Netanyahu is proposing is to make the appointments of the judges less political and their powers less sweeping….
National Public Radio has become a parody of itself. NPR recently ran a news article about how the World Athletics Council, the governing body for international track and field competitions, will henceforth prohibit biological males who “identify” as females from competing in women’s sports. The article had this line, which, for readers with common sense,…
Ask any TikTok user about the app’s “For You” Page, and many will say that it “knows them better than they know themselves.” Between its manipulative technology and connection to the Chinese Communist Party, it’s unclear how much damage TikTok is doing to American society. We do know, however, that teen depression is skyrocketing, and…
What happened during the pandemic? According to a new poll, it looks like there was a seismic change in America’s values during the past few years. In August 2019, mere months before the COVID-19 pandemic would shatter normal life in America, 89% of Americans thought hard work was very important, according to a Wall Street…