Opinion

If Illinois residents think things can’t get any worse economically, just wait. On Nov. 8, they’ll vote on an amendment to the state’s constitution that would guarantee it. Rising public sector pension costs are already causing property tax increases and forcing cuts in public safety and other vital services. Now along comes Amendment 1. It’s…

The most recent annual meeting of Interpol’s governing body brought more bad news for its democratic member states, including the U.S. Interpol’s General Assembly concluded on Oct. 21. Interpol is still governed by a committee on which stable democracies are in the minority, it is still kowtowing to China over Taiwan, and is still refusing…

Days before the upcoming midterm elections, a hammer-wielding mentally ill man—who, according to the New York Post, was illegally in the U.S.—broke into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and attacked her husband, Paul. Mr. Pelosi suffered a fractured skull, underwent surgery, and is expected to make a full recovery. At the time…

Peter Vlaming believes words have power, a conviction that cost him his job.  Vlaming was fired from his position teaching French at West Point High School in Virginia in 2018 for refusing to call a female student by male pronouns.  Vlaming said he was essentially given the option to either “deny” his own “Christian belief,…

First of two articles Representatives from some 190 countries will meet in Egypt for two weeks starting Nov. 6 to “[deliver] for people and the planet” at COP27, the U.N. Conference of the Parties annual summit on climate change policy. The predominant message at these climate conferences is one of “catastrophic” global warming necessitating policies…

One of the dominant themes in current liberal messaging is that democracy is “endangered” by waves of “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” But aren’t liberals occasionally guilty of uncorking wild conspiracy theories that don’t turn out to be true? An obvious sore point is the liberal notion that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to…