Of the seventeen members of the House who voted against the anti-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel and stood with Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, sixteen were Democrats. Let that sink in, because some three-quarters of Jewish voters blindly…
The “Squad,” as they are now called, is interested not in legislation but in political theater. And in this they have been very successful. After their recent face-off with President Trump, they have received more media attention than the whole…
How do you explain the ingratitude of Ilhan Omar and thousands like her who hate not the culture that threw them into the misery of a refugee camp, but the culture that rescued them? Among those who become dependent on…
I don’t give a damn where you were 60 years ago on civil rights. I don’t care if your great grandpappy owned slaves or you grew up in rural Louisiana and used the “N” word as often as a contemporary…
The concentration camps were not just barbaric, they also served a political function. They made death anonymous. They removed any meaning from death as they made the extinction of life, in such a mechanized fashion, a statement about its worthlessness….
Politics is about power, how to get it and how to keep it. Politics is about mobilizing votes. It should come as no surprise that candidates can say one thing on one day and another on another day because they…
All empires and great societies come to an end. Ours will be no exception. The fissures of collapse are already in evidence. Nothing is as valuable to any political system as its legitimacy. Regimes mired in corruption and inefficiency stumble…
The College Board’s “adversity score” for the SAT is merely a belated confirmation of how admissions committees have used these scores. For decades, colleges and universities have been interpreting SAT scores to give preference to racial minorities on the fatuous…
Robert Mueller’s report on the alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government presented Democrats with a conundrum reminiscent of unfulfilled eschatological movements. For many Democrats, and even some Republicans, Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton was…