Almost every political movement has a moment when it must deal with its irresponsible dregs. The violent louts who seem determined to embarrass you and everything you stand for. The sort of folks who you begin to believe were hired…
After months of death, depression, and disruption due to COVID-19, there is hope of ending the pandemic. The Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed,” which spurred private pharmaceutical research while stopping the Food and Drug Administration from killing people with delay,…
Johns Hopkins owned slaves. Some people associated with the school he founded, Johns Hopkins University, are shocked. But why? The university, worried about its reputation well before wokedom seized control of the public square, presented the welcome story that Hopkins,…
It looks like Susan Rice will get to the White House, just not as vice president or secretary of state, as she had hoped. Best known for mismanaging international affairs under President Barack Obama, she will take control of the…
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” declared President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, triggered a congressional declaration of war against the Empire of Japan the next day. That monumental decision thrust…
Miles Taylor is somebody, at least to the media. Two years ago the New York Times presented him as “a senior official in the Trump administration.” In a Times op-ed he announced the existence of the Trump equivalent of the French Resistance: “many of the senior…
The president is threatening to veto the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Currently set for conference committee to resolve differences between the Senate and House, the $740 billion legislation deserves rejection because it authorizes too much for the military…
Four years ago, after Donald Trump was elected president, the Left was suffering a collective mental breakdown. The new fascist era was upon us. American democracy was over. All good people of principle, meaning progressives, would end up in chains…
A Democrat was elected president, ending a time of Republican dominance and activism. A counter-revolution threatened, with Democrats controlling Congress as well. Then came Georgia’s run-off for the U.S. Senate. The year was 1992, when Paul Coverdell improbably helped redress…
