My paternal grandmother — God rest her soul — was a confirmed independent. She could remember a time when women were not allowed to vote, and she took great pride in franchise and scrutinized the records of candidates very carefully….
With friends like President Joe Biden, you don’t need many enemies. Biden made his bid to become the most militarily incompetent American president in history during the Afghan fiasco last August. He may lock in that distinction with his lukewarm…
Following the tragic school shooting in Uvalde Texas, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reiterated a call that many of us have made in the wake of such shootings to arm certain teachers or employees in each school. His proposal was…
President Biden took a victory lap in his war on fossil fuels during his recent trip to Tokyo. He told a Japanese audience that the high U.S. gas prices largely created by his administration are a tremendous shift away from…
Conventional wisdom has it that the Russo-Ukrainian War will devolve into a stalemate in the east and south, but conventional wisdom has proven wrong in so many cases that we should not be surprised if the unexpected happens again. Although…
The Southern border of the United States is spiraling out of control. Within the next few months, it will explode into a full-scale calamity. While the situation has been developing for a long time, there has been no effort to…
As President Joe Biden searches for slogans, excuses, and scapegoats to explain his miserable wreck of a presidency, I would suggest one for the handling of the never-ending COVID saga: “Not as bad as China.” China’s inexcusable handling of the…
In the Netflix series The Last Kingdom, based on a series of Bernard Cornwall novels, the protagonist’s motto is “reputation is everything.” Nowhere is that truer than in the world of international power politics; this is particularly important in times of…
Some time ago, as part of preparing for a graduate course that I teach, I did a study of the habits of successful crisis management by presidents. I studied four presidents who faced serious foreign policy crises and resolved them…
Scientists recently discovered what they believe to be the oldest common an ancestor of today’s octopus and other cephalopods. It lacked a backbone, was slimy, and is now a fossil. Without any apparent irony, they named it after Joe Biden….