The targeted strike that killed Iran’s supreme military commander, Qassem Soleimani, elicited criticism of President Donald Trump from liberal media outlets and political adversaries. Many likened Trump’s actions to Obama’s Benghazi debacle. It’s worth revisiting events leading up to and…
The column “New ‘Dark Waters’ Movie Is Picture-Perfect Deception” (The American Spectator, December 11), by Kerri Toloczko, demands a response. It addresses the new film Dark Waters, which I have not seen. It also discusses the underlying legal case on which…
Many argue over the existence of a “deep state” composed of appointed and career federal employees who violate their oaths of office and skirt the law in order to achieve certain outcomes. No matter what they are called, there are…
Each year, the federal government spends tens of billions of dollars maintaining thousands of buildings. Billions of dollars are spent annually on facilities that are vacant and hundreds of empty buildings rot after years of neglect. This led intrepid investigator…
As he launched a 2020 presidential bid, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an apology of sorts for his controversial “stop-and-frisk” program. Is Bloomberg sincere in his regret, or is this just a political campaign conversion? To answer…
President Donald Trump has been relying on well-timed tweets to counter developments in the House impeachment inquiry. Perhaps Trump should follow the approach of the 42nd president to overshadow events on Capitol Hill. The full release of the Hollywood film…
The pool of Democratic presidential candidates shrank after Robert O’Rourke, who was hovering around 1 percent in the polls and nearly out of campaign funds, ended his quixotic bid. O’Rourke was the most vocal proponent of gun confiscation of all…
Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s use of the power of the White House when he was vice president to aid his son Hunter in his questionable business deals in Ukraine is back in the news. The Bidens were not the only…
The New York Times has gone on the offensive against Brett Kavanaugh nearly a year after he was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. It may want its readers to believe it is protecting the interest of an alleged sexual assault…
After World War II, the United States was promoting democracy and capitalism in the far reaches of the globe. The Soviet Union was imposing socialism everywhere it could, subjugating millions of people to misery. It was the first time in…