As a friend of mine put it at the time of his confirmation in March 2021, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona “doesn’t strike one as the sharpest tool in the shed.” An academic colleague of mine added in an email…
Sixty years ago today, the president of the United States was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald. No one experienced the tragedy like John F. Kennedy’s wife. The image of Jackie Kennedy almost instinctively, in a motherly way, scrambling to the…
Perhaps the gods of political incorrectness are exacting revenge upon Major League Baseball’s screwy wokesters. I recently wrote about the implosion of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite posting another 100-win season, the Dodgers pathetically failed to make it through the…
Once again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has encountered a security threat, and yet again, the Biden administration is refusing to provide the presidential candidate with Secret Service protection, despite multiple requests from Kennedy and his team over several months. In…
FRANKLIN, Pa. — As I approached this idyllic Western Pennsylvania town last Saturday afternoon, admiring the gorgeous fall foliage along Route 8 North, I was greeted by something quite unfamiliar. Sadly, it was a sight not unusual today in small-town,…
Over the last two weeks, the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip have been at the mercy not of Israel but of Hamas. One feels for the Gazans. They’re suffering serious deprivation, lacking basic supplies and food and water, watching…
With the world on fire right now, with a tragic mess raging in the Middle East (which we’re covering in depth here at The American Spectator), I’m reluctant to chime in with some much-less-important baseball news, which is plainly superficial…
As leftists look to cancel Christopher Columbus and today’s annual holiday commemorating him — that is, the man who discovered this land that is the United States of America — they’re also looking to replace the great explorer with a…
Yesterday, October 6, 2023, was the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Yom Kippur War, also known as the October War. It was an all-out assault on Israel, a massive invasion led by Egypt and Syria with the backing…
If reports are accurate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., promising a major announcement in Philadelphia on October 9, will declare himself an independent and pursue a third-party run for the presidency. If he does, it will be the Democrats’ worst nightmare….