Recently, Wyoming “Republican” Rep. Liz Cheney published a piece in the Wall Street Journal with this amusing headline: The Jan. 6 Committee Won’t Be Intimidated We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and will present them no matter what our…

Literally the week before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, there was a slaughter. Dozens of state and local mask mandates and vaccine requirements were cut down as they stood, freeing American students and citizens from nearly two…

When the dust finally settles and we look back on the COVID-19 pandemic as a matter of history, we may well conclude that the most consequential aspect of the ordeal was not the pandemic itself but rather the explosion in…

“For I ask all men whether they would prefer to have joy in truth or in falsehood. They hesitate no more in preferring the truth than in wishing for happiness itself.” –St. Augustine  I am about to argue that consummate…

In February, far-left San Francisco underwent a political shock quite appropriate to a city used to the ground shifting under its feet. But the recall election in which three members of the local school board were blown out of office…

On January 13, 2021, one week before his term of office expired, President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time. All Democratic and ten Republican members of the House of Representatives adopted a single article of impeachment charging him…

The marketing campaign looks like a success. Gallup notes that Americans identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) eclipse 7 percent. That more than doubles the figure the polling organization reported a decade ago.  At this rate, gays will…

Every year, the Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, or PST) issues a National Threat Assessment report. Its objective is to identify what kinds of individuals or groups, either domestic or foreign, are likely to commit acts of terrorism in…

The Rise of China, Inc.: How the Chinese Communist Party Transformed China into a Giant Corporation By Shaomin Li (Cambridge University Press, 346 pages, $30) The symbiotic relationship between China’s government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enables China to…

Mark Twain once observed, “History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.”  As midterm elections approach, Democrats face challenges eerily similar to those following President Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection. Their response was a select committee to stage a legislative show…