As the Senate crawls toward a final showdown on confirming Kash Patel, 44, as President Donald J. Trump’s new FBI director, it would be wise to ignore Democrat handwringing and, instead, focus on Patel’s widespread support among those in blue uniforms….
The back and forth was as revealing as not surprising. Recall the story. It went everywhere, but in this case here is the headline and account from the Hill back there in the stone age of 2018. The headline: “FBI agent…
President Trump has nominated New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the fourth-ranking member of the House of Representatives who served on House committees dealing with our armed services and intelligence agencies, to be America’s ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.). Stefanik…
This week, as the confirmation battle over the Trump nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services peaks, as the saying goes: like father, like son. As someone whose teenage political hero in the…
I can understand Meghan McCain’s criticism of first-term President Trump given the shots he took at her famous father, John McCain. Some of them were well deserved, like his vote saving Obamacare. But Meghan was too smart and patriotic to…
What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to listen. But also, to judge by the first week of his second term, Trump 2.0 seems…
As the Senate slouches toward a vote on Pete Hegseth’s nomination as President Donald J. Trump’s secretary of defense, it’s fair to ask: Can this man actually run the Defense Department? Even Hegseth’s critics concede that he is perfectly qualified to preach from the Pentagon’s bully pulpit. He is…
As Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth is grilled by senators, with Democrats attacking Hegseth’s supposed lack of qualifications, some history is called for. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD) was created in 1947 in the Truman administration, a…
How bizarre it was to watch Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, being abused at his confirmation hearing by the Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Until Trump picked him for his cabinet, I didn’t…
