WASHINGTON — I remember when the networks called the 2020 election for President Joe Biden. It was a Saturday; that evening, as he addressed his gleeful supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, the new president-elect declared victory in “the battle to restore…
Readers have been pestering me for months as to who is going to win the election. You will remember that in 2016 I made a fool of myself when I cast my vote early for Donald Trump, the greenhorn Republican,…
Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, Vice President Kamala Harris has hammered former President Donald J. Trump for laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on August 26 — the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate…
It’s difficult to choose the single worst portion of Thursday night’s State of the Union address — for sheer unmitigated awfulness, it was a target-rich environment. Personally, however, the lowest point came when Capitol Police arrested Steve Nikoui, the father…
It’s been two years since a suicide bomber detonated 20 pounds of explosives at the Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul during the single-most-disorganized embarrassment of a withdrawal that the U.S. has conducted. Thirteen U.S. service…
There are no discernible principles behind President Joe Biden’s policy decisions except to undo everything that former President Donald Trump accomplished and to blame Trump for whatever may go badly. Last week featured two perfect examples: Biden’s new offer of…
The only thing left unsaid about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump is that it’s almost certainly not the only indictment that will be issued against Trump before the 2024 election. A Georgia grand jury’s report —…
A soon-to-be-Republican-led Congress has promised to investigate the calamitous departure from Afghanistan. This is how it should be and is consistent with our country’s tradition of oversight and investigation. But an even more important priority is investigating the armed forces’…
Crisis of Command: How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America’s Generals and Politicians By Stuart Scheller (Knox Press, 272 pages, $28) “He was following the orders he was given.” At this point, former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller despises those…
