March 30, 1981 seemed like it would be a routine day for President Ronald Reagan. That afternoon he was speaking to a friendly crowd at the AFL-CIO convention in the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel. He had no…
Donald Trump nearly died and one onlooker was killed due to a failure in tactics by the Secret Service. This does not detract from the bravery of the immediate members of the protective detail, but it does point to a…
No one knows what Thomas Matthew Crooks thought the moment he pulled the trigger. Perhaps he was thinking that a single bullet would solve all of America’s problems. Or maybe he thought he would be lauded as the savior of…
Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly release new episodes every Saturday. “Fight, Fight, Fight.” That was the iconic shout of President Donald Trump as he rose, fist raised, from the assassination attempt. It’s a moment that still hasn’t quite sunk in,…
World leaders have released statements and even talked personally to former President Donald Trump after the attempt on his life on Saturday. U.S. opponents have been quick to express their thoughts on the event and use the assassination attempt to…
MILWAUKEE — Tuesday was “Make America Safe Once Again” night at the Republican National Convention — some 72 hours after Donald Trump was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin as the former president spoke at a rally in…
Just a few short days after a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, and after Democratic political leaders and their media accomplices expressed “horror” at the attempted assassination, urged that the political rhetoric be toned down,…
“Clueless Kim Cheatle,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, July 17, 2024.
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free,” wrote Machiavelli. For all the labors of its best minds,…
