Aug. 10 is Herbert Hoover Day, marked annually on Hoover’s birthday to remember the legacy of America’s 31st president. This year the day is especially notable as it also marks the controversial president’s 150th birthday. To most Americans, Hoover’s presidency…
“A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.” These familiar words of Jesus have been applied to many political situations down through the centuries. Perhaps no such application was more apt than the admonition offered to the Democratic…
Sportscaster and CNN contributor Bob Costas made headlines recently by calling former President Donald Trump “by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history” and referring to Trump supporters as being “in the throes of some sort of toxic…
Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made By Derek Leebaert St. Martin’s Press/476 pages/$35 Derek Leebaert writes interesting and provocative books. In The Fifty-Year Wound, he assessed the triumphs but also the costs of America’s…
It’s just a few months shy of fifty years since I first met Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, better known by the affectionate name of Der Alter Rebbe — the Old Rabbi. By meeting him, I mean reading and studying…
Conrad Black is a respected conservative who has written interesting books, including a very good biography of Richard Nixon, and who hasn’t succumbed to the Trump Derangement Syndrome that afflicts far too many conservatives and Republicans these days. In fact,…
It appears increasingly unlikely that President Joe Biden can finish this year, let alone his term, in the Oval Office. One need not be a physician to see the substantial cognitive decline that’s occurred even since Biden was a candidate….
Washington We are at that stage in the race for the presidency when the Democrats and their allies in the media are fervently courting the most earnest constituency available to them, the Moron Vote. Forget about the Black vote, the…
A brouhaha has erupted over President Donald Trump’s decision to forward a Supreme Court justice nominee to the Senate for confirmation. Democrats have threatened to pack the court if Democrats capture both the White House and the Senate in November….
