Each morning for the last several days I’ve turned first for news concerning the two SEALs lost at sea off the coast of Somalia, hoping—by this moment, hoping against all hope—that they will somehow be found alive. I’ve been privileged…
Psychopaths have contempt for everyone else. Many of them feel no remorse for the advantage they take of others because they feel anyone so stupid as to fall for their stratagems deserves what they get. The same is true of…
Of all Biden’s failings, immigration is in a class by itself. While we may disagree with his other blunders and lament his failures of execution, these have a subjective element. In contrast, Biden’s open border is objectively a deliberate dereliction…
Last week, President Biden and his State Department renewed a waiver of sanctions on Iran selling electricity to Iraq. That waiver, first granted in July and now renewed, gives Iran access to a $10 billion account held in Oman. Once…
On the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center and killed nearly 3,000 Americans, the Biden administration thought it would be a good time to finalize a prisoner-swap trade with Iran — a country with…
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a four-part series on Israel, Iran’s nuclear program, and the U.S. Part Three addressed Iran’s nuclear quest and failed efforts to stop its program. Part Four turns to how vulnerable Israel is to…
Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series on Israel, Iran’s nuclear program, and the U.S. Parts One and Two examined six use-of-force crises where Israel and the U.S. were at odds. In all but one case, things…
The publicity campaign surrounding Oppenheimer strikes as more posthumous reputational rehabilitation than movie promotion. Last year, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm vacated the Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 decision to revoke the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Given that the…
One of the early scenes in the movie 1776 shows John Adams despairing for America’s freedom from British oppression. He sings, “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?” That scene came to mind when the latest news broke about Iran’s hell-for-leather…
