There’s a good scene in the Kevin Costner–Bruce Greenwood Cuban Missile Crisis flick Thirteen Days in which Michael Fairman, who plays then-UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, puts himself forward as the weakling in the room as the Kennedy administration’s inner circle…
Washington made an agreement that congressmen will vote on as early as today. The country awaits to see what sits behind door number one in this real-life version of Let’s Make a Deal. The thumbs down or thumbs up awarded…
Toward the end of the legislation raising the debt ceiling, listed provisions detail congressional support for various permits and the like for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This seems like a worthy project. It does not look like the concession that…
The following is an exclusive Q&A between The American Spectator editor Paul Kengor and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on his new book, March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution, written with Joe Gaylord,…
The meaning of “hubris” has evolved over the centuries. Today, it has come to mean too much pride and even an insolent sense of self-confidence. One of the definitions of the word “ύβρις” in ancient Greece was disregard for the…
Whenever we have a national conversation about government debt, Democrats invariably respond that spending is not the reason the debt is now nearly equal to our national GDP. The real cause of our indebtedness, they inform us, is that taxes…
Quite a tempest unfolded this past week in Congress, as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-Calif.) closed down an anti-Israel event that Jew-hater Rashida Tlaib (D-Squad, D.C.) and her Jew-hating Squad had planned to hold in the halls of the United…
Barely two weeks ago, it didn’t look like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had enough votes to pass a bill to increase the limit on the U.S. national debt. On April 19, when the California Republican released the Limit, Save, Grow…
Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed the Parents Bill of Rights Act (H.R.5), a measure that would guarantee parents a meaningful voice in their children’s education. In a sane political environment, this would not have been a controversial bill….
