President Joe Biden’s viscerally jarring fall on Thursday in Colorado Springs, while on stage dispensing diplomas to new U.S. Air Force Academy graduates, underscores a terrifying reality: The octogenarian denizen of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, palpably in the throes of debilitating…
“My son was a major in the U.S. Army,” Joe Biden told Marines stationed in Japan on Thursday. “We lost him in Iraq.” Beau Biden died in Bethesda, not Baghdad. He did so six years after he took his last…
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother By Craig Shirley (Harper, 368 pages, $30) “My great age, and the disease which is fast approaching my vitals, warn me that I shall not be long in this world….
The betting odds on the presidential prospects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are giving the namesake son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy a less than zero chance of defeating incumbent and fellow Democrat President Joe Biden in the…
Joe Biden’s press conference this week made news beyond the ways that press conferences normally, by design, make news. The press may love this man. This man does not love the press. Biden, who met the press jointly this week…
“Xi Confirmed for Third Term in One-Candidate ‘Election,’” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, March 14, 2023.
As Presidents’ Day 2023 approaches, we can anticipate the annual ritual of polls of scholars ranking the presidents. These polls can provide fodder for chitchat around the dinner table or at social gatherings, but in terms of providing illuminating insights…
Those of us who favor free enterprise, limited government, property rights, and free trade can no longer support Donald Trump in his quest to win the presidency in 2024. Full disclosure: In 2015, I set up two groups in support…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a moving inaugural address Tuesday. While DeSantis has taken aim at culture war issues in his first term, he signaled in his speech that he’s not done yet. The governor repeated a phrase that received…
