The people with those little blue-and-yellow flag logos on their social media profiles won’t like this very much at all, but what Tucker Carlson lets loose in the latest episode of his Twitter show is pretty hard to assail. Here’s…
In today’s America, it sure is nice to be a Biden. Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden’s transparently sweetheart plea deal — consummated this week with his daddy’s Justice Department — encapsulates, in many ways, the two-tiered system of justice that…
The Savoyard diplomat Joseph de Maistre, writing to his Russian counterpart Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky in the autumn of 1815, could not help but express his profound displeasure with the amoral nature of the czarist bureaucracy. “Some strange spirit of…
What some fans disliked most about Tucker on Twitter’s first episode one suspects his Fox News overlords disliked most about Tucker Carlson Tonight. On the latter show, Carlson occasionally flirted with sunbathing on the grassy knoll while wearing a tinfoil…
President Biden has nominated Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding Army Gen. Mark Milley. He will probably be confirmed quickly. Brown is an F-16 driver of…
So Bakhmut falls, and the war in Ukraine continues. The lesson is: Don’t hype a battle unless you know you can win. The struggle for Bakhmut started in earnest last August. At the time, it was just one engagement on…
Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine has now become a political and economic calamity for the Kremlin. Having developed over decades a climate of servitude to the will of controlled oligarchs and autocrats, Russia has now lost any grip it may…
“Xi Jinping: The ‘Neutral’ Mediator,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, May 15, 2023.
Twenty years and one week ago, American forces invaded Iraq. By the time then-President Barack Obama withdrew our troops in October 2011, they had suffered about 4,000 deaths, including combat and noncombat casualties, plus about 32,000 wounded. Our British allies,…
