Former President Trump’s decision to duck the first GOP presidential debate may have been tactically sound, but if he tries to sit on his lead in the polls until January, he may regret it. This is certainly true in Iowa,…

As Mark Twain once observed, “The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.” By that standard, former President Trump may find it increasingly difficult to defend himself against the partisan lawfare being…

Surveying the disgraceful condition of our nation’s 21st-century news media, there are times when the question occurs to me, “What would Wes Pruden do?” During the decade I worked as an assistant editor at The Washington Times, I occasionally had…

WASHINGTON — Leonard Leo, the founder of the Federalist Society and of various other conservative groups, is sitting on a bundle of money. Moreover, he is giving a lot of it away. He is not giving it to any left-wing…

The coverage of Jordan Neely’s death on the New York City subway displays, yet again, the media’s tendency to overstate the relevance of race. The mainstream media’s obsession with race has been clear to any casual consumer of news in…

The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) just passed the first reading of the new government’s long-overdue bill to reform Israel’s Extreme Leftist Judiciary Gone Wild. The bill now goes to committee and then needs to pass two more readings to become law….

I blame my parents, first, and a great friend of nearly four decades, second, for my collecting addiction. Without a wife at home to tell me no, I always find room for another fine acquisition. My interests are eclectic, including…

November is almost upon us, and the consensus among credible election analysts is that any momentum the Democrats enjoyed this summer has evaporated. Despite implausible claims about the ephemeral “Dobbs effect,” the election was always destined to be about inflation,…

I can remember the exact moment I became politically aware. It was on November 4, 1979, when a group of radical Islamic Iranians smashed into the United States Embassy and took 66 Americans hostage. Up to that time, as a…

Ya just gotta love the utter cluelessness over there at — yet again — the Washington Post. Just last week, the paper was standing up for voter fraud denial by opposing the raft of GOP candidates running on a platform of…