If the truth shall prevail, here is how history will remember January 6: peaceful demonstrators were finally fed up with a government that had become outwardly tyrannical. The following commentary was adapted from remarks delivered at an event held in Toms River, New Jersey, by the Patriot Freedom Project, an organization founded by Cynthia Hughes,…
The Federal District Court has ruled against the Trump administration’s religious exemption for the Little Sisters of the Poor regarding the contraceptive mandate. The decision highlights ongoing legal disputes over religious liberties and healthcare regulations. No further details about the case or its implications are provided in the available text.
President Joe Biden has faced criticism for policies that complicate home ownership for young families while promoting his economic agenda. During a recent speech in Milwaukee, Biden claimed his approach is “restoring the American dream,” asserting, “It’s working.” However, rising inflation and stagnant wage growth have made housing less affordable, with high prices benefiting existing…
Over the Independence Day holiday, a friend asked me if Republican Populism is a person or a movement. I mulled the question, and here is my cursory response to this curious citizen: Throughout the Trump candidacy, presidency, and to the present, the Left has endeavored to conflate their opponents with a person. True, historically, both…
Forty-five years ago, anti-communist dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn caused a stir at Harvard with a famous commencement speech deploring the decadence of the West. The rivalry of the Cold War was not as neat as it appeared, he said. The liberal West, by making man and his desire for material satisfaction the measure of all things,…
“Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds. Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds.” That notice, boldface in the original, appeared in advance of…
Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That’s what a casual reader of “The Clash of Civilizations?”—published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer—might think. Huntington was at the peak of his career as a political science professor and director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University when he wrote, “the…
The presumption of “safe until proven otherwise,” which governs the way we license new chemicals and new foods, is one that has caused and is causing immense damage until it is overturned. If I were to invoke the specter of an “evil corporation,” which would you think of first? Perhaps it would be the corporation…
William Barr, the attorney general who appointed John Durham to investigate the Russian collusion hoax targeting Donald Trump, clarified that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were involved in Durham’s inquiry. In his memoir One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, Barr praised Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,…
Back in 1986, members of the Reagan cabinet said they were willing to take drug tests to set an example for federal workers and the public. That caught the attention of Jay Leno, who recommended IQ tests instead. Better still, Wayne Allyn Root now contends, would be lie detector tests, an idea that “threatens the…