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The Pete Hegseth Red Herring and the GOP's Foreign Policy Civil War
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again -- this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum. But just as the case was during the recent presidential transition period, when Trump opponents resuscitated the discredited 2018 Brett Kavanaugh/Christine Blasey Ford playbook in an attempt to derail ...Read more
Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes a Powerful Argument for School Choice
During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unintentionally made a practical and convincing case for universal school choice.
A few years back, the Montgomery County, Maryland, school board instituted an "LGBTQ-inclusive" curriculum that included storybooks for kids as young as ...Read more
Regardless, Good
President Donald Trump supporters think the President always strategizes ahead of others -- like multidimensional chess. Trump critics think the man who beat Democrats twice is too stupid to think, much less strategize. Those closest to Mr. Trump say he is doing what he does best -- going with his gut, letting others fight it out in front of ...Read more
Liberals Loathe Arrival of 'MAGA Media' Inside the White House!
The New York Times recently published a hissy fit about the White House allowing reporters into the Briefing Room who didn't vote for Kamala Harris. Here was the amazing protest sentence: "Longtime White House reporters say the result has been an erosion of their independence."
The presence of a reporter who didn't vote Democrat doesn't "erode"...Read more
Donald Trump Has a Family Policy. Stop Laughing.
The animating beliefs of this administration range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans and that "He who saves his country commits no crime" (just to name ...Read more
Reality Has a Vote, in Politics as in Entertainment
Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second administration.
After the president gleefully announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, stock market prices fell sharply, and the bond market became, as Trump put it, "yippy." So after just one week, on ...Read more
Trump Shifts His Own Vibe
The vibe around President Trump's second term has shifted, and it's all his doing.
The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protestors weren't in the streets, and federal investigators weren't after him. The GOP was more united than in 2016, and business leaders wanted ...Read more
15 Truths About Immigration, Some More Uncomfortable Than Others
SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. presidency is like a high-stakes poker game. And for President Donald Trump, immigration is his ace in the hole.
Even when he doesn't have the cards, or when his chip stacks are short, the public's animosity toward the foreign-born keeps him in the game.
According to a new poll by Pew Research Center, Americans have ...Read more
The Worst Pope in History
A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a university-like organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last year, the Academy addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas on the 750th anniversary of his death.
This...Read more
It May Seem That Our Republic Is on Its Deathbed. Have We Been Here Before?
Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots -- pushing for American independence from Great Britain -- and Loyalists. But there was only one Benedict Arnold. No Loyalists fought alongside the British at Lexington and Concord.
President ...Read more
Economic Nostalgia Fails Us Again
History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes -- the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era tariffs of today -- offer a striking example. Both emerged from economic nostalgia and fear of change. Both were politically attractive. And both were costly, backward-looking mistakes that ...Read more
Salvation Cannot Be Found in Politics -- or Popes
Since the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, social media has been filled with expressions of loss and mourning, as well as opinions -- both positive and negative -- about Francis' time on the Throne of Peter. The deceased pontiff is being heralded for his warmth and generosity of spirit, particularly as directed at the poor and otherwise...Read more

Cal Thomas: Take out Iran’s nuclear facilities now
Before basketball’s 24-second rule, there was a tactic called freezing the ball. The team that was ahead would attempt to run out the clock by holding onto the ball as long as it could to deny the opposing team an opportunity to score.
That looks like what Iran is again doing – “freezing” negotiations while finishing the final stages of...Read more
The Illegal Aid Society Is Making New York Unsafe
You know the adage, "Don't shoot yourself in the foot"? That's exactly what New Yorkers are doing by pouring their tax dollars into the Legal Aid Society. It should be called the Illegal Aid Society. It's 99% publicly funded -- with your state and local tax dollars -- and its chief business is litigating and lobbying to force changes in the ...Read more
How Not To Fight a Trade War
This week, the stock market yo-yoed wildly, taking investors on a roller coaster of stunning lows and sudden highs. Rarely has investment been so gut-churning. And the reason for the turbulence is obvious: the Trump administration's continuing mixed signals over its trade war.
When that trade war was first announced, on April 2 ("Liberation ...Read more

Hegseth ‘Reform’ Has the Pentagon in Shambles
Pete Hegseth came in hot.
The tatted-up warhawk who’d spent the past seven years as a “Fox & Friends” weekend host was on nobody’s short list for defense secretary when incoming President Trump made him his pick to lead the largest organization in the world.
His lack of experience running a large organization was only one problem. Few ...Read more
Education Freedom Meets Religious Freedom
Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution.
The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will provide the correct answer, falls under the headline of sex education.
The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which ...Read more
Decoupling, Reshoring and Restoring US Defense
In a column published June 12, 2019, I wrote, "I think 50 years from now, historians will argue that between 2000 and 2016, communist China decided to target America as an adversary ... Beijing saw America in retreat and entertained visions of global dominance."
Examples of American retreat: 1) continuing to offshore manufacturing industries,...Read more
Living Hell? It's Bunk, Bunk and More Bunk!
"Climate change will make earth a living hell!" claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don't believe him. The media say, "All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!" Bunk, bunk, bunk. They are addicted to scaring us. My new video covers four more myths about climate change: ...Read more
What Democratic Leaders Did Not Say About Pope Francis
When Pope Francis spoke in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 10, 2018, he was not talking about gangsters when he spoke about a "hit man." He was talking about abortion.
The pope started by citing the Fifth Commandment: "You shall not kill."
"One could say that all the evil carried out in the world can be summed up in this: contempt for life," he ...Read more
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