Bad leadership? Dragging on all of the most important issues with voters? Impotent? If those applied to the Republican party in a nationwide survey at any time, the results would get screamed in the headlines, or at least in the lede of the report from the media outlet that commissioned the poll. Instead, CNN led...
No, Jamie Dimon isn’t predicting an invasion of or civil war in the United States, but during his wide-ranging discussion at the Reagan National Economic Forum, he did issue some dire warnings about how American policymakers have made some very poor decisions in recent years that threaten economic turmoil in the near term and our...
Are the Hamasholes feeling empowered yet? Sure seems like it. This is unbelievable, reading an eyewitness account and watching the aftermath of what happened. I guess it’s been a regularly scheduled, little peaceful demonstration for this group on Sundays. They show up at the pedestrian mall between these streets with their flags and Israeli signs...
On Wednesday evening, the world’s wealthiest man announced that his sojourn in the nation’s capital is almost over. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President (Donald Trump) for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Elon Musk posted to X,...
Piers Morgan, in a February podcast, accused his guest, “trans activist” Blossom Brown, of “race-baiting.” Brown replied, “Black women cannot be racist to white women.” Brown then added this inability to be racist to white women extended to Morgan: “How am I racist to you? I’m Black. I can’t be racist...
This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 16:15–20: Jesus said to his disciples: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they...
Left-wing mayoral candidates and a newly launched “housing justice” group are promising a multiyear rent freeze on the city’s nearly 1 million rent-regulated units. That’s more than half the rental apartments in Gotham. It’s a cynical political strategy: Pander to a block of single-issue voters almost too large to resist —...
There’s a bit of a media brawl taking place this week over the issue of USAID funding which was cut off by DOGE. At base it’s an argument over whether the cutting off of that funding has had any clearly discernible effects in places around the globe. There is a Boston University professor named Brooke...
Bizarrely, 62% of young Americans hold a “favorable view” of socialism. How can they be so ignorant? Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It’s failed. It always fails. China prospered somewhat only after they legalized some private...
Today’s headlines focus on yet another round of the Hamas Hokey Pokey. The real story may be its coming irrelevance. Hamas spent most of the last few days repeatedly claiming to have accepted the terms of a Steven Witkoff cease-fire framework. Twice this week, Hamas tried to game negotiations by declaring support for terms not...
WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania — Local steelworkers, community leaders and economic experts said President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic “big, beautiful deal” the 47th president has made. ...
Is anyone really surprised by this? Even at the White House, which had hoped for a peace agreement rather than a confrontation? Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is its timing, given the context of the current situation. The UN’s nuclear watchdog has completed an investigation...
The court battles over tariffs got all the attention this week but that wasn’t the only sign the Trump administration is still engaged in a trade war with China. On Wednesday the administration suspended the sale of jet engines and some high tech chips and software as well. The target of these new restrictions seems...
Mayor Brandon Johnson – that’s a whole lotta nuthin’ in three words. If ever there was a less deserving, more unqualified, more ethically challenged, and intellectually and emotionally unprepared for being a dogcatcher, less mind mayor of Chicago than this pathetic excuse of a teachers’ union tool, I’ve never seen it. The one thing he...
We have been bombarded by commentary that Trump has taken a serious hit in the polls, and that his voters are suffering from “buyer’s remorse.” I can’t tell you the number of times I have seen “influencers” tell stories about Trump voters coming up to them and confessing that they regret voting for Trump, and...