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Quiet Quitting: Joe Biden's Disappearing Presidency
WASHINGTON -- The Wall Street Journal ran a story Thursday under the banner "How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge." Tuesday's New York Times story "A Weary Biden Heads For the Exit" told a similar tale, as departing staffers have starting spilling the beans.
If this were a game of "Tell me something I didn't know,"...Read more
Thoughts on Fatherhood: A Post-Birth Dispatch
One year ago, almost to the day, I used this column as a "post-wedding dispatch" to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on marriage. The column was published five days after my wedding. Now, almost exactly one year later, I am using this column as a "post-birth dispatch" to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on another milestone life ...Read more
The Obama Doctrine Is Dead!
The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases.
While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it's obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential, blunder by the Islamic State as well as a stunning defeat for its allies both in the Middle East...Read more
Shocker! PolitiFact Tags Trump For 'Lie of the Year' For the 7th Time!
Don't call PolitiFact an "independent fact-checker." When they assemble to select their "Lie of the Year," they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.
It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: "A lie marked a town and its...Read more
The Decline and Fall of The Wall Street Journal
Many American institutions have beclowned themselves in the past 10 years -- too many to list. To count the right-leaning institutions that have not succumbed to Trumpian populism takes only one hand. But the decline of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page has been particularly galling because, compared to the Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale ...Read more
Trump's Success: Who'd Have Thunk It?
Who'd have thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin's hold on power seems undermined by imperial overstretch, and the mullahs of Iran have been unable to defend their skies and their leaders' hotel rooms from Israeli attacks.
Leaders of the two largest nations in the European Union have been...Read more
It feels like 2013 again.
Back then, a beleaguered Republican Speaker of the House was forced into a government shutdown by firebrands in his caucus who considered him insufficiently pure.
A revolution in GOP politics has happened since, and yet a beleaguered Republican Speaker of the House has been forced to the verge of a government ...Read more
Instead of Threatening War, Americans Should Say 'Gracias' to Mexico for Being a Good Neighbor
SAN DIEGO -- As a Mexican American, my loyalties get questioned. Some folks offer a hypothetical. If war breaks out between Mexico and the United States, they ask, which side would I be on?
That's a no-brainer. My family and I owe everything to the country that took in my grandfather as a legal immigrant 100 years ago. And we owe nothing to ...Read more
Shoot the Drones!
The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there have been between 3,000 and 5,000 reports of large drones -- some about the ...Read more
The Drone Invasion: Ignorance, Incompetence or Both?
Remember Orson Welles' radio drama "The War of the Worlds," featuring a terrifying Martian invasion? By a stroke of luck, the narrative was apocryphal.
This time, we may not be so fortunate. Mushrooming reports from California and New Jersey have revealed swarms of surveillance drones above sensitive areas, in what might be a dress rehearsal ...Read more
Regulations' Enormous Costs and DOGE's Enormous Upside
The Department of Government Efficiency has made a promise: It will go after regulations that slow growth, obstruct innovators and cost American households thousands of dollars each year. Here's hoping for success.
The burden of excessive regulation is hard to measure. We know, for instance, that the Code of Federal Regulations is over 188,...Read more
'My God, There Is Light'
In the wake of the collapse of the Syrian government, CNN reporter Clarissa Ward and her team were in Damascus last week, looking for any sign of American journalist Austin Tice, alleged to be held in a Syrian prison since 2012. Although they did not find Tice, they did find a man alone in a cell of an abandoned prison. He claimed to ...Read more
The Ultimate Gift
In past years I have suggested going beyond Christmas and other holiday gifts that will soon be forgotten, returned or worn out, in favor of one that will last for generations to come.
Last year I wrote about the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which provides private school tuition for poor and middle-class children in failing public schools. ...Read more
2024's Biggest News Story: Trump Survives Assassination To Win Most Significant US Election Since 1980
On July 13, 2024, as he turned to consult a chart, an assassin's bullet grazed the presidential candidate's right ear.
A half-inch to the right -- to be graphic, the bullet hitting the human being's head -- and 2024's biggest news story would be the history-destroying murder of Donald Trump.
The bad guy missed. Instead, we witness the ...Read more
The Dumbest Fallacy in Foreign Policy
Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three forces: first, Israel's military utterly eviscerated Assad's foreign military support base, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia; second, Ukraine has bled dry the Russian military coffers over the course ...Read more
The press must resist Trump’s bullying lawsuits
In his first week as a federal judge, Murray Gurfein was assigned the biggest case of his life.
He’d just been nominated to the Southern District of New York by President Richard Nixon in April 1971...Read more
Did Luigi Mangione Murder Because of 'Emotional Disturbance'?
According to coverage in The Wall Street Journal in the case against Luigi Mangione, suspected of murdering the CEO of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel, potential arguments in his defense will be his "mental state at the time of the killing."
"Two defenses in New York state -- a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and claiming ...Read more
Who's to Blame for Your Lousy Insurance Coverage?
Everyone's blaming health insurance company greed for the soaring claims denials and roadblocks to care. That's naive. Follow the money to find the real culprits: lying politicians.
In 2013, before Affordable Care Act regulations kicked in, insurers denied roughly 1.5% of claims, according to the American Medical Association. But under ACA ...Read more
Universities Are the Real Villians!
The movie "The Matrix" gave us the "red pill" and the "blue pill." The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated. Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it think the world is doomed. So, podcaster Michael Malice wrote the book "The White Pill," calling it a "symbol of hope." "Young people in recent years,...Read more
Christmas Together
During the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco -- to visit some animals that were gathered there.
This was the Tenderloin District, which attracted drug dealers, drug users and a sad number of homeless people.
Our destination was ...Read more
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