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I am not a fan of hidden microphone ambushes. It’s sneaky and dishonest. The kind of ambush that journalist and activist Lauren Windsor pulled off at the recent Supreme Court Historical Society dinner was particularly unseemly because she posed as a conservative activist type and attempted ...
Russia’s aims and tactics in its war against Ukraine and Hamas’ in its war against Israel are remarkably similar. Russia’s troops poured across its border with Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. It was the largest invasion of an independent country in Europe since World War II. Hamas ...
Vladimir Putin doesn’t have enough Russians to maintain the full fury of his barbaric assault on Ukraine, so he is sending African workers and students to the frontlines, threatening the visas of those who won’t go. One must ask why the anti-Israel left, so sensitive to racist ...
For more than 20 years, I have held one position constant when it comes to immigration policy: We should have one. I am less concerned about the number of immigrants we take in every year than I am about the fact that we — voters, policymakers, politicians, what have you — don’t pick a ...
Finding the last good Republican president was not hard in light of the moving 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on the beaches and by the cliffs of Normandy, France. In military annals, the Allies storming Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, went down as the most extraordinary land, ...
As American politics have become more polarized in the era of former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, we also hear it sound more paranoid. The dueling scandals of Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, where he was found guilty on all 34 felony counts, and Hunter Biden’s trial on ...