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Is there a disconnect between public perception of the economy and economic reality?

Houthi aggression threatens global commerce and highlights Joe Biden's fecklessness

The anti-Vietnam War protests and the protests against the war in Gaza: Compare and (mostly) contrast.

If Claudine Gay hangs in there at Harvard, there's a silver lining for conservatives.

After October 7, Israelis get their minds right about Palestinians

The Supreme Court isn't helping Smith and Chutkan put Trump on trial in early March

The uses and abuses of "personal essays" about race in the college admissions process

The "legitimacy of the Court" and all that other stuff they've spent months lying about.

Bronx public defenders get anti-anti-Semitism training in September, support Hamas in October.

Trump, the dictator? Not likely.

What David Ignatius saw on the West Bank

The Democrats Need to Dump Joe But They Just Can't Do It

The Washington Post's distorted reporting helps Hamas

Decline has consequences.

What did Biden tell Bibi? If it's what Biden claims, Bibi is right to ignore him.

Claudine Gay survives. Expect business as usual at Harvard.

Maryland governor promised to end childhood poverty. Now he can't find money to pick up litter and mow grass along state highways.

President Gay's apology

Colleges should permit extremist advocacy, but advocating genocide goes too far.

How to Translate Ivy League "Nuance" in One Easy Picture

Schumer condemns anti-Semitism on the left, but fails to understand it's real source.

The Ivy League Built Their Wokey "Microaggressions" Mush House

Democracy Must Be Defended!

What dilemma?

Foreign policy realism, unrealism, and surrealism

The mainstream media's praise of Sandra Day O'Connor isn't really about O'Connor.

America in decline, Part Two

The Stupid and Repulsive Hostage Deal Drags On and On

Remembering Henry Kissinger

Op-ed diversity, Washington Post style

A Hollywood two-fer

Israel should plan on a future with no U.S. military aid, Part Two

What is the European "far right" and why is the Washington Post saying those terrible things about it?

The Democrats' disingenuous alarm over Sen. Tuberville's blockage of military promotions

It's not complicated. The gag order against Trump in the D.C. criminal case should be lifted.

Are Gaza's civilians innocent?

The Abominable Hostage Deal

Reports: Israel and Hamas are about to make a deal on hostages

A message for our readers

Stanley Kurtz's modest proposal to transform higher education in America

The reaction by young Americans to October 7 confirms that higher education is failing us.

Media conglomerate sued for blatant discrimination against whites

Crime and incorrect punishment

A journalist's bad advice for American Jews

The issues that matter most, or should

Adult Thinking About War

More anti-Israel propaganda from the Washington Post

Washington Post spreads Hamas propaganda

Are the Trump indictments helping him with Hispanic and black voters?

Tuesday's election

Why I think a Trump second term would be worse than his first

This Is the Defense Bar You're Paying For

Obama's deep thoughts about the tragedy in the Middle East make no sense

Israel should plan on a future with no U.S. military aid

Poll: Trump leads Biden in five of six key states

On aid for Israel, both of our parties are behaving irresponsibly

The RFK Jr. phenomenon

Remembering Frank Howard

Biden Joins the Hamas Wing of the Democratic Party

Washington Post doubles down on vouching for Hamas' credibility

Gag on this

Our under-incarceration problem, sex offender and carjacker edition

Washington Post vouches for Hamas' credibility

Biden's double game acknowledged

Will a "narrowly tailored" response to aggression deter Iran?

Why Israeli forces should not be solicitous of Gaza's civilian population

Is there a Speaker in the House?

Joe Biden's double-game

We Are All Jews

Yes, to aid to Ukraine and Israel

Devolving Standards of Responsibility that Mark the Collapse of a Decaying Society

This day in baseball history: Oakland repeats as champion

The GOP has problems. Saying "no" too often isn't one of them.

Will Biden's support for Israel hurt him in November 2024?

Can Israel destroy Hamas once and for all?

On Biden's visit to Israel

"Caution,"Restraint," and Other Code Words to Get Israel Annihilated

Biden is lying about Iran's involvement in the attack on Israel.

Who's Lying about Iran's Role and Why?

This day in baseball history: Mets even World Series in sloppy thriller

Will Hamas' boosters in the U.S. foreign policy establishment face a reckoning?

Trump's embarrassing, off-key comments on the situation in Israel

This day in baseball history: Oakland is king of the American League

The claim that Israel's judicial battle led to the Hamas attacks

Give Peace a Chance?

This day in baseball history: Mets push Big Red Machine to brink, as Rose and Harrelson brawl

Joe Biden and Hamas' attack on Israel

Maryland Republicans and black Democrats agree: Tougher approach to juvenile crime is needed

After the Matt Gaetz S-Show

Black Supremacy: The Man and the Scam

A quaint bit of Americana revived: Liberal law clinic defends Kari Lake

The Baltimore Orioles: From 52 wins to 101 wins in two years

Words we don't hear enough these days: "We're not going to do that."

Is Bloomberg's report on the hiring of whites in 2021 too bad to be true?

DEI or R&R? Part Two

Pop Quiz: Who Is Andy Probst?

Vivek Ramaswamy's China connection

The left is set to give financial aid to struggling local newspapers

"Misinformation research" industry takes a well-deserved hit

Biden's in Trouble, Part V

WaPo pays homage to teacher who violated state law by making students feel discomfort about being white

Study shows the benefit conferred on minorities who attend KIPP charter schools.

U.S. Military Academy sued for race discrimination in admissions

This day in baseball history: Here come the Mets

The Mitt Myth

DEI or R&R?

Tell Me This Is Journalism. Please.

An impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden? To me, it seems justified.

Does the Fourteenth Amendment bar Trump from holding the office of president?

The Washington Post goes full tabloid on Tim Scott

DEI statements as a way to discriminate against whites in employment

The Washington Post denounces "unprecedented" efforts to investigate Trump's investigators.

Panic among beneficiaries of racial preferences as implications of Harvard decision become apparent

Biden's in Trouble, Parts II, III, and IV

Freedom Conservatives and National Conservatives are fighting important battles.

Does Johns Hopkins hate whites?

Biden's in Trouble, Part I

Jason Aldean's anti-thug song is a hit, and the Washington Post isn't amused.

White People Stink, Part Eight Zillion

No one laid a glove on DeSantis at last week's debate, but the Washington Post tried to.

How Biden's intellectual shortcomings produced disaster in Afghanistan

Martin Luther King and Barack Obama, compare and contrast

Character, color, and MLK revisionism

Be of Good Cheer!

Democracy for Me but Not for Thee

Collapsing Civilization Might Not Be Entirely Popular

Two big law firms sued for blatant racial discrimination

Notes on the GOP presidential debate

Washington Post blasts the U.S. Constitution and our democracy

What Republican Candidates Should Say, and Not Say, in this Week's Debate

With the media and public education, the left has its cake but can't eat it, too.

The Georgia indictment

All the Options Are Bad, Part II

The Biden administration tells colleges how they can keep engaging in race discrimination

The Washington Post's sickening hit piece on "the man behind Florida's new black history standards"

Will Trump Beat Biden in the General Election?

Iowa isn't an ideal state for Trump, but he's far ahead there

This day in baseball history: The three Alou brothers shine in thriller at Yankee Stadium

The two U.S. economies

Leftists bristle at non-soccer related blowback against the U.S. Women's soccer team.

What a Collapsing Civilization Looks Like

Was Rutherford B. Hayes a criminal?

A new twist on an old story

U.S women crash out of World Cup

David Brooks impersonates a Trump supporter

Why has Joe Biden delayed providing Ukraine with needed weapons, only to supply them in the end?

I Am Not a Witch

The third Trump indictment

Building the Whiner Elite

Tim Scott embraces another Democrat talking point on race.

Poll shows Glenn Youngkin is the toast of Virginia.

Democrats Embrace the Cornerstone of Fascism

It's crying time again. . .and again and again

Greg Gutfeld and Ron DeSantis face the consequences of telling historical truths.

A bad argument against Israel's judicial reform bill

Israel adopts pro-democracy law, all hell breaks loose.

This day in baseball history: An all-star game to forget

Report: Trump plans major expansion of presidential power over federal bureaucracies.

"No labels"

What about legacy admissions?

King Biden and the Grand Vizier from Harvard

Do We Have a Two-Tiered Justice System?

The mainstream media's shameless, and totally predictable, spin of the House GOP's defense bill

The Real Reason Trump Is Beating DeSantis

Ron DeSantis' woes

Of course, Asian-Americans are "model minorities"

A warning to colleges from the head of Students for Fair Admissions

Biden family matters

Why Hope Is Disappearing from America

A liberal bemoans the lack of hope in America.

Is GOP populism a person or a movement?

Joe Biden's Ministry of Truth

New York Times says Justice Jackson "came to play."

The Telling Omissions of the NYT's Bad Argument for Continuing Race-Based Admissions

Who is to blame for the erosion of trust in America?

Race-based preference proponents seek federal investigation into legacy admissions at Harvard.

Bad arguments in defense of race-based admissions policies, Part Two

Time to Play Offense

Bad arguments in defense of race-based admissions policies, Part One

What's next when it comes to race in college admissions?

"Our democracy"

Harvard and Dartmouth promise to keep discriminating on the basis of race

The Constitution Is Still Alive at the Supreme Court

Democracy, populism, and wealth concentration

The New York Times Does Crime Analysis...

If You've Been Hankering to Be a Cat, I've Got Good News.

Behind the drive to impose the extremist LBGTQ agenda

Extremist Dems fare well in Virginia primary

It's Not Trump and It's Not Biden That's Killing America, but Something They Have in Common

Biden calls Xi a dictator, heads explode

Hunter Biden's plea deal

Big cause envy

Q: Can You Believe Anything You Read?

Trump's interview with Bret Baier

The Left's Vision for America, Captured in One City

If We Can't Win with Numbers Like This, It's Time to Move to Neptune

Big city police chiefs join their officers in rush to exit

Pardon politics

All the Options Are Bad

Race-based admissions policies are misguided for military academies, too.

Why so few "home run" Republican-appointed Justices?

Trump's three Supreme Court appointees are not "home runs."

"Lawfare" looks at the Trump indictment

The Trump indictment

Notes on the Trump indictment

It's a ten-person race for the GOP nomination.

Trump's rant against his likely indictment for obstruction of justice is rubbish.

How DeSantis Can Win

Wokeness, RINOs, and truth in labeling

The Left's Favorite Toy: Scaremongering

Tehran, Damascus, and Moscow to coordinate stepped up attacks on U.S. forces in Syria.

Trump hits new low in name-calling. And spelling.

An obstruction of justice case against Trump?

The Flabbergasting and Dangerous Dishonesty of the Press

The debt ceiling deal in context

I'm not sure what the debt ceiling deal teaches us.

The Never Trumpers are also Never DeSantis.

Making Race-Blind Admissions Stick

Ron DeSantis' bet

Fourth Circuit upholds racial discrimination by elite high school

Remembering Jim Brown

Dumbest publicity stunt of the year? NAACP warns blacks not to visit Florida.

Tim Scott is running for president

C. Boyden Gray, February 6, 1943 - May 21, 2023

Joe Biden, leading from far behind

America in decline

Biden-appointed US Attorney Resigns in Disgrace

The Jungle Always Wants to Grow Back

The Real Threats to Democracy...

Daniel Penny, Jordan Neely, and the Perils of Riding the New York City Subway

Race and Crime

Equal Justice Under Law...

White People Stink

What's the Leading Cause of Death of Americans in the Prime of Their Lives?

The Most Obvious Possible Case for the Appointment of a Special Counsel

Biden's in Big Trouble and the Democrats Need Someone to Dump On

Who Really Sponsors Corrupting Influence on the Supreme Court?

The Attacks on Justice Sonia Sotomayor

The Attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas

Has Excessive Use of Plea Bargaining Undermined the Constitutional Right to Trial?

Ron DeSantis Again Demonstrates the Right Instincts

It's vacation time

Joe Biden, the economy, and the Fed

Thwarted and frustrated, D.C.'s respected police chief joins the exodus from his force.

Virginia's chief diversity officer tells VMI conference "DEI is dead"

The debt ceiling standoff

Our disgracefully chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan

Blacks and whites agree: Virginia's public schools provide equal opportunity

Regarding Tucker Carlson

Afghanistan is once again a staging ground for terrorism, says U.S. intelligence report

Tom Cotton schools Biden's Deputy Attorney General

Stanford Law School’s Black Law Students Association will boycott recruiting events

Judge Vyskocil schools Alvin Bragg

Poll: DeSantis closes gap, but still trails Trump by big margin

Fox News settles the Dominion case.

Court of appeals permits prosecution of Jan. 6 protesters under "obstruction of official proceeding" statute

Why DeSantis' pushback against woke education is so vital

A notice to our readers

Joe Biden fails the global test

Biden's nominee for Secretary of Labor is in trouble

When the open borders crowd has lost Denmark. . .the Danes must be racist.

More on Judge Vyskocil

Update on Judge Vyskocil

Bragg sues to stop Jim Jordan's investigation of the Trump prosecution

To what degree is the media responsible for our culture wars?

Why is Trump attacking black prosecutors who investigate him?

Kamala Harris embraces the disruption of Tennessee's legislature.

Two Democratic members of Congress urge Biden to ignore court ruling on abortion pill.

Tennessee House expels two members who led protests on the chamber's floor.

"The Peaceful Transfer of Power" and all that other stuff they never meant

Judge orders release from jail of man who attacked congresswoman.

From Stanford law school, a damning and frightening confession

NCAA women's final draws record viewership

Yes, George Soros did fund Alvin Bragg.

A debate on DEI

Remembering Bill Walton and Bill Bradley, and celebrating Kaitlin Clark

The Trump indictment

Politico's strange new respect for Glenn Youngkin

An afternoon at the ballpark

Your Tax Dollars Not At Work

When the Washington Post Touts "Criminal Justice Reform"...

Note to Readers

What should we make of that Wall Street Journal survey on shifting American values?

TikTok charm offensive fails on Capitol Hill, succeeds at Washington Post.

The Washington Post helped break D.C.'s police force.

Time to Fight Back, and How to Win When We Do

Washington Post asks what's the matter with Iowa

Thoughts on Dean Martinez's response to the Stanford shout-down

The Aftermath at Stanford Law

Silicon Valley Bank and ESG

Columnist blames Trump for inflexibility of Biden's foreign policy

A message to our readers

The left's anti-DeSantis line emerges: he's a "divider."

We're Underincarcerated, Part Ten Zillion

DeSantis on regime change in Russia

Judge Kyle Duncan Details His Experience at Stanford

DeSantis on Ukraine

Forget Your Physician and See the Witch Doctor

Why is the number of Jews in elite America plummeting?

The Stanford Mob Isn't Going Away

Biden Justice Department to investigate Memphis police in wake of Tyre Nichols killing.

Stanford's Comically Idiotic Response to Brownshirts Running the Show

Mob Rule at Stanford Law School, Part II

De Santis understands that free market capitalism isn't a suicide pact.

Want some good news?

Stanford Law School Replaces Yale as No. 1....

Thermidor Arrives

Dominion's damning discovery

New frontiers in "equity" -- the push for a color-conscious IRS

The left's vision of "equity" is the opposite of equitable

Trump's anti-DeSantis talking points

The Terror of Latin Mass

Biden says he won't veto measure nixing D.C.'s soft-on-crime law.

WaPo op-ed explains Republican concern about voting fraud. . .nonsensically

Chicago rejects disastrous Lori Lightfoot

The U.S. as "systemically racist" -- reality or "a bunch of horse manure"?

WaPo fact checker rejects Buttigieg's claim that Trump’s regulatory reform caused Ohio wreck.

Scott Adams cancelled for being "racist"

The school choice movement picks up steam

"Implicit bias training"-- a scam with an insidious purpose

How much anger about wokeism should GOP candidates display?

Should DeSantis Run as the Angry Warrior (Trump) or the Happy Warrior (Reagan)?

The Washington Post explains Republican anti-wokeism

Tucker Carlson is a flawed vehicle for getting at the truth about Jan. 6.

Dozens of Baltimore and Chicago schools fail to produce even one student proficient in math.

The triumph of Calvin Coolidge

More Talk, More Action, and Making Them Pay a Price

Ron DeSantis: "All action and no talk"

Subversion Impersonating Gibberish

What You're Not Hearing About the Michigan State Shooting

Pete Buttigieg's bizarre invocation of race following the Ohio toxic chemical spill

Washington D.C.'s new woke, anti-American social studies curriculum

Orthodox black history: its frauds and its erasures

Two more Trump World attacks on DeSantis

Trump rips DeSantis for once supporting privatizing Social Security.

Woke Utopianism is destined to fail.

DeSantis balks at revised AP African-American Studies curriculum

Lowering Standards for Police Hiring Has Consequences, Now on Display at the Morgue

The American case for supporting Ukraine

The Moral Imperative of the Death Penalty, Part II

Chinese spy balloons under Trump?

For D.C.'s federal employees, 90 percent of life is not showing up

The left's strange new respect for corporate speech

Washington Post Moves "Beyond Objectivity" to Root for Chinese Spy Balloon

Former WaPo executive editor defends "moving beyond objectivity."

Nikki Haley for president?

Why Preserving the Death Penalty Is Essential for America

Blinken's "vision"

What can we learn from the Tyre Nichols debacle?

Does Trump still have it?

Five Things That Are Killing America

Biden trails Buttigieg in New Hampshire poll

Trump kicks off active campaigning with events in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

The DOJ's latest antitrust suit against Google

The Real Problem with Obsessing About Black Studies

College Board backs down on APAAS, for now

DeSantis is right about AP African-American Studies.

What happens if the Supreme Court rules against Harvard and UNC in the race-preference cases?

Who Bears Accountability for Violent Crime, Lori Lightfoot Edition

The phony war over "equivalence"

Princeton University Press discriminates on the basis of race in handing out book grants

DeSantis nixes radical AP African-American Studies course as violating state law.

What Republicans Should Do About the Debt Ceiling

The evolution of Martin Luther King

There's an important difference between the document removals of Trump and Biden.

DOJ investigates local Texas decision to remove LGBTQ books from school libraries

What three police shootings in LA tell us

Who Bears Accountability for Violent Crime?

Is the "deep state" behind revelations of document mishandling by Biden?

What obligation do talk show hosts have to fact check their guests' statements?

When Lying Is a Public Outrage, and When It's Just Grandpa Exaggerating

Florida measure to gauge extent of campus free speech is on trial for "chilling" free speech.

DeSantis wisely shuns the mainstream media

Why are we only now finding out about Biden's improper retention of documents?

Income inequality in America: How much is there, really?

Obsession: Speakership battle reminds senior Washington Post writer of Jan. 6.

The personal cost of Elise Stefanik's support for Trump

What the fuss over an Israeli minister's visit to the Temple Mount tells us

What's at stake in the fight for the Speakership?

Is Trump correct in citing the abortion issue to explain the GOP's midterm fizzle?

Joe Biden, Leading the Fight Against Violent Crime, and Other Fables

Joe Biden, comeback Octogenarian?

Jan. 6 Committee's harassment of Ginni Thomas ends without even a whimper

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