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Is there any terrorist regime whose talking points the Washington Post won't echo?

Donald Trump drowns little girls

Ketanji Brown Jackson, from failing law firm associate to embarrassing associate Supreme Court Justice

Joe Biden did us a favor at SCOTUS...

Trump-Putin peace talks go nowhere, for an obvious reason.

Why the Left hates July 4 but sometimes pretends to celebrate it.

New York City as Bowdoin on the Hudson

One big ugly mess

Rooting for Iran

Trump and the Europeans "play" each other. NATO wins.

For the Democrats, back to the drawing board.

Notes on the 12-Day War

The winner in New York City's Democratic primary

The ninnies squawk, the caravan moves on

Was Trump's bombing Iran constitutional?

America, love it or admit that you don't

Trump does the deed.

Trump in the political center?

"Hipster patriots," a sorry lot

The Iran-Israel war reminds us that American anti-Semitism isn't confined to the left.

Finish it

Regime change in Iran? Israel should go for it, but not count on it.

Sometimes a parade is just a parade

Can, meet end of road

Netanyahu enforces Trump's deadline

Is the public on board with Trump's troop deployment?

Was it necessary to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles?

Gavin Newsom channels Jefferson Davis

Trump has the authority to use the National Guard to quell riots designed to prevent immigration law enforcement

The Flight 93 presidency

In trying to embarrass Linda McMahon, Congresswoman shows herself to be ignorant and close-minded.

Trump vs. Musk: Clash of titans or clear mismatch?

The sixth thing that is killing America

The naming/renaming game

The reckoning isn't that far off

The Trump administration is scrapping discrimination cases that are based on disparate impact analysis.

Public opinion shown graphically

Why Trump is likely to lose the big tariff cases when they get to the Supreme Court

The Washington Post's opinion pages aren't getting better.

Trump attacks Leonard Leo.

The Palestinian Authority won't protect Israel from terrorism.

Can the Democrats figure out why they're in the wilderness?

Putin hasn't gone crazy and he hasn't changed.

Memorial Day

Why do our allies object to Israel fighting its war the way wars typically are fought?

You can't make this up.

How not to end a war

Killing Jews for fun and profit...

Authoritarianism, attacking free speech, and covering up is exactly what we're getting...

Remembering Michael Ledeen

The hellish suffering of the Palestinians

The Trump administration's full-court press against Harvard

Trump's Executive Order on drug prices addresses a very real problem.

Did Jim Comey call for the murder of Donald Trump?

Joe Biden's steep decline: A tale of two coverups

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson gain posthumous Hall of Fame eligibility.

Trump flies Air Qatar

DEI without the mask

Trump's Justice Department

The global economic order has unraveled.

International law is an ass

Trump fires woke Librarian of Congress

Trump's Childish, Erratic, and Dangerous "Strategy"on Iran's Nukes

Democratic Prosecutor Dumps Racist Poison into Charging Decisions and Dispositions

Report: Boys being investigated for saying they're uncomfortable with girls in their locker room

Report: Biden administration considered trying to oust Netanyahu by "scrambling" Israeli politics after the October 7 massacre

Q. What is the Democrats' beef with "oligarchs"?

Substantively, a good week for Trump

Supreme Court decision could spur surge in Catholic schooling

The dangers of radicalism, both Democratic and Republican

Princeton discriminates against whites, Asians, Jews, and conservatives as a matter of policy

The Left wanted big, coercive government...

Arresting a judge who breaks the law does not amount to war on the judiciary

China's built-in advantage in trade war with U.S. is already apparent

High minded blather impersonating Deep Thought

Poll: Trump's approval rating is down to 42 percent.

The far left and the MAGA right find a common enemy -- "oligarchs."

Harvard's championing of the rule of law rings hollow given the college's unlawful race-based admissions policy.

Why is Trump showing obvious contempt for courts?

Trump aims to counter self-flagellation in the teaching of American history.

Leftists attack Bill Maher for honestly recounting his meeting with Trump

Jackie Robinson's legacy is not under attack

Liberals balk at Ed Martin's praiseworthy initiative to get guns off the streets of D.C. because he's charging too many blacks.

Q: What's the difference between the New York City trash police and the Stasi?

Is the administration using Columbia as a test case to enforce its agenda?

How to win at the Supreme Court and how to lose.

Supreme Court rejects administration's view that it can deport without a hearing

Anti-Israel protesters again demonstrate their anti-semitism and disregard for free expression

Maryland to give murderers a "second look"

"The Encampments:" An anti-Israel film so dishonest that even the Washington Post's critic sees through it.

Question on the tariffs: Four dimensional chess or a fool's errand?

Trump says Putin pissed him off. How will Trump respond?

Cory Booker does what he does best, talk for no purpose other than publicity

Trump administration horrifies the left by attacking DEI practices that violate the law.

The end of Madness?

Trump order strives to end "ideological indoctrination and divisive, distorted narratives" at federal sites and museums dedicated to American history.

Your money is funding NPR.

Two conflicting ideas for combatting pitching-arm injuries and improving baseball

Tyranny has a foothold in America

Trump's decision to shut down Voice of America makes sense

It used to be easy for big law firms to be "brave." Now, not so much.

Trump's brawl with the judiciary escalates

The Washington Post equates Putin and Netanyahu

I swear I'm not making this up.

In the debate over the judicial struggles of the Trump administration, both sides have a point.

The Democrats are impotent and frustrated, but don't mistake them for dead or dying.

President Trump, frittering away public support..........or maybe not.

What's in a name change?

Washington Post touts unserious plan for Gaza

Congress has created programs that dole out money to colleges that admit blacks and Hispanics at or above a fixed percentage.

Trump administration seeks to deport green card holder who led violent protests at Columbia

Frame this!

Federal prosecutor threatens law school for teaching DEI in any way.

Trump ends radically intrusive "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" rule

What's with the Democrats, cont'd.

Hollywood honors anti-Israel film.

What's with the Democrats, Part Eight Trillion

Against foreign policy radicalism

How lack of belief in American virtues has infected Silicon Valley, to the detriment of our national security

Andrew Cuomo is back

What's with Trump? Part III

Remembering Gene Hackman

A no-brainer for the Supreme Court

Maybe I won't have to cancel my subscription to the Washington Post when I stop blogging, after all

"The Gulf of America"? A silly stunt gives rise to a serious lawsuit.

Polls suggest Trump's honeymoon period is over. Does it matter?

Why has Trump bad-mouthed Zelensky to such a degree?

What's with Trump? Part II

Some thoughts on the slashing of the federal workforce

Suddenly, liberals say they're okay with Trump tackling problems they caused or ignored. They just disagree with how he's going about it.

The EEOC reverses course on transgender policy

Trump Department of Education warns schools not to discriminate based on race.

Sean Spicer's revenge

What's with Trump?

Where's the anti-Trump resistance? In the courts, where liberal judges are resisting abusively.

"Trust but verify" is probably too generous a rule for dealing with Putin.

Lack of shakeup at DOJ's Civil Rights Division jeopardizes policing in Minneapolis

Trump pardons Rod Blagojevich. Why?

No shakeup yet at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division

Calvin Coolidge's speech for the ages

On foreign aid and the U.S. Agency for International Development

The Left's Love for Big Government Is Impenetrable, and Constitutes Much of the Reason It Hates Trump.

Three blasts from the (liberal) past.

Seven things you can't say about China

Facing a reckoning, DEI goes into a defensive crouch.

Trump's popularity is small and precarious.

The longest month

Gabbard sticks to her guns; Patel holsters his; Kennedy does some of both.

David Brooks is right. Elite colleges are harming America.

DEI and Palestinian-friendly memes drop the mask

The humanitarian case for large-scale immigration from Latin America isn't what it used to be.

Washington Post portrays Colombia as winner in immigration showdown with Trump.

Senate confirms Hegseth and Noem

Trump strikes a blow against the anti-police crowd with pardons for two D.C. cops

Trump strikes a huge blow against DEI

Trump has been "normalized."

Joe Biden completes his shameful race to the rule-of-law bottom

A grotesque 30 days for the rule of law

Hamas is the winner in deal Trump imposed on Israel

Are both of our major political parties radical?

The Bondi hearing

How to lie while sort of telling the truth

The Israel-Hamas deal

The Hegseth hearing

Is the DOGE populist?

The delusional Joe Biden

A leftist looks at Biden's economic legacy.

How should the news industry cover Trump?

Facebook steps back from censorship; Washington Post's head explodes

Investigate Kristen Clarke

Joe Biden's parting gift to Minneapolis, ineffective policing guaranteed

Is Jake Sullivan a "brilliant young strategist" or just a relatively young one?

Harris' willingness to certify the election result is not praiseworthy.

Weak economies, low fertility rates, and the Russia threat put Europe on the brink after a grim 2024

The fallback defense of Joe Biden: It's just going to take time to realize all the good he did.

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