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I was sitting in my home office not far from the Pentagon when it happened. The TV behind me had the sound lowered, but I suddenly became aware of a...
The diagnosis was not a surprise – well, yes it was, because like many men with a health issue we try to deny it, or delay treatment when everyone...
If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November...
The woman in the grocery store checkout line had an accent. While we waited for our items to be rung up, I asked her where she was from....
When I attended a much different public school in suburban Maryland, there was a public service announcement on TV that asked: "It's 10...
Golden anniversaries used to be special celebrations in the days when people got married and stayed married. This year marks the golden anniversary,...
"We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can't do if we do it together."- President Joe Biden I am not in the habit...
When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from “Help”), television networks would rerun programs that had...
It has become a truism that people who are embracing socialism have never had to live under it and its ideological twin, communism. Young people seem...
Troy Jackson, the Maine Democratic Party prospective nominee for the Senate, is Graham Platner lite. Platner withdrew from the race to face incumbent...
The oath is a familiar one. The president and vice president take it, as do members of Congress and many other high government officials. It requires...
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase "Plus ça change, plus...
The troubles Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing (he may have withdrawn by the time you read this) are only a small part of his...
The troubles Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing (he may have withdrawn by the time you read this) are only a small part of his...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a Fourth of July message that sounded like America is on its deathbed. Immigrant citizens standing on...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, self-evident truths meant something. Today, for some, things appear far less self-evident and truth has become...
Following last week's primary elections, in which the rise of Democratic-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike...
President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the “Memo of Understanding” (MOU) with Iran is a...
Those of a certain age — meaning roughly 65 or older — will recall the "Bicentennial Minute." These were one-minute homages to the...
President Trump’s interim peace deal with Iran, which has partially opened the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil prices tumbling (but not yet gas...
The late broadcast journalist David Brinkley once observed: “Objectivity is impossible to normal human behavior. Rather, we should strive for...
The late broadcast journalist David Brinkley once observed: "Objectivity is impossible to normal human behavior. Rather, we should strive for...
How can Graham Platner, who might win the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine in Tuesday's primary election, ever be seriously...
In one month, the United States will observe its 250th birthday. It is shaping up more like a memorial service for a lost loved one than a party to...
Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn't seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt, and...
At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of...
Liberals live in a happy bubble: Even when they're proven wrong about things like climate change, they simply move on to the next cause.
It’s so easy and comfortable being a liberal. You never have to admit you’re wrong when you’re demonstrably wrong. Neither do you have to be...
It's so easy and comfortable being a liberal. You never have to admit you're wrong when you're demonstrably wrong. Nor do you have to...
I am not an economist, but I do have some personal experience with the principles of economics and the rules that allow especially Americans to...
It must be the highlight for any Roman Catholic to meet the head of his church. So it must have been last week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a...
It's the most wonderful time of the year — and I don't mean Christmas. It's the time when Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)...
It must be the highlight for any Roman Catholic to meet the head of his church. So it must have been last week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a...
The headline in The Washington Post said: “Trump disapproval reaches new high, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds.” The subheadline read: “Democrats now...
President Trump canceled a delegation of U.S. negotiators about to head to Islamabad for continued negotiations with Iran because it appeared no one...
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is usually a predictable affair. Journalists and celebrities gather to reinforce their credentials as...
The president might play offense at the Washington media's self-congratulatory shindig — or hit them with a curveball they'd never expect.
“War is Hell,” said Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1879. Pope Leo and three cardinals of the Catholic Church who appeared last Sunday...
"War is Hell," said Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1879. Pope Leo and three cardinals of the Catholic Church, who appeared last...
Democrats are again trying to pry some of the religious vote from Republicans, but their actions expose the insincerity of their approach. The latest...
Watching the enthusiasm, especially among people younger than me, over the Artemis II mission around the moon, recalled that the last men to land on...
Pope Leo XIV used part of his Palm Sunday message to castigate the United States for attempting to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and...
Since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, government officials have said their greatest fear is self-radicalized individuals they call “lone...
Since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, government officials have said their greatest fear is self-radicalized individuals they call "lone...
We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like...
In sports, the instant replay was invented and first used by a man named Tony Verna on the Dec. 7, 1963 broadcast of the Army-Navy football game on...
In sports, the instant replay was invented and first used by a man named Tony Verna on the Dec. 7, 1963, broadcast of the Army-Navy football game on...
Even someone with a rudimentary understanding of economics should know that if you tax a business or individual beyond their level of tolerance, they...
President Trump has acted as no other president has by unleashing a war on Iran whose objective is not only preventing the ayatollahs from ever...
President Trump has signed an executive order creating a task force to crack down on fraud in government programs. It will be headed by Vice President...