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Arthur Herman, If you are trying to understand what all the hoopla regarding President Trump’s so-called refugee ban is about—and what the Democrats’ overall strategy is in dealing with Trump-you’d better go watch “The Sting.” That 1973 classic directed by George Roy Hill is about two “grifters” or con men played by Robert Redford and
Donna Rachel Edmunds, Times columnist and author India Knight has called for the assassination of U.S. President, Donald J. Trump. During a days-long invective against the newly inaugurated President, on Twitter in which Knight called Mr Trump a “moron”, “mad”, “needy”, and an “arse”, among other things, before telling him to “shut up”, she mused
Two Republican senators on Monday unveiled one of the first ObamaCare replacement bills of the new Congress — a state-centric plan they admit is imperfect but describe as a tangible start to overhauling the 2010 health care law on a bipartisan basis. “We recognize that our bill is not perfect,” said Maine Sen. Susan Collins,
Todd Starnes, Trump supporter Scott Koleskey had stowed his backpack in the overhead compartment and was about to settle into his window seat when he was verbally flogged by a fellow passenger. It happened Saturday on board an Alaska Airlines flight from Baltimore to Seattle. “She immediately asked me, ‘Did you come to cheer or
Peter Berkowitz, By his flamboyance, crudity, and eclectic priorities as well as by his explicit statements, President Donald Trump has made it clear that the Republican Party is not identical to conservatism. That has always been true of the modern GOP dominated by Ronald Reagan’s long shadow. But the 2016 divergence was of unprecedented proportions.
David French, National Review Last winter, when the Republican presidential primary was in full swing, I had a late-night dinner with a campus minister who was working with students at an Ivy League school. Describing the college climate, he said, “Everything’s about race now. Two years ago it was sexuality, then came the Obergefell decision,
U.S. Speaker Paul Ryan and his Republican lieutenants want to hit fellow lawmakers with fines and potential ethics violations if they engage in live-streaming or other disruptions on the House floor. The move is a belated response to this summer’s 25-hour sit-in by Democrats protesting Republican inaction on gun-control legislation. Under the proposed new rules
Howard Bloom, If you can kill a kafir [a person who does not believe in Islam] American or European…then rely upon Allah, and kill them in any manner possible. -Dabiq, the magazine of the Islamic State, Issue 12, November 18, 2021 ISIS—the Islamic State—may be losing territory in Iraq and Syria, but it has spread
Debra J. Saunders, When you see videos of Hollywood celebrities — like the latest with Martin Sheen, Debra Messing and Bob Odenkirk — earnestly telling Americans how to live up to their brand of liberal politics by rejecting the GOP, the first question you have to ask yourself is: Why? I still ask myself that
Ian Hanchett, On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” co-host Chris Cuomo asked if his fellow co-host Alisyn Camerota, felt the urge to tell a group of Clinton supporters she interviewed, “shut up, it’s over, get on with it, start focusing on something productive?” Cuomo reacted to a panel of Clinton supporters and how they
Donald Stratton, Editor’s note: The following column is adapted from “All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor’s Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor.“ I was aboard the USS Arizona on the morning of December 7, 1941. The courage I saw in our men was astonishing. Those gallant sailors fought back however they could. Pilots tried to
Robert Knight, One thing the election reinforced is that “tolerance” is the last thing progressives actually want. The vitriol-laden media coverage, student demonstrations and other forms of protest against the incoming Trump administration are ample evidence. To which I say, mug them again. Tolerance, properly understood, is a wonderful virtue. The progressive version, however is