The United States is facing an educational crisis. Even as government spending per student eclipses most other developed countries, America's youth continue to underperform in math, reading and science compared to their pupils around the world year-after-year. And it isn't getting any better.
Mao Zedong was the ultimate revolutionary, and one wonders how he might think about Beijing's reaction to the Hong Kong protest situation today. Would he side with the protesters?
Only one U.S. president — Lyndon Johnson — was never received in the U.K. by Queen Elizabeth II during his tenure. By contrast, President Trump will make his third visit in the first term of his presidency when the queen receives him and other NATO heads of state at Buckingham Palace this week.
At a time when our country seems in the process of forgetting who and what we are and how we got here -- how we literally saved the world twice in the last century from domination by murderous dictatorships -- those efforts are dismissed today by various revisionist academics, or perhaps even worse, not acknowledged at all.
It is a truism that a blackmailer is rarely satisfied. Once the payoffs start, there often is no end to them.
Newt Gingrich, former House speaker, just wrote that Donald Trump's supporters better watch out and pay attention because the forces working to bring this president down are hardly finished with their efforts -- despite the fact genuine impeachable offenses are nowhere to be found. Take a memo: Gingrich is absolutely correct.
Today, my earnest prayer is that Dan Cathy will see his way clear to rooting out employees within the company who are destroying its Christian legacy and all that his father worked so hard to build. Since the problem has obviously been festering below the surface for several years, it won't be easy.
Is Zhao Lijian, as his Twitter handle says, the "Deputy for Director General in the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China" -- or is he just the latest candidate to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination?
Ray Lewis would have felt right at home out there. Jonathan Ogden, too.
When the Minnesota Vikings take on the Seattle Seahawks on Monday night, it will wrap up Week 12 of the 2019-20 NFL season. That's three-quarters of the way through the 16-game regular season, and Colin Kaepernick remains a quarterback in search of a team that will hire him.
The Democrats and career bureaucrats in the federal government are learning that the president of the United States has the ultimate authority in the executive branch of government. The deep-state lifers have their own agenda and they are finding out the hard way that the president has the ultimate authority to assert his own agenda.
While the desperate Clintons continue working hard to manipulate and lead their long line of anonymous, deep-state operatives into attemting to impeach Donald Trump, what's become clear are deeper Clinton motivations to secretly destroy the Trump-Pence presidency.
This past week, a Facebook "friend" and former student, asked me why I'm so relentless in criticizing progressive sexual politics, and more specifically, why I persist in challenging "LGBTQ sexuality."
Thanksgiving has now passed but Christmas is coming. Every year, we hear the same generic messaging from everyone during the holidays about how people don't get along with their family during at certain meals.
Washington do-goodism almost always fails to help the people it is supposed to because politicians ignore the Law of Unintended Consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than when it comes to a congressional plan to put payday lenders and other short-term lending institutions, such as the burgeoning online lenders, out of business.
Democrats are crazy. How crazy? Martin O'Malley crazy. And the fact that phrase probably requires little explanation says all that needs to be said about the Democratic Party and its acceptance of insanity as proper politicking.
The book's governing assumption is that at the close of World War II, the U.S. "had all but silenced external threats and was about to embark on a stunning era of prosperity.
What sets our current age apart from previous ones is not only technological wonders but the shocking abandonment of truth.
Elizabeth Warren's multi-billion-dollar plan to cancel some $640 billion of student debt is a case in point, amounting to little more than a thinly disguised attempt to buy the votes of younger, higher earning, college-educated voters.
Nobody as far left as socialist Sen. Bernard Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth "I'm not a socialist" Warren can possibly win a U.S. general election, right?
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