For over two years now a peculiar combination of the media and the Democrats have been goading Donald Trump, always to painful effect — painful for both sides in this vituperative battle; but particularly painful to the media and the Democrats. Not much good has come of it.
Our post 9-11 war fighters who are attempting to recover from emotional and physical trauma rely on the compassion of caretakers, re-tooling and role modeling for their healing.
In 2002, Joshua Muravchik, a distinguished scholar, wrote a history of socialism which, he thought, might also be considered an epitaph for socialism.
Harry Truman famously remarked that he wished he could find a one-armed economist since all the ones he had to deal with were constantly weasel-wording their advice with "on the one hand" and "on the other hand."
Summer approaches, and a gloomy pall, some of it manufactured and some of it real, casts a shadow over the land of the free.
Impeach, impeach, impeach. Turn on the TV and it seems all the news channels are talking about it — but they never say exactly which "high crimes and misdemeanors" the president has committed
Instead of fighting so hard to prevent abortions, maybe Republicans should look at it from a different angle.
Let's look clearly at "obstruction of justice." What President Trump's partisan opponents did to him during and after the 2016 election campaign was gross injustice. If there was obstruction by Mr. Trump, it was not of justice but of injustice.
What if we woke up one day and the unthinkable happened -- nobody really cared about sports?
Talk about a low culture moment. Kate Gilmore, the U.N. deputy high commissioner for human rights, in an interview with The Guardian, called out America's restrictions on abortion as "torture" and examples of "extremist hate." Come again? "This is a crisis," she said. "It's a crisis directed at women." Oh. My. Gosh.
President Donald Trump is on a fast-track slide to a second administration, says one historian whose opinion matters because he's correctly predicted the outcomes of the previous nine White House runs. No wonder the Democrats are ramping up, rather than abandoning, the "impeach, impeach, impeach" rhetoric. It's panic time.
Venezuela, the country the left had loved to showcase as a good example of what socialism could be -- until it started crashing and burning, that is, and then suddenly, the message from the left was that Venezuela wasn't a socialist nation at all -- has now openly admitted its economy is indeed, crashing and burning. Do tell.
In this whole theatrical performance called "Impeach, Impeach, Impeach" that the Democrats have been playing since heir apparent Hillary Clinton went down in flames to Donald Trump, Robert Mueller's special counsel report was the main act. It was to be the a-ha moment to unseat Trump from the White House. But it failed. Miserably.
In most military families, both spouses want to pursue their own careers -- if only to help make ends meet. Yet, even in today's booming economy, finding work can be difficult for a large number of military spouses because of obstacles that states have placed in their way. Those barriers are state-law occupational licensing requirements.
For more than two centuries, economists and well-read people have understood that tariffs reduce the levels of competitiveness and prosperity. Adam Smith (1723-1790) explained how free trade (by increasing the extent of the market) enabled greater specialization and productivity, and David Ricardo (1772-1823) explained how free trade allowed for "comparative advantage" to everyone's benefit.
It's a familiar quote from Charles Dickens' classic "Oliver Twist," but with special contemporary relevance in light of a statement last week by special counsel Robert Mueller: "'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble 'the law is a ass — a idiot.'"
President Trump arrived in the U.K. today on a three-day state visit as guest of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Nations are raised to greatness through the virtues of great men, as Edmund Burke observed, and Britain could once call on the likes of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher when the hour of greatest peril arrived.
In the still-growing strategic threat from North Korea, President Trump and his pertinent advisers must learn to make certain vital distinctions.
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the torch and pitchfork crowd have their fingers in your wallet once again.
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