A sick person killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last year. Conventional wisdom is that enacting various gun control laws, including banning assault weapons, is the solution to school shootings.
What's equally bad is that the District is breaking both the spirit and the letter of the law when it closes a traditional public school and then forces charter schools to apply to occupy it, as if the children who would attend the school are, here again, foreigners.
Russia's Defense Ministry has announced the Chinese People's Liberation Army will join Russia and six other nations for Tsentr 2019, a massive, five-day military exercise involving over 100,000 troops that starts Monday.
It was March 2018 and Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, was deeply disturbed. President Trump had just announced that John R. Bolton would serve as his third appointed national security adviser and Mr. Murphy, a thoroughgoing dove, was alarmed.
This week's news that the John Bolton era as President Trump's national security adviser has ended seems to be a step toward calming tensions in the Middle East. That is, at least, what oil markets told us as crude prices dropped almost a full dollar in the immediate aftermath of the announcement.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste," a political adage in its most recent iteration attributed to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, long predated the Obama administration and will continue as long as politics exists.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was filling the kids' bowls full of cereal before sending them off to school. Tonette called me from work and told me to turn on the television in the living room. I did.
"The sky is falling," the left yelled with smiles on their faces. "Look everyone, the economy only added 130,000 new jobs last month -- down from 164,000 the prior month -- and that proves that a recession is on the way!" Yes, typically a slowdown in hiring indicates a slowing economy. But not so fast.
In Mr. Waller's "Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation," readers learn about the Civil War's military intelligence officers, counter-intelligence officers, secret agents and informants.
It's really hard for Washington to end a war. This was proven yet again by the recent outcry from members of the foreign policy establishment over the now-dead news that the United States was close to finalizing a deal with the Taliban.
If America declared war, America would never be at war. Well, maybe not never. But hardly ever. If Congress didn't cede its constitutional authority to declare war to the president, and to the president's influencing powers, we'd at least have clarity on the conflicts we currently face, and know when to get in, when to get out.
We are about to witness the dirtiest and bloodiest presidential campaign in living memory. And the stakes in the 2020 election could not be higher.
"When would you like to schedule your knee replacement surgery?" asked my American doctor before I left for Ireland? I gave him a date that works for me (I'm calling it the result of an old basketball injury, not advancing age.) His office scheduled it for that date.
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