Friends who are frustrated by the current White House regime still ask me, "Where is Obama?" As if he might miraculously arise again in the political skies like Mighty Mouse singing, "Here I come to save the day!" Dream on, I point out. Having served two full terms, Obama has maxed out of his ...
Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it." It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If, as ...
“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She called it “The Great Feminization” but her screed is very much a hymn to men. Andrews’ essay has received applause from the right, where caveman masculinity is making a comeback, but she has fallen into the trap of black-and-white thinking and subtracted from a reasonable ...
In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that ...
Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat has built a respectable NBA career, averaging about 20 points per game some years. In all likelihood, though, the Miami Heat point guard will now be remembered less for what he did on the court than as another data point in how runaway sports betting is ...
Like the one-sided bromance it always was, the Trump-Putin relationship is officially on the rocks — for now at least — with the US president declaring the first sanctions of his administration on Russia’s two largest oil companies. It’s a new and important milestone in the nearly four-year-old war of aggression launched by Russia against Ukraine. How effective those sanctions on Russia’s two major oil companies will be largely depends on US follow-through, including the possibility of secondary sanctions long threatened by President Trump against countries continuing to do ...
