×

Opinion

Trump defies conventional wisdom … so far

Columns

"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister, on the failure of a liberal reform to achieve the results promised with great assurance by ...

A constitution of no authority

Columns

What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to establish and to limit the federal government? What if Congress's 16 enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limit Congress but are actually used as a justification to extend Congress's authority over nearly every aspect of human ...

Pied Piper’s alluring tune

Letters To The Editor

I’m hearing Democracy has failed us and many are being lured toward a new system of government. This brings me to an old family conversation I overheard as a kid, a different time and circumstances but a time when many Americans were lured away from American- Democracy, never to be heard ...

Has a U.S. president ever been more pro-Israel?

Columns

Donald Trump has held many rallies, but never one in the parliament of a foreign nation. President Trump's speech to the Knesset on Monday was a raucous, celebratory affair with the audience of Israeli lawmakers showering him with adulation. Trump's reception made it a little like a State ...

Will they come for you?

Letters To The Editor

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Krist Noem has announced that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and they will be “enforcing” at the Bad Bunny half time show. “We are going to be all over that place” she said. “We are going to enforce the law. You shouldn’t be coming to ...

Any old peace pact isn’t necessarily a good deal

Columns

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a quick study in the art of laying it on thick, announced that he was teaming up with Israel's Knesset speaker to invite parliamentary leaders from around the world to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — and for nothing less than inaugurating "a new ...