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The Roman historian Suetonius described Julius Caesar as timid and noncommittal as he initially approached the Rubicon River -- a shallow and narrow waterway that, at the time, demarcated the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy proper -- in January ...

Another member of Congress has called on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to challenge former President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. This time it is Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.Endorsements are not unusual, but the move by Massie could undercut re...

The fever dream finally broke when former President Trump was arrested Tuesday evening.Minus handcuffs, his New York arraignment happened almost exactly like "the Resistance" long hoped and dreamed. And then, Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago; all but ...

On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg presented his bag-of-tricks indictment charging former President Donald Trump with 34 counts of false entries in business records. Bragg managed to slice and dice two payments to former hookers into what...

Senior State Department officials are working feverishly to ensure the safety of 63 Chinese Christians who fled persecution in China but were arrested by Thai authorities late last week, with the threat of repatriation to China looming and their fate hang...

The indictment of Donald Trump exposes the bottomless cynicism of progressive politics.The goal is not to put Orange Man in an orange jumpsuit but to ensure he's the Republican nominee in 2024. Democrats consider Trump the easiest candidate to defeat ...

CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., left little doubt during his speech Saturday to Keystone State conservatives gathered for the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference: He is running for the Republican nomination for president. Nothi...

My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia's School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in what was known at the ti...

Colonial Williamsburg is a living history museum, a reconstructed freezeframe of life in the 18th century. Employees wander about the town clothed in appropriate attire or situate themselves as silversmiths or bookbinders, teaching skills long dispelled f...

Every year, millions of students with disabilities and their parents collaborate to identify the educational setting that maximizes each child's potential. In California, however, certain families are prevented from achieving this goal merely because ...

A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era. The labor force participation rate among employable adults is near a record low today. There a...

Good morning, it's Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Today, as the entire world knows, Donald J. Trump will be arraigned in New York City on a raft of criminal charges that are, by any normal legal standard, a very long stretch. I've commented on this devel...

Even as Donald Trump prepared to fly to New York for his arraignment, those close to the former president were crediting the man who put him in so much legal jeopardy for the best polling bump he has seen in years: The Trump campaign tells RealClearPoliti...

TEL AVIV-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acted in the nick of time. In an early-evening televised speech last Monday, he announced temporary suspension of the legislative process aimed at passing his governing coalition's proposed judicial overhaul....

While checking out the "banned and challenged" display at my local Barnes & Noble recently, I was reminded that the entire kerfuffle is a giant racket. For publishers and booksellers, "banned" books are likely a money-making racket. Virtua...

The Armalite 15, or AR-15, is not a military weapon that was ported to civilian use. It is a civilian rifle that later the military modified for itself. To say it is a military weapon is to repeat a talking point but reject a truth.For those who do not kn...

Twelve or 13 months from now, the race for the Republican nomination for president -- and the race for the Democratic nomination, if there is one -- will probably be over.Prognostications this far ahead of such contests have a sad history. Just ask Rudy G...

UPDATE: Members of a group of Chinese Christian dissidents detained in Thailand were forced to pay fines for overstaying their visas on Friday, but their legal status remains uncertain amid deep concerns they will be forced to return to China to undoubted...

Good morning, it's Friday, March 31, 2023, the last day of Women's History Month -- and the first day of life in a country in which a former U.S. president has been charged, dubiously, with a crime by an outspoken adversary in the opposing politic...

Donald Trump again made history Thursday evening, this time by becoming the first former president of the United States to be indicted, stemming from charges related to illegal hush money payments made to a porn star in 2016.And yet even while in legal je...

Democrats and Republicans battered TikTok's CEO at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday -- for good reason. The Chinese app poses a national security risk, accumulating troves of data on its American users. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's slit...

PARIS-In the city's 14th municipal district, known here as an "arrondissement," people walk in the street as mounds of trash stake their claim on the sidewalk. And walk they must. Sanitation workers aren't the only ones on strike. Transpor...

There have been several signs recently that voters are sick and tired of the anti-police policies causing crime to skyrocket in big cities. What will it take for politicians in these cities to get the message?Last year, former San Francisco district attor...

It's an open question whether the policies of the Biden Administration do more damage to Russia or the USA. But there is no question that they are a gift to China. Russia is pretty much an energy export economy so when the West cut off its purchases, ...

As Ron DeSantis emerges as a prospective rival for the Republican nomination, Donald's Trump campaign has put word out that anyone who works for the Florida governor will be blackballed.According to sources with direct knowledge of the edict, Justin C...

Good morning, it's Friday, March 24, 2023, and the day of the week when I reprise quotations meant to be uplifting or educational. Three and a half years into a coronavirus pandemic that only exacerbated America's toxic and hyper-partisan politics...

Facing a national debt of over $31 trillion, the Biden administration's FY 2024 budget plan is looking for a gusher of new revenue in a "wealth tax" of 25% on wealth exceeding $100 million. This would tax not just personal income but gains in ...

Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left's century-long Gramscian march through America's major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrati...

Why are so many institutions and government agencies all of a sudden interested in regulating speech? Why is so-called misinformation a much bigger issue today than it was in the past? The answer you hear most often is that the efficiency of mass communic...

Amid news that Donald Trump is about to be indicted by a hyperpartisan prosecutor and of his hysterical responses, and prompted by vagrant reading about the War of 1812 and Woodrow Wilson's violations of civil liberties in World War I, a thought occur...

The tide is turning against woke agendas in corporate America.Just recently Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley announced that his investment firm - the largest or second largest in the world (depending on how you measure it) - will no longer be committed to ESG, or...

In 2021, the Texas legislature adopted a ban on abortions from the time of "fertilization" until birth. The law imposed criminal and civil penalties for any person performing an abortion, but not on the mother. The only exception included in the l...

Forty minutes can be a long time.It's Friday afternoon and I receive a substitution summons to cover the last class of the day. It's a special education class, and the rules say there must be a certified teacher there.Teaching SpEd classes is ofte...

Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square....

After the Chinese Communist Party's 1949 victory in China's civil war, the question of "Who lost China" rocked Washington. As President Biden makes his first presidential trip to Ottawa this week, he should ask if the next country about wh...

This week, as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg considered indicting former President Donald Trump on a flimsy felony charge over a seven-year-old hush-money payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels, Trump placed his focus on the man he perceives ...

"I would love to see a world in which Boy Scouts make handing out naloxone as their Eagle Scout project," addiction scholar Stefan Kertesz said in The Washington Post. Naloxone prevents opioid overdose deaths -- which is a good thing.But soon fede...

House conservatives have devised a "new and improved" threat to the world economy if their demands are not met. Once again, they vow to vote against raising the cap on U.S. debt if desired cuts in government spending are not made. Once again, they...

Every president wields a certain level of power. Irrespective of their party affiliation, their background, their training or their political ideologies, these elite individuals will always have bestowed upon them a unique ability -- and even understandin...

Former President Donald Trump, citing "illegal leaks" from the Manhattan district attorney's office, posted the following on social media: "...WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PRO...

He's woke. She's woke. So are they, them, ey, ze, and xeir.Know what I mean?Of course, you do. The dominant flashpoint word in today's political lexicon - woke is here, there, everywhere. From Whoopi's lips to your ears. I say it all the t...

In a recent commentary for RealClearPolitics, conservative pundit Hayden Ludwig called for a radical solution to "save free elections in America." He proposed statewide "bans on nonprofit voter registrations and mail-in ballots" across the...

The facts of life haven't changed, but sex education is entirely different now from what you likely learned in school.Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body po...

"While the U.S. has many vital national interests ... becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them."So Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis volunteered in response to a questionnaire that Fox News reporter...

Good morning, it's Friday, March 17, 2023, the day of the week when I reprise quotations meant to be educational or uplifting. Today's lines are intended to be both, which is fitting, as St. Patrick's Day is an interesting historical occasion ...

In the prospective 2024 nominating contest, some GOP wannabes are serving up straight talk about the need to fix Medicare and Social Security, even though Donald Trump banished entitlement reform from Republican doctrine in 2016. These fiscally sober, and...

The strategic climate investment President Biden and Congress enacted last summer is driving a heartland manufacturing renaissance with clean energy at its core, positioning the country for dramatic cuts in dangerous greenhouse gas emissions.The coming we...

The lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting Services, set to go to trial on April 17, may turn out to be a seminal case in First Amendment jurisprudence, with effects that reach well beyond Fox. In a nutshell, Dominion charges that Fox defamed t...

As one who has spent pleasant time on Sand Hill Road and the Stanford campus, I'm dismayed by the demands for special treatment coming from the denizens of one of America's most privileged and affluent precincts.Sand Hill Road, leading up the hill...

The United States recently suffered the second largest bank failure in the country's history. The consensus view is that Silicon Valley Bank made a huge mistake by borrowing short term and then parking money in long-term bonds. When interest rates ros...