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I am writing this during the last hours of Good Friday. The crude, empty cross of my parish has been changed this afternoon for one with Christ crucified, presiding over the temple. However, when you read this, it will be... The post When Light Overcomes ...

Maryland's attorney general's office released a report on Wednesday that details clerical child sex abuse and its coverup in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The contents of the report, in conjunction with the circumstances surrounding its release, w...

America has an unwritten constitution. It's not well-known, but it is powerful. It governs even the written constitution which we know so well. Where has such a constitution been hiding? In plain sight. Consider: after the Civil War, America took... T...

The Heritage Foundation just published a report titled "Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China." Are China and the U.S. in a New Cold War, as this report contends? Chinese leader Xi Jinping does not want us... The post Who Is Afraid...

After a GOP member of Congress publicly revealed a letter from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then commanding U.S. and UN forces in Korea, that stated, "There is no substitute for victory," President Harry Truman on April 11, 1951, fired MacArthur for......

It's astonishing how pertinent this present time is to that of the first Easter 2,000-plus years ago — when dread permeated the land following the Crucifixion of Him who brought hope and peace to so many. The idea that this... The post The Long,...

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 — i...

Within Christian circles, it has become a tradition for many to watch Mel Gibson's 2004 The Passion of the Christ on Good Friday. The controversial 2004 film, which is to be followed up with a sequel (Resurrection) in 2024, has... The post The Case fo...

Boy, this has sure been a banner week for the good ol' US of A, hasn't it? It's starting to get more than a little difficult to not downright hate the people in elite positions in this country. We're obviously... The post Five Quick Things...

"Biden's Inflationary Economic Policy," editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, April 6, 2023. The post Biden's Inflationary Economic Policy appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics ....

On March 5, in a piece about the Screen Actors Guild Awards, I offered, en passant, an exquisitely nuanced critical aperu about Everything Everywhere All at Once. To be precise, I declared that it "stinks." In response, hundreds of readers... The ...

Let me summarize first. I love artificial intelligence. I love watching it become more powerful and useful to us. And I think it may essentially wipe out humanity. But if so, there's really not much we can do about it.... The post If AI 'Wants'...

"Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Messiah?" So asked Pontius Pilate to the crowd, which replied by shouting, "Barabbas!" "Then what shall I do with Jesus called Messiah?" Pilate retorted. "L...

When people ask me what it was like to cover the Trump White House, I often describe what the days were like. Get up. Read what Trump tweeted overnight. See what the White House was rolling out for the day.... The post The Trump Show Takes Manhattan appea...

At least now we know what is and is not election interference. It is not indicting the chief political opponent of an incumbent officeholder prior to a big election. Donald Trump is the foremost political adversary of the sitting president... The post Mem...

In a city where crime and public safety were viewed in a union poll as the leading issues, how could Democrat Brandon Johnson, who was perceived as wanting to defund the police, a stance he denies, defeat Democrat Paul Vallas,... The post Major Mayoral Up...

The mustache, Adolphe Menjou meets Errol Flynn, foreshadowed the end. Muhammad Ali jarringly wore one prior to his disastrous fight with Larry Holmes. Now Vince McMahon, for the first time in his five decades or so in the spotlight, wears... The post Vinc...

Eighty miles west of Austin, Texas begins. Twisting country roads lined with exploding colors of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush wildflowers, and passing by pastures filled with content longhorns lazily grazing, wind up and out of the bustling capital c...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anyone who closely watches the federal government — or most state governments, for that matter — might understandably come away wondering how these enormously powerful and expensive agencies became so incompetent. Th...

Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie discuss what it all means. Was Trump right to make this a public spectacle? Other topics include Marjorie Taylor Greene, the silence of the pathetic Republicans, the women's NCAA basketball championship and sportsmans...

The former publisher of the National Enquirer, a convicted perjurer, and a 44-year-old porn star constitute the potential witnesses against Donald Trump. With the prosecution relying on that cast of characters, who needs a defense? Not since Geraldo River...

In one of the great scenes of the greatest play of all time, Hamlet, the prince of Denmark is introduced to a troupe of traveling actors who are visiting Elsinore, his family castle. His minister tells Hamlet that he will... The post Trifling With Trump a...

Media sources report that the Vatican is accusing the Chinese government of unilaterally appointing a new bishop to Shanghai in violation of a "secret pact" that Pope Francis and Chinese officials renewed last October. Shanghai is the largest Roma...

Last century, many people still associated the Left with fun controlled chaos and the Right with boring, strict, and violent uniformity. It made an amusing caricature, I guess, to pitch the French May against fascist uniforms, which is the typical... The ...

WASHINGTON — I have of late been searching vigorously through my morning newspapers for the causes of and cures for inflation. It seems to me that most people whom I know are well aware of what causes inflation and what... The post Inflation Your .....

A Wall Street Journal article on Sunday predicted the obvious: the Biden administration is on the verge of demanding yet another bailout of the failed, rotting Democrat machines that have destroyed every jurisdiction they run: The Federal Reserve's la...

Last Saturday, a huge crowd at the Penn Harris Hotel outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, listened to a keynote speech by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The event was the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, which its organizer, Lowman Henry, describes as ...

Voters today should elect Paul Vallas mayor of Chicago. He is running an anti-crime, pro-school-reform campaign to keep the Windy City from blowing into Lake Michigan. "Residents in ALL neighborhoods will feel safe," his website promises. "Sub...

"Show me the man; I will find you the crime!" These words historically have been attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, the pederastic murdering thug who led the NKVD for Stalin before it transmogrified into the KGB. The philosophy was clear. The... The p...

Finnish voters rejected their prime minister who did not reject many. Photographs showed the married 36-year-old dancing with a pop star, a rapper, and an actor, drinking, grinding with a hot model named Sabina Srkk, and partying at her tax-funded... The ...

Every year, millions of Americans purchase much-needed products online along with the required postage. While most of the sellers are legitimate operations, a not-insignificant share is willing to use counterfeit postage to save a buck on taxpayers' a...

American Spectator Editor Paul Kengor appeared on America First With Sebastian Gorka to discuss what former President Donald Trump missed out on doing during his presidency. Kengor also discusses his belief that Putin is "itching" to use his nucle...

I'm sorry for the Democrats. There is nothing more prestigious in politics than being signaled by the accusing finger of a porn actress and the betrayal of one of your own. We inevitably ingratiate ourselves with he who has been... The post The Left H...

When a mass murderer shot her way into a Nashville school on Monday and killed six people, most Americans reacted with horror. Gun control advocates, however, viewed it as an opportunity. President Joe Biden, for example, saw the crime as... The post Lies...

Nobody really knew who James O'Keefe was back in 2009, but when he and an associate went around the country catching employees at ACORN offices on video helping out with what turned out to be a hypothetical scam involving a... The post ActBlue Under F...

What does TikTok have in common with 9/11? On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked airplanes and committed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. These terrorists took advantage...

Eye-rollingly typical of the Left. Over there — where else but in the New York Times? — was this headline: A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took p...

Societies advance through the creation, expression, and evaluation of alternative ideas. Therefore, for almost a millennium, we have had universities where ideas and discoveries are born and different perspectives are debated in "marketplaces of ideas...

Twenty years and one week ago, American forces invaded Iraq. By the time then-President Barack Obama withdrew our troops in October 2011, they had suffered about 4,000 deaths, including combat and noncombat casualties, plus about 32,000 wounded. Our Briti...

Moral hazard occurs when an agreement that people make to act in concert for their mutual benefit results in an incentive for one of them to act immorally. The classic case is insurance. When an insurance company contracts with a... The post How the Fed C...

I've got a video to show you that you probably haven't seen. It's 14 minutes long, and it's from the testimony last week by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the Senate's hearing on the Biden budget. And specifically, Sen. John... The...

The culture war is usually a cold one. Conservatives and liberals have been facing off on social issues for generations, fighting proxy wars in the courts or newspapers. And as secular progressivism becomes increasingly dogmatic — you're a bigot...

Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed the Parents Bill of Rights Act (H.R.5), a measure that would guarantee parents a meaningful voice in their children's education. In a sane political environment, this would not have been a controvers...

For a year I've been expressing my fear of a desperate Vladimir Putin ultimately resorting to a nuclear option of some sort in Ukraine. The Russians always get their tails kicked in military conflicts, and the fact that they've been... The post Pu...

Count Basie made it into one of the most popular pieces of the big-band jazz era, brass and solo horn and discreet piano — the bandleader himself — keeping the melody from going overboard with happiness or letting the contrasting... The post P...

The most powerful "weapon" of the Cold War wasn't a weapon but an initiative dismissed by skeptics as "Star Wars," that is, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). And it was 40 years ago this month, on March 23, 1983, that... The post...

The blessing and curse of being a combination film devotee and writer is that movie memories blend with real life ones from an age when cinema was an art. This was absolutely the case in 1982, the year Star Trek... The post The Wrath of the Swamp People a...

Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986 By James Rosen (Regnery Publishing, 500 pages, $40) Antonin "Nino" Scalia's rise to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court almost seemed predestined. Throughout his educational and professional career, he comb...

The Irish-American party bosses of Tammany Hall are no longer kingmakers on the Potomac, but, still, there remain enough voters from Boston to Baltimore who count themselves Sons of Erin to justify inviting the Taoiseach (our prime minister) to the... The...

Victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan. However, the Republican 2022 mid-term debacle had many culprits. From Sen. Rick Scott opening the Social Security can of worms, President Trump's terrible candidates, and incoherent messaging on abort...