White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly has spent a lifetime fighting America’s wars. But nothing he did in his many assignments as a professional soldier ever triggered the uproar that followed his comments on Laura Ingraham’s new Fox News “Ingraham Angle” last Monday night about a war Mr. Kelly missed by a century — the Civil War.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are talking to the Congress about how they helped Russia spread fake news and create divisions within our country during the 2016 Presidential election. They were at least complicit, and arguably enabled, what may be the biggest, and most effective anti-U.S. propaganda and destabilization operation in history.
Time Magazine’s cover this week is a classic. It blares: “The Wrecking Crew: How Trump’s Cabinet Is Dismantling Government.” Also last week The New York Times ran a lead editorial complaining that team Trump is shrinking at an “unprecedented” pace the regulatory state that was erected to new heights under President Obama. These and other media reports have had all the subtlety of a primal scream.
So far, the Trump economy is a resounding success. Unemployment is down, wage gains are stronger and stocks are setting new records, but a lot more than tax and regulatory reform will be needed to deliver the economic growth Americans should expect and deserve.
Let’s just cut through the clutter of all the border control proposals, packages, deals and discussions that have marked U.S. politics for the past, oh, let’s say, gazillion campaign seasons, and narrow it down to one consideration and one consideration alone: What can you do for America?
The deadly Islamic terrorist truck attack in New York City on Halloween exposed a caldron of issues, from national security to immigration policy.
At hand is a masterpiece of biography, the best of the genre that I have encountered in almost seven decades of reading. Ron Chernow's book should vault Ulysses S. Grant into a deserved but long-denied position in the front rank of great American presidents.
The Trump administration blames international trade for America's job woes. It's the wrong target. The White House and Congress should create opportunity, not disrupt it.
She's back! She's back! And Botswana can relax again in the knowledge that Mma Precious Ramotswe is still hard at work solving problems with her unique No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
The criminal indictments charging three former Trump campaign officials with wrongdoing is just the first round of what is shaping up to be an explosive investigation into widespread Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
Republicans must quit trying to appease liberals on tax reform. It is a battle they cannot win, in a war they must not lose. Simply, the left will never be satisfied with a broad income tax cut, because they view income taxes as mechanisms for wealth redistribution, as well as revenue generation.
Imagine the terror of the young woman as she wheeled her horse around, groping for her lasso. She faced the wild stallion and whooped, snapping the rope. He stomped and trotted off. The woman and her young niece were gathering cattle, on their private ranchland. The wild horse shouldn't have been there. She was breaking the law by "harassing" the horse.
A few days after demonstrators for and against removing a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, rioted, President Trump asked where it might end. "I wonder," Mr. Trump said, "is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself: Where does it stop?"
The news during the Chinese Communist Party Congress was supposed to be uniformly positive. But the Oct. 19 press conference of Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of China's central bank, was not. After admitting that the country's high debt was high, he surprised everybody by adding that it was not so high as to cause a "Minsky Moment," a sudden meltdown of asset prices. It was a fascinating insight into what worries China's economic leaders and the tough choices they face.
Given North Korea's nuclear lunacy, what exactly are the rules, formal or implicit, about which nations can have nuclear weapons and which cannot?
When thinking about migrants and Islam, Italy is not a country that comes to mind.
In considering the indictment of former Donald Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and an associate, I am reminded of former Bill Clinton aide and defender James Carville's line about the ability of a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich."
Earlier this week, the government revealed that a grand jury sitting in Washington, D.C., indicted a former Trump presidential campaign chairman and his former deputy and business partner for numerous felonies.
