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President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the "Memo of Understanding" (MOU) with Iran is a good deal for the United States and world peace. That's not what Iran believes. Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, ...

General Time is undefeated in battle

I am on a mudslide toward death. Well, we all are, really, when you think about it, but sometimes it just seems you're slipping down the side of the mountain faster than at other times. Like, for example, when you're approaching a birthday that starts with a "fif" and ends with crying in the car because the clouds are moving too quickly overhead. It's not as silly as it sounds -- though it is, admittedly, fairly silly. I had dropped off the kids at camp and was driving back to the house when I got to a stoplight. I looked up and saw shocking blue, scattered white puffballs drifting ...

A president who is never too busy to celebrate himself — at our expense

What does it mean to be an American in 2026? Two distinctly and significantly different visions showed themselves in recent days. On the South Side of Chicago, there was the long-awaited opening of the Obama Presidential Center. In the presence of three past presidents and an assembly of ...

Why Trump couldn’t bring Iran to heel

Iran, a second-rate power in a state of economic collapse, just fought the U.S. to a standstill in a major military conflict. The disappointing outcome has echoes of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, in that a major world power hasn't been able to impose its will on a militarily inferior foe. ...

Reverend Warnock smears Speaker Johnson, as Republicans ‘crush people’

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is constantly introduced in effusive tones as senior pastor at Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Democrats and their media allies love to trot him out to suggest their party is more Christian than the Republicans. On National "Public" Radio on ...

Not following the example of President James K. Polk

A president orders the onset of hostilities -- war -- without authorization of Congress and without much in the way of making a case with the public. His troops win important victories and decapitate large parts of the government of the enemy. But in the enemy capital, no one surrenders or ...