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Cyberbullying: Getting to the heart of the matter

The Associated Press recently reported on the disturbing rise of deepfake bullying that is occurring in schools throughout the country. AI-generated technology allows users to maliciously alter classmates' images and create videos of them. AP writer Heather Hollingsworth mentions an incident in a Louisiana middle school last year in which AI-generated nude images were created by two boys. Hollingsworth called this "a nightmare for the victims" due to how these fabricated photos quickly circulate across social media and go viral. And it's not just students that schools have to worry ...

Guess who fears impeachment? A guy who’s been through it twice.

President Donald Trump is afraid of getting impeached again. He said as much earlier this week. "You got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," he said. "I'll get impeached." He spoke those words, coincidentally, on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, which formed the basis of his second impeachment. It was a startling pronouncement from someone given to endless expressions of a hyper-inflated ego. This is a man who, throughout his long public and political life, has seldom been ...

Maduro is getting what he deserved

It was almost six years ago -- during the COVID-19 pandemic -- that then-Attorney General Bill Barr called a "virtual press conference" to announce that the Justice Department was taking action against Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. "Today, I am here to talk about the former Maduro regime and its direct participation in narco-terrorism, corruption, money laundering, and drug trafficking," Barr said on March 26, 2020. "As you will hear, the Department of Justice is announcing the unsealing of a superseding indictment filed in the Southern District of New York against four defendants, ...

How Trump finally buried the Iraq syndrome

Something crucial happened with President Donald Trump's recent actions in Venezuela. In fact, taken together with his earlier moves abroad, they mark the substantive death of what might be called the "Iraq syndrome" -- a paralyzing mindset that has distorted American foreign policy for more ...

The Left’s performative outrage

What a news cycle we're having. In just the past week, we've had exposure of massive fraud in the state of Minnesota, the U.S. military's removal of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, widespread protests across Iran calling for the end of the Islamic regime, and the swearing in of New York ...

The dark day democracy almost died

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump's followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside. I should say it was solemn and healing for the Democratic ...