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What happened to national honor?

Famously, a message from President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, John Hay, electrified the 1904 Republican convention: “This Government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.” Ion Perdicaris, a wealthy Greek-American, had been kidnapped in Morocco by a bandit named Ahmed ...

Political summer not over yet

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote Shakespeare, but the Bard didn’t know what the summer of ‘24 had in store. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. And the garden knows it; the last batch of ...

Dear Donald Trump

I have maintained that, were it held today, you would win the election. Vice President Kamala Harris is just an extension of the deeply unpopular Biden-Harris administration. A majority of Americans do not like you, but they prefer your administration’s policies. The electorate is angry and ...

Cannot allow China to use subterfuge, coercion to bully

Evidence — including a bombshell indictment this week of a senior New York political figure — is mounting that China is not content to run a police state just at home but is extending a long arm of repression and subversion into the United States, seeking to intimidate protesters, harass ...

A surefire way to protect democracy

It’s once again that time of the U.S. presidential election cycle when federal officials start talking about alleged foreign influence by the usual suspects, notably Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. But the most effective solution seems to be flying right under everyone’s radar. Law ...

‘Fact-checking’ is often spin-spoiling

The debate debacle hosted by ABC underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to “fact-checkers.” Object to them, and the left decrees it’s because you’re hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist argumentation that’s poorly disguised as ...