World

Forget the Beltway filter: better to watch and learn from the hearings themselves.

The post Lazy Reporters Parrot Democrats’ Talking Points on Impeachment appeared first on The American Conservative.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a liar.

There is no amount of hyperventilating, hyperbole and flat-out lying that can paper over the disastrous case that House Democrats have asked the Senate to try in their effort to impeach President Trump.

Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant and the author of classic police novels such as “The New Centurions,” “The Blue Knight” and “The Choir Boys,” turns 83 on Jan. 22.

George Santayana was right. Because nobody has learned anything in the past three years, we are doomed to repeat the 2016 election over and over again.

They've selected a moderate who isn't quite moderate and a progressive who isn't quite progressive. Convenient.

The post <i>NYT’s</i> Lukewarm, Wrong, and Ultimately Useless Endorsements appeared first on The American Conservative.

I was trying to determine the other day when U.S. Census takers might be in the D.C. region for the centennial head count.

Their rise and fall in communist Romania shows how corruptible, misguided, and brutal the socialist dream became.

The post The Last Days of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu appeared first on The American Conservative.

Over time, Congress has ceded its war power to the commander-in-chief. As a result, modern presidents now assert broad unilateral authority in this area.

In the ’70s, many were confused as to the proper name for the capital of Communist China. The city we now know as Beijing had been variously known in the West as Peiping, Peking and finally Beijing. 

A majority of House Democrats are co-sponsoring legislation (H.R.1384) to outlaw virtually all Americans’ public and private health insurance and replace their coverage with a new government plan. In the Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All” bill (S. 1129) would accomplish the same objective.

Here's what our writers and editors are reading this week.

The post TAC Bookshelf: Ross Douthat’s Decadence appeared first on The American Conservative.

This week pro-life champions from around the nation have gathered in Washington to commemorate the 1973 deadly Supreme Court decisions that legalized the slaughter of babies in the United States.

But given Bush's travails, what would a second term for Trump truly look like?

The post With Democrats Imploding, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like 2004 appeared first on The American Conservative.

The mob did not get away with defaming Nick Sandmann. In fact, people victimized by the media's new normal are now fighting back.

The post The Covington Kids’ Revenge, One Year Later appeared first on The American Conservative.

Inequality and economic growth have been central themes in national elections since John Kennedy’s campaign.  

America’s latest round of hostilities with Iran has sparked a renewed debate about the limits of executive power in war and foreign policy, and in so doing has exposed a dangerous philosophy on the neoconservative right: the notion that the president can initiate a war without congressional approval.

When House Democratic managers tromp to the Senate Wednesday to caterwaul their contempt for President Trump, saddened onlookers will wonder this: Where's the Democratic Party we once knew, and to which some of us once belonged?

Once again, Open Doors, the nonprofit that tracks and reports religious persecution around the world, finds in its 2020 World Watch List that it's increasingly dangerous — fatal, in many instances — to claim Christianity as a faith, particularly in North Korea and in Muslim-dominated countries.

In the days following the targeted killing of Iranian Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, a pro-Hezbollah tabloid in Lebanon featured on its front cover a full-page picture of the collapsed U.S. Marine barracks, which a Hezbollah suicide bomber had turned to rubble in October 1983. The message was hardly subtle. 

If the week’s news in review proves one thing, it is this. The Democratic Party, and its proxies in the mainstream media, have lost their ever-lovin’ minds. 

Consider this. 

The Los Angeles Times invites subscribers to apply to participate in live coverage of a Democratic primary debate.

Despite all of the pressure to be 'woke,' the top movies are a ratification of Scorsese's storytelling and the last laugh of 'Joker.'

The post How Did the 2020 Oscars End Up the Year of Edgy Men? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra announced a lawsuit to limit the Trump administration's new oil fracking efforts on federal lands inside California.

By desperately wielding the sword of victimhood, Elizabeth Warren insults, not empowers her sex.

The post Media Skewers ‘Sexist’ Sanders for Refusing to Bend the Knee appeared first on The American Conservative.

The U.S. has occasionally exerted pressure on democratic allies, but never treated them like servile pawns. Until now.

The post The Trump Administration’s Crude Warsaw Pact-Like Approach to Iraq appeared first on The American Conservative.

You have to pity the bombshell-shocked American citizen trying to take seriously all the "shocking," "stunning" and "bombshell" news coming out of Washington these days.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the leading choice of 48 percent of all black voters seeking to defeat President Trump in the 2000 election.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders comes in second at 20 percent among African-American voters, according to a national Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

Over last few weeks and months, we’ve witnessed the rise of multiple major protests around the globe.

The New York City mayor has squandered the inheritance of his predecessors and watched crime go up.

The post Abandoning Broken-Windows Policing, de Blasio Invites Disaster appeared first on The American Conservative.

From high school to the olympics, rules are changing and male-bodied athletes are starting to dominate female sports.

The post Women Suffer as Sports Race to Be Trans Inclusive appeared first on The American Conservative.

Socialists are coming for your school-age children — and that's no hyperbole.

In a post on its website, the Democratic Socialists of America writes, "Why Socialists Should Become Teachers."

A new HIV+ sperm bank in New Zealand raises compelling questions.

The post Can Men Be Denied Their ‘Reproductive Rights’? appeared first on The American Conservative.

One of the last things Congress did before leaving town at the end of last year was to pass a spending bill that included language that raised the legal age of purchasing tobacco products to 21, also known as Tobacco 21.

The explosive controversy over Prince Harry and his wife, the former Meghan Markle, should make everyone glad that the queen hasn’t abdicated the throne for what passes as the next generation of royals.

On Jan. 13, Attorney General William Barr announced that the Dec. 6 attack on the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida was an act of terrorism.

A recently revealed statement has revived the debate over whether we should let artists' personal lives affect our reading of their work.

The post Stop Digging Through T.S. Eliot’s Laundry appeared first on The American Conservative.

While the nation has been distracted by the actions of Democrats in Washington as they continue to try to remove a duly-elected president from his office, that same political party continues to put its stamp of chaos on the city and state of New York.

As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy.

The post Ike’s Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later appeared first on The American Conservative.

Actor Robert De Niro, in case you didn't know, is also a constitutional scholar.

The "Goodfellas" star thinks President Trump will flout the Constitution because he will "likely start a war" in order to stay in the White House for 12 years.

He was once a military photographer in Syria. For two years, he took pictures of the emaciated and mangled corpses left behind by Bashar al Assad’s interrogators. Then he fled to Europe with 55,000 digital images on flash drives hidden in his shoes.

An eleventh-hour Obama executive order has benefitted pharmaceutical interests while hurting consumers. The current president can change all that.

The post The Easiest Way Donald Trump Can Bring Drug Prices Down appeared first on The American Conservative.

With President Trump's impeachment trial now likely within days, the White House scrambled to assemble his legal team and prepare his defense.

Once upon a time, it was a given that Americans, both young and old, regarded America through the rosy lens of exceptionalism and accepted that this country, despite past mistakes, was still the leader of the free world in terms of economics, human rights and, yes, even morality.

Watch your backs, D.C. residents: D.C. Councilman David Grosso is not seeking reelection to his at-large seat.

However, like the smell of reefer when a pothead pulls on a joint as he enters a supermarket, the councilman's legacy will linger for generations if his colleagues don't say good riddance.

He's already declared that he is a partisan for the president. How can he run this show without compromising it?

The post Why Senator McConnell Should Recuse Himself From Impeachment appeared first on The American Conservative.

The combination of the moonless night and the thick fog enveloping the bay meant I had to rely on a spotlight and my memory to locate the markers.

Since I knew where to expect the reflectors that define the channel, they were pretty easy to find.

Americans know they aren't getting results, and running out of money will only drive the point home.

The post In the Coming Crisis, Bad Bureaucrats Will be the First to Go appeared first on The American Conservative.

The legendary drummer of the singular band Rush was always his own man, a seeker of the truth, and a pursuer of excellence.

The post A Homeric Life: Neil Peart (1952-2020) appeared first on The American Conservative.

Of course Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.

Our confrontation with Iran is part of a larger overconfidence in our military to solve all the world's problems.

The post America Has a Samson Problem appeared first on The American Conservative.

Within hours of learning that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani had been killed by a U.S. missile strike, I issued a statement calling Soleimani’s death “a big victory for the safety of the American people.”

I believed that then and I believe that now.

A poll released this week suggests that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is targeting the bull's-eye by proposing to crack down on crime and criminals.

Crime is the No. 1 issue across the state, pulling in a 31% ranking among respondents, according to the Gonzales Maryland Poll, released Tuesday.

Heading into the 2020 presidential election year, President Trump’s political prospects don’t look so good.

Real Clear Politics, the political campaign website that charts all of the presidential election polls and reports their average each month, had bad news for the president at year’s end.

Smart people learn from their mistakes, but wise people learn from other peoples’ mistakes. That is why you study history.

“So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

Otherwise we risk uniting Russia and China against us, among other consequences.

The post No More Escalations: True Strength Against Iran is Found in Restraint appeared first on The American Conservative.

Rep. Jody Hice said the most crucial principle to remember about America is that here, in this country, individual rights come from God, not the government, and that deviating from this path leads to cultural degradation, Big Government, socialism and, ultimately, utter governmental and societal collapse.

He's right, you know.

Don't take the events that led to Soleimani's killing at face value. Vietnam may seem like a lifetime ago, but its failures and lies loom.

The post Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident appeared first on The American Conservative.

The president has squandered much of his promise with his hard line on Iran.

The post A Trump Voter’s Lament appeared first on The American Conservative.

I guess the "chicken little" predictions of World War III being imminent now look a little silly?

Imagine, you are in a room with a crazy person. Suddenly, you realize that he or she has a gun. You have two options:

1: You have a gun.

2: You do not have a gun.

Without proper education, it's demagogues who will teach voters about political economy, to the nation's detriment.

The post How Bernie Sanders Became Your Child’s Economics Teacher appeared first on The American Conservative.

With all the talk about Hunter Biden these days, one might get the impression that he is the only child of a politician to benefit from his parents' position and the last name they inherited.

President Trump's petty bellicosity can be amusing. When faced with even the slightest slight, Mr. Trump puffs out his chest like a cowardly schoolyard bully and blurts out the first thing that comes into his mind.

He exceeded his authority and ordered what looks like an illegal assassination. Toothless resolutions won't be enough.

The post How Congress Can Stop Trump’s Iran War appeared first on The American Conservative.

Americans don't want handouts and they don't want to be told the world is going to hell. Hope sells.

The post Doom and Gloom Won’t Win Votes in the Heartland appeared first on The American Conservative.

In its quest to compete with FedEx and UPS, the government-run agency lowballed shipping and got coal in its stocking.

The post The Postal Service Rings in the New Year by Bleeding Cash appeared first on The American Conservative.

"'Coming Home' contains truths about the relationship between African-Americans and Donald Trump that will not be reported by the media. Vernon Robinson and Bruce Eberle have broken new ground and explain how this relationship is key to President Trump's reelection." — Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state

What used to happen only in Las Vegas didn't stay there.

Today, casino gambling, which defined the desert resort town, proliferates the country. Before 1990, only two states had legal land-based casino gambling. Now, fully 43 U.S. states have casinos, according to the American Casino Guide.

Why do so many young people hate America and think we’d be better off as a socialist country?

We’ve all heard about the impact of “fake news,” but there’s something even more dangerous: Teaching “fake history.”

President Donald Trump, with his airstrike order against Iraq's airport that left dead Iran's top Revolutionary Guard leader, Gen. Qassem Soleiman, didn't just set the regime on notice that this administration takes seriously attacks on American citizens.

The start of a new decade is a time to look both backward and forward, and a time, once again, to consider the question: What is the future of the Republican Party?

But the time and place will be of their choosing, when the U.S. expects it least.

The post Iranian Revenge Will Be a Dish Best Served Cold appeared first on The American Conservative.

Because today's events could lead to a hot war with Iran, ahead of another razor-thin election here.

The post Why Iraq is Much Worse than ‘Trump’s Benghazi’ appeared first on The American Conservative.

New California data show law enforcement is more likely to stop and search black drivers than white motorists.

A sword-wielding attack on American Jews in New York on the seventh night of Hanukkah last month was yet another chilling reminder that a wave of hateful, anti-Semitism still infects our country.

Last month, the Justice Department's inspector general released his highly anticipated report on the origins and early phases of the FBI's inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Stephen Harrigan's narrative is fascinating and at times overwhelming, teeming with people, legends, and bloody reality, too.

The post Texas History Gets Supersized appeared first on The American Conservative.

Iranian-sponsored Shia militia have stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, outraged that we dared respond to their killing of a U.S. contractor in a rocket attack on a U.S. base. Iranian vessels in swarms are shadowing a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. 

Unprecedented hubris is drawing a global blowback that will leave America in a very dangerous place.

The post How Our Economic Warfare Brings the World to Heel appeared first on The American Conservative.

This is how a 1965 Executive Order made one agency prosecutor, judge and jury in federal contracting complaints.

The post The Real Tyranny in Government Affirmative Action Cases appeared first on The American Conservative.

Democrats want to make the 2020 election a referendum on President Trump. Republicans want to make 2020 a choice between Mr. Trump's record of accomplishment and the socialist direction offered by Democrats.

It's clear now the Trump Administration will have to face an emerging Russia-China-Iranian power alliance in 2020.

The post A New Cold War…With Eurasia? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer recently took aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying he will not be an "impartial juror" during the impeachment trial of President Trump.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is Sri Lanka's new president. Shortly after Mr. Rajapaksa was elected, he appointed his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as prime minister.

There's a new impeachment strategy to oust President Donald Trump from office that's floating about town and it's one that goes like this: Vote. In. Secret.

He's no revolutionary, but his announced drawdown of troops from Africa shows a realism about U.S. power we need right now.

The post Two Cheers for Secretary of Defense Mark Esper appeared first on The American Conservative.

Travelers looking for unique accommodations at reasonable prices happily use Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms such as VRBO/HomeAway. And people like me who share our homes with visitors sure do like the additional income.

There is one big problem, however. Hotels don't like the competition.

President Trump's economy is a resounding success — so far.

Economic growth has averaged 2.6 percent — the Bush and Obama presidencies together posted less than 2 percent. Historically low unemployment is promoting greater racial and gender equality.

A TAC author looks back at the year's finest reads on place, faith, and community.

The post The Best Books of 2019 appeared first on The American Conservative.

Silicon Valley's passion for working long hours is perhaps second only to its zeal for losing investor money. So it was not surprising that when a heated debate over work habits erupted last week on social media, it was Silicon Valley-types who had spurred the discussion.

Greta Gerwig's film strips away much of Louisa May Alcott's earnest messages about faith, family and marriage.

The post <i>Little Women</i> 2019: Another Feckless Feminist Rendering appeared first on The American Conservative.

The assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice just issued a statement reminding that America is not a "police state," and neither should be the college campuses that dot the landscape of this country.

It’s not been a good year for major media.

First, they were caught red-handed as shills for the fake Russian collusion narrative that convulsed the nation for nearly three years. 

Is the media suppressing evidence that the 2018 chemical 'attack' in Syria didn't happen the way officials said it did?

The post A <i>Newsweek</i> Reporter Resigns, a Counter-Narrative Won’t Die appeared first on The American Conservative.

The Committee to Protect Journalists mimics the government and drops the jailed Wikileaks founder like a hot potato.

The post Media Elites to Assange: Fight for Your Own Hide appeared first on The American Conservative.

After pushing through a quick, partisan impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a grievous strategic miscalculation.

The California Democrat decided not to forward the two articles of impeachment to the Senate, believing she could pressure the Senate to require witnesses as part of the trial.

Seventy-five years ago, at the Battle of the Bulge (fought from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945), the United States suffered more casualties than in any other battle in its history. Some 19,000 Americans were killed, 47,500 wounded and 23,000 reported missing.

On this Christmas Day, if we were to reflect on the last few years, we would recall the unending attacks on our character and motivations by the political and media establishments.

Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, I think about George W. Bush.

It was in that week each year for the eight years I covered him as a reporter that he gave me a spectacular gift — and he knew it.

Christianity Today, in an editorial calling for the ouster of President Donald Trump, sure has unleashed a firestorm.

Good. It's good to see Christians getting in the political game. And so passionately so.

Christmas. Maryland's Eastern Shore. Araminta Ross.

The exact date of birth of Araminta, who was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, remains a debate, but there's no doubt that her parents were slaves when Araminta was born; ergo she was a slave, too.

Like no other songwriters of their time, the British band encapsulated fears of tyranny and conformity, war and mass consumption.

The post If Orwell Had an Anthem, Pink Floyd Would Have Produced It appeared first on The American Conservative.

It's official. Black Lives really don't Matter. At least not inside the Democratic Party.

For a party so thoroughly obsessed with race, it is amazing just how white they are.

The Air Force can bring firepower to bear much faster than its sister services and can take out targets in the air, on land and at sea. But just how much air power does the nation need?

The House just passed a massive amnesty bill that would give millions of illegal agricultural workers and their spouses and children a pathway to citizenship.

By voting last week to impeach President Donald Trump, House Democrats led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi abandoned the U.S. Constitution, thumbed their noses at due process and attempted to cancel the votes of the 63 million Americans who elected him president.

Feminists need to rout some of their commendable passion into making sure that American mothers are cared for.

The post Maternity Leave: Where’s the #MomsToo Movement? appeared first on The American Conservative.