Politics

What Is America’s Cause in the World?0
- Politics
- June 8, 2021
“Take away this pudding; it has no theme,” is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, when a disappointing dessert was put in front of him. Writers have used Churchill’s remark to describe a foreign policy that lacks coherence or centrality of purpose. For most of our lifetimes, this has not been true of the United
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Fibbing Fauci Shows He’s Just Another Crisis-Loving Intellectual 0
- Politics
- June 4, 2021
A few months into the COVID pandemic, an acquaintance of mine got an adorable puppy and named it… Fauci. Admittedly, it is kind of a cute name for a dog. But after the past several days’ news reports, I’m wondering whether my acquaintance will choose a new moniker for that poor puppy sometime soon. For
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Democratic Showdown: Kamala vs. Manchin 0
- Politics
- June 4, 2021
Speaking in Tulsa on the 100th anniversary of the racial atrocity there, Joe Biden belatedly turned to the issue of voting rights, to explain why he is having such difficulty winning passage of the party’s priority legislation. I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden
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Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?0
- Politics
- June 1, 2021
Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the “last full measure of devotion” to their country. Heart-rending is an apt description of those stories; and searing are
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Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest—to Buy Putin’s Gas 0
- Politics
- May 25, 2021
When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run
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Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?0
- Politics
- May 21, 2021
When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party’s chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that commission, being spun as a “bipartisan” effort to learn what “really happened” in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have
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