Is Trump Entering a Kill Box?
A yearlong FBI investigation into Russian hacking has failed to produce a single indictment. Yet the president watches impotently as a special counsel pulls together a lethal force, inside...
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Are America’s Wars Just and Moral?
Among the principles for a just war, it must be waged as a last resort, to address a wrong suffered, and by a legitimate authority. Deaths of civilians are...
Is Iran in Our Gun Sights Now?
"Iran must be free. The dictatorship must be destroyed. Containment is appeasement and appeasement is surrender." Thus does our Churchill, Newt Gingrich, dismiss, in dealing with Iran, the policy...
The Real Crimes of Russiagate
Do the American people not have a "right to know" who are the leakers within the government who are daily spilling secrets to destroy their president? Are the identities...
Alone Perhaps, but Is Trump Right?
The crucial question is not whether Trump is alone, but whether he is right. Has Trump read the crisis of the West correctly? Are his warnings valid? ...
Is America Still a Nation?
Could the Constitution, as currently interpreted, win the approval of two-thirds of our citizens and three-fourths of our states, if it were not already the supreme law of the...
An America First Korea Policy
"The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly. President Trump told reporters in the Rose...
Are Illinois and Puerto Rico Our Future?
Across the West, social welfare states are threatened by falling revenues, taxpayer flight, rising debt as a share of GDP, sinking bond ratings and proliferating defaults. ...
The Passing of the Pelosi Era
The Pelosi factor has been a drag on Democrats in all four of the special elections the party has lost since Trump's November triumph. Prediction: Democrats will not go...
After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision?
We cannot allow our friends in the Middle East and Persian Gulf to play our hand for us, for it is all too often in their interests to have...
A Long History of Leftist Hatred
Those who incite sick minds with images of a bloodstained decapitated head of the president, and cheer Central Park productions of "Julius Caesar" with the assassinated Roman Consul made...
Are We Nearing Civil War?
To prevail, Trump will have to campaign across this country and wage guerrilla war in this capital, using the legal and political weapons at his disposal to ferret out...
The Impeach-Trump Conspiracy
If Trump is brought down on the basis of what Putin correctly labels "nonsense," this city will have executed a nonviolent coup against a constitutionally elected president. ...
The Forever War?
Today we are in the 16th year of a war begun on 9/11. We are mired down in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Our victory in Afghanistan is being...
Is Afghanistan a Lost Cause?
Fifteen years ago, some of us argued that an attempt to remake Afghanistan and Iraq in our image was utopian folly, almost certain, given the history and culture of...