A big part of the recent impeachment brouhaha was concern about corruption. Allegedly, President Trump’s call asking the Ukrainians to look into the Bidens and their shady business dealings was corrupt, because it had the potential to benefit Trump politically. The chattering classes, including those on the Left and the NeverTrump Republicans, have been remarkably
In Navy SEAL training, winners of competitive events are often rewarded with extra chow and rest. Losers are punished. As the cadre constantly reminds trainees, “It pays to be a winner.” As we’ve seen with the Democrats’ impeachment debacle and the Republican Senate’s ongoing successes with judges—including the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch
I recently saw Sam Mendes’ World War I epic, “1917.” The film graphically portrayed the horror of that war to younger generations for whom it is ancient history. Like any epic of that war, it detailed the unromantic realities of trench warfare, the bonds of comrades in arms, the nearly universal dedication to duty, and
Attorney General Bill Barr and special prosecutor John Durham are starting to make a lot of people nervous. They have been investigating leaks, including from the highest levels, arising from the Russian collusion hoax. Now that people formerly at the top, such as former FBI Director Jim Comey and former CIA chief John Brennan are
The recent drone attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and a Shiite militia leader in Iraq led predictably to a retaliatory strike by Iran. Twenty or so ballistic missiles were launched at bases in Iraq where U.S. troops were housed. Fortunately, no one was killed. Instead of launching a counterattack, President Trump stopped. Since
Starting in 1975, Lebanon descended into civil war. Its various ethnic and religious groups—Shia, Sunni, Druze, and Christian—formed factions that alternately fought or aligned with one another. Outsiders, including Palestinians and Syrians, added to the chaos and the bloodshed. Having faced harassment from Palestinian terrorists operating in Lebanon for many years, Israel invaded in 1982.
After the House of Representatives’ recent decision to issue two articles of impeachment, it appears the Democrats are having second thoughts. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) thus far has refused to transmit the articles to the Senate because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) publicly has expressed doubts regarding the merits of impeachment and the
An Iowa man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stealing and then burning a rainbow gay pride flag from a local church. Adolfo Martinez is no angel; in fact, he has a record with numerous previous arrests. But the real reason his sentence was so long is that the prosecutor classified this
News arrived last week that emboldened both the president’s supporters and his opponents. The inspector general’s report on the FBI’s 2016 investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign revealed significant mistakes and irregularities, which, in the words of the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, do not “vindicate anybody.” At nearly the same time, the
If you grew up in the 1980s, it was hard to miss Nancy Reagan’s call to “Just Say No” to drugs. While the Baby Boomers famously ingested a lot of narcotics, drug use among young people declined significantly in the years following this public relations effort. The “War on Drugs” was not just about law
