The scene is an iconic image of America’s founding: On October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, as the French fleet blockading the harbor looked on, the British army under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, who cravenly refused to attend, surrendered to the combined continental and French troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau with
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order in a prescient move to defend America’s national security against Chinese cyber espionage. Invoking his powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the president gave the Commerce Department 150 days to devise methods of implementing new rules for American companies that wish to trade
The aphorism is as logical and demonstrable, as can be demonstrated by current events: “The more illogical the proposition, the more political the proposition.” Fortuitously, too, current events have conspired to reveal this aphorism intersecting with the political truism that “the Left accuses its victims of that which the Left is doing.” Per
The sanctimonious Climate Cult never ceases to amaze and amuse in its incessant, condescending appeals to enlighten—by any means necessary—we recalcitrant heretics who refuse to cede our liberty to the state upon the pretext of their politicized science. Now, they’re going to nuke us with a missal. To wit, this May 1 tract
In 1961, the British Parliament’s Tory majority of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was wracked and wrecked by the Profumo Affair, eponymously named for Sir John Profumo, the Secretary for War. In her book, City of Sin: London and Its Vices, Catharine Arnold provides a pithy recap of the salacious scandal, which involved “call
Long have we dwelt upon how many of those who eschew revealed religion, instead have turned and clung to the left-wing’s regressive “civil religion.” Among these secular believers, one of the fastest growing sects was the Russian Collusion Cult. As with the overarching intellectual fraud, Collusion Cult members derived their benighted world view
The National Hockey League held its draft lottery on Tuesday. Teams with the worst regular season records (i.e., points) have an increased chance of obtaining the top draft picks. That is, in descending order, the unsuccessful teams receive more lottery balls than do other, more successful teams. In the event, the New Jersey
Growing up, I attended Catholic Central High School, which was founded by the Basilian Fathers. Later, I matriculated to the University of Detroit (undergrad and law school), which was founded by the Jesuits. Once, I was asked about how the combination of these institutions affected my learning. I began by reciting Catholic Central’s
Our political discourse is rife with invective. Some of it is based upon a mutual animus between political parties and people. Some of it is based upon a mutual advantage for political parties and people. Some of it is both. This was explained to me when I was a 26-year-old Republican Commissioner in
Anyone with a passing acquaintance with the irredeemable institution that calls itself the United Nations understand it is a global Tammany Hall that endangers the advance of human freedom and prosperity throughout our world. Perhaps, its only merit is to provide those few remaining doubters with irrefutable proof that the societal scourge of
