The short answer to the question posed in the title of this article is that it depends on how forcefully but deftly the administration can implement its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion order, and how the project will be received by…
For the first time since I joined the Marine Corps in 1969, I am ashamed of the organization. Until now, no Marine Corps commandant has been accused of lying to the American public. On January 15th of this year, General…
WASHINGTON — I remember when the networks called the 2020 election for President Joe Biden. It was a Saturday; that evening, as he addressed his gleeful supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, the new president-elect declared victory in “the battle to restore…
Later this year, the most important free-speech case in decades will be decided by the Supreme Court, and it’s not about speech at all. It’s about common internet smut, and it’s high time the high court dispelled the modern myth…
In 1805, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy and Marines to stop Barbary pirates from disrupting shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. This successful measure is captured in the Marine Corps Hymn stanza “…to the shores of Tripoli….” When he takes…
Why would 24 conservative Republican senators recently vote for a $200 billion Social Security bonus for the already rich retirement accounts of government employees — who, as civil servants, did not pay into Social Security during the time of their…
Friedman Pines for China Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer winner and the New York Times’s foreign-affairs columnist since 1995, has long maintained a set of curious views about world affairs. Most prominent, perhaps, is his elevation of climate change above…
Why not the best? That question is not a mere rhetorical question. In fact, in the fall of 1975, this was the title, Why Not the Best?, of a bestselling book by a new figure on the national stage: former…
WASHINGTON — Why did President-elect Donald Trump pick then Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be the next attorney general back in November? Gaetz is no legal heavyweight. He’s never run an organization with thousands of workers, like the Department of…
