To a country that expelled British troops more than two centuries ago and has long touted its democratic values, some of the mourning for Queen Elizabeth II over the last week or so can seem, perhaps, a little bit overwrought.She was, first of all, almost a century old, and had lived a life of ...
<strong>Jeers:聽</strong>We recently noted that, for the first time ever, more Americans are smoking marijuana than tobacco, which reflects marijuana's growing acceptance and more relaxed laws surrounding the drug. However, the investigative news site Spotlight PA ...
At the moment when freedom-loving people around the world are elated (if on tenterhooks) at the progress of Ukrainian forces in pushing back the Russian invaders, Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, has joined with other self-styled conservative groups to ...
On the 21st anniversary of Sept. 11, President Joe Biden repeated the same tired nostrums we have heard for the past several years on the anniversary of the worst terror attack in American history: 鈥淲e will never forget, we will never give up. Our commitment to preventing another attack on ...
鈥淎ll political lives, unless they are cut off at midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.鈥� So said the British politician Enoch Powell, whose own once-stellar career ended in spectacular failure.Lately, careers have been ...
Many Americans are unhappy about the prospect of the Internal Revenue Service hiring tens of thousands of additional agents to enable the agency to audit a greater number of tax returns and, in the process, presumably, encourage more honest tax compliance.Some unhappiness stems from the mere ...