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Carol Platt Liebau: Slotkin's Threat

Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin recently said something truly shocking. Speaking at the University of Chicago, she argued that Trump administration officials should be

Ed Morrissey: CBS Reporters Shocked, Shocked to Hear Weiss Wants Reporting on El-Sayed

Scandal has once again hit CBS News, at least as defined by the rest of the Protection Racket Media. CBS reporters complained to Semafor's Max Tani that managing editor B

Seth Leibsohn: In Defense of the American Experiment

Every time there is an election, we often are dismissed for saying, “This election is the most important of our lifetime.”  We shouldn’t be.  Never before has the opposit

Albert Mohler: Rubio and the Defense of the West

Earlier this month, with a majestic view of the Acropolis of Athens behind him, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an address in which he declared the enduring achi

Carol Platt Liebau: An Ally-or-Enemy Test for Michigan Voters

Michigan voters face a stark choice for U.S. Senate: Mike Rogers, a former congressman, state senator, and FBI agent. Or Abdul El-Sayed, whose radical views should alarm

Ed Morrissey: Policies and Platforms Matter

Ken Paxton won the nomination to the US Senate in Texas despite personal baggage from the end of his marriage. His estranged wife, state senator Angela Paxton, took the e

Ed Morrissey: Republicans Must Make Midterms About Marxism

Democrats had one job to do in this cycle: Don't be crazy. But: Rather than offer a rational alternative to Donald Trump, the party has embraced Marxist revolutionaries a

Carol Platt Liebau: Polls and Predictions Don't Decide Elections

Pollsters and the media are predicting a blue wave. They point to President Trump’s low approval ratings and Democrats’ lead in congressional polling. But this election

Albert Mohler: Radio and the Things We Take for Granted

There are certain things we just take for granted, or at least those of us of a certain age take for granted. Among those is the fact that when you get in a car, there’s

Seth Liebsohn: Democrat Leaders Submit to DSA Radicals

Now that the Democratic Socialists of America and their allies have engaged a non-hostile take-over of the Democratic party, prepare to see more and more professional Dem

Albert Mohler: The Ugly Face of Islamic Terrorism

The ugly face of Islamic terrorism has showed that face again. I’m referring, of course, to the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai plane by the co-pilot. It was an e

Hugh Hewitt: Who Really Leads the Democratic Party

Social media influencer Hasan Piker is now the face of the Democratic party. Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes.

Seth Leibsohn: Yaniv Hayoun: The World Should Know His Name

One week after Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reminded the United Nations of the Entebbe terrorist attack, an international pro-Palestinian plane hijacking where f

Seth Leibsohn: Restoring an Appreciation of the Things That Matter

Ronald Reagan used to quote the philosopher Montesquieu: “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded.”  Reagan

Carol Platt Liebau: Released and Reassured?

British police arrested five young men near an air base used by American forces. They were suspected of explosives offenses and preparing a terrorist act. Today, all fi

Albert Mohler: Islam or Islamism

25 Years After 9/11 The Americans and British are still wrestling with the big challenge we face and a crucial question: Is the big challenge Islam?—or Islamism? The

Carol Platt Liebau: Corruption of Our Judiciary

We all learned it – or should have – in civics class. Congress makes the laws. The executive branch enforces them. And judges interpret them. But some federal judges in M

Albert Mohler: A Win-Win-Win

In New York City this week, the United Nations is hosting 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly. World leaders, you can count on this, will be discussing the deal P

Carol Platt Liebau: Death Without Dignity

Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, in June of 2016—with promises of compassion. More than 100,000 assisted deaths later, the reality looks far differe

Seth Leibsohn: The End of Hypocrisy

With CNN, Politico, and MS NOW in high dudgeon over being denied access to the White House, you’d think it was the end of democracy.  What it is is the end of hypocrisy.