A Scandinavian-style social welfare state requires a massive tax hike on the middle class. It can't be done simply by raising marginal tax rates on...
The president was right when he said in his State of the Union Address: "The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a...
For better or worse, Democrats are in an uncompromising mood, both on ideology and ethics.
We need to think of these deployments in much the same way we thought of our Indian Wars, which lasted roughly 300 years (ca. 1600-1890),...
For a diligent news consumer, there is little new or interesting in the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community" released on Tuesday. But...
Congressional Republicans are suffering, as I have noted in the past, from a bad case of Stockholm syndrome. They've seen what's happened to "the formers"...
This was the deadliest mission yet for the U.S. armed forces in Syria and, out of four fatalities, two were women, two were civilians, and...
On Friday, The New York Times reported that "in the days after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became...
With his insufferable boastfulness, Trump claimed, "I think I would have been a good general." Actually, he would never have made it to first lieutenant,...
Confronted with a president who disregards the best military advice, Mattis became the highest-ranking official since Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1980 to resign...
