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National Columnists

Hotel delights with Christmas charm

A highly anticipated Christmas display in Pennsylvania that is both delicious and whimsical is when the Omni Bedford Springs Hotel in Bedford County transforms one of its main entrances into a culinary delight whose aroma hits your sensory palate long before you walk through the nearly ...

‘Iryna’s Law’ good start to get crime under control

What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? Recently news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway — though this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned ...

Trump’s immigration policy beyond inhumane

Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of “suspected” drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just had a friendly encounter with an ...

Telling truth is last on Democrats’ agenda

Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation’s capital for America’s left, explained “Why Democrats Won the Shutdown.” The most accurate declaration in the article is “fights tell the country a lot ...

Conservative praise bothers European elites

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans. Their pique only ...

They’re coming for your credit card

In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business was all smiles during an Oval Office visit from Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and mayor-elect of New York City. For ...