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Every aspect of Epstein scandal must be probed

Of course, Bill Clinton should cooperate with any investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking of underage girls. This concerns a criminal enterprise, not bad-boy behavior. Democrats siding with the pursuit of justice should be commended. Nine of them joined Republicans on the House Oversight Committee in voting to hold Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify. Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) then gave Clinton two weeks to address the matter before bringing it to the House floor for a vote. As president, Clinton topped the charts for success, in my ...

Many are silent about Iran’s massacres

On Oct. 7, 2023, when Israelis were trying to locate the mutilated bodies of their countrymen slaughtered in their homes or at a music festival by thousands of Hamas gunmen, 34 Harvard student groups publicly blamed the massacre not on Hamas but on Israel. In the days that followed, while Israeli forensic experts sought to identify body fragments, many on the Left joined in the eye-popping blame heaped on Israel for the deaths of Israelis, affirmatively celebrating the killings, or defending them, or asserting that the cold-blooded, meticulously planned slaughter should be ...

I’m happy to criticize when it’s warranted

The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all back for the framework of a deal. The reality is, President Donald Trump has a knack for getting things he could have gotten without all the drama, but the drama is salesmanship for his base. They insist it is the art of the deal, he is the best negotiator and the deal is amazing. Most often, the president gets to claim success, which is nebulously defined. In ...

One person can make momentous impact

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil rights visionaries who have died who were, like Colvin, not as well known. This includes Autherine Lucy, the University of Alabama’s first Black student; Lucille Times, who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which catapulted a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to national leadership; and Myrna Carter Jackson, who actively protested racial injustice in Birmingham. Alabama was certainly one of the most significant battleground states of the civil rights ...

What’s good for Navarro is good for Clinton

The walls are closing in — on Bill Clinton. The former president is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress. This time, the Democrat party, which stuck with him during his scandal-plagued 1992 campaign and during his 1998 impeachment, isn’t rallying to him in unison. The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee just voted 34-8 to hold Bill Clinton in contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena regarding the Epstein scandal, with 9 Democrats voting in favor, 8 voting against and 2 abstaining. In other words, fascinatingly, only a minority of the ...

President’s negotiation style gets results

Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos. You could think of this as a hostile act of a statesman appalled that the American head of government does not know that the government of Norway does not decide who gets the Nobel Peace Prize. It is probably better to think of it as an intervention, by a sympathetic observer who has noticed that Donald Trump backs down from untenable ...