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Many are silent about Iran’s massacres

National Columnists

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

National Columnists

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

National Columnists

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

National Columnists

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 ...

Sports betting can, should be controlled

National Columnists

It wasn’t that long ago when sports betting was illegal. Then suddenly it was as though profit, rather than controlling this vice, became paramount. It was inevitable, given human nature, that bad things would follow legalization. Recently, The Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story that reported “one of the most sprawling gambling cases in the history of American sports: a national and international conspiracy to allegedly rig dozens of games that reached from U.S. college basketball to the top professional league in China.” There was a time in America when laws ...

Cutting state income tax helps dying states

National Columnists

Across the nation, states are fiercely competing for companies and population by slashing taxes. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is dooming her state to be the loser. In 2026, eight states are cutting their income taxes, and four others are reducing corporate tax rates. South Carolina is pushing ahead on legislation to phase out its income tax entirely over the next few years, joining nine other income-tax-free states. That’s bad news for New York. Saddled with a spendaholic governor and state legislature, New York is becoming increasingly unattractive to newcomers and businesses ...