“Here we go.” “I knew it would come.” “This won’t end well.” Those were my initial reactions to President Trump’s announcement that he had activated the California National Guard and to sources on Monday saying Marines would serve as backup. The last time a president ...
Let me tell you the story of the star-crossed Republican Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans can’t cross the president and can’t compromise with Democrats. They are utterly useless as lawmakers, precariously perched on slim majorities. The Trump Republican plan for the ...
Interviewing for a job or competing for a promotion just got fairer. In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court leveled the legal playing field, saying that everyone deserves the same protection from discrimination, including straight white women and men. In the six decades ...
These days it seems that a mysterious group called “the CBO” rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it’s not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation ...
The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was time to escape to ...
The riots that kicked off in Los Angeles last weekend aren’t just about illegal immigration — they’re part of a revolutionary movement. “Anti-colonialism” is a term often heard in America’s college classrooms, but off campus virtually no one takes it seriously. It’s just ...