President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address. Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some UN programs. Upon arrival, as if on cue, ...
I got called “Georgia” by one of my son’s friends the other day. I wasn’t insulted — I know from firsthand experience that kids nowadays have a startling familiarity with adults. My own son and his cousin, both 6 years old, once walked up to my husband’s 70-year-old uncle when ...
Four of America’s nominally closest allies – Britain, Australia, France and Canada – disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn’t merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They ...
It’s hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn’t been for someone named Taylor Swift. Powell has been idolized by the Left for one reason: He’s ...
The modern concept of the freedom of speech did not dawn until the Warren Court in the 1960s. In two cases, the Supreme Court ruled that there is no such thing as hate speech and the government may not do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly. In 1969, in Brandenburg v. Ohio, ...
Harley Nesehm, Berthold I have followed with informed interest the news reporting as Minot considered giving local contractors preference when bidding City funded construction projects. When consideration evolved into development of an ordinance, I contacted the Public Works Department and ...