A man believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a screen grab of a video released on April 29, 2019 (Al Furqan Media Network/Reuters TV via Reuters) President Trump announced Sunday morning that U.S. special forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a night raid in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, fulfilling “the

Would Amy McGrath, who hopes to take Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat away from him, attend a dinner hosted by a Nazi group? Of course not. Would she show her face hosted by a group that opposed jihad terror? Not on your life. But in a sign of how topsy-turvy the Left’s moral compass has become,

Ellen DeGeneres, October 2019 (Tim Heitman/USA Today Sports/ Reuters) The practitioners of the politics of cooties seem not to realize that we’re all in this together. When the Founders designed the basic architecture of the American system, they bore in mind among other antecedents the Roman republic. Their heirs are fascinated by a rather different

When Bernie Sanders visited Canada’s national health care system on a fact-finding mission, he came away mightily impressed. “Somehow or another in Canada,” he said, “for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses…And they do it for about 50 percent per capita of the cost that we

Republicans and Democrats, partisans of Donald Trump and those looking to impeach him, should speak with one voice about at least one thing: It is time for Nancy Pelosi to bring the impeachment process out of the shadows, out from behind closed doors, and into the light and air, such as it is, of the

President Lyndon B. Johnson in an undated photo (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum/Reuters ) Lyndon Johnson’s 1960s spending initiatives have not paid off with any improvement in education. In 1964, most people would have been excited to receive a signed picture from the president. But a woman known to history as “Mrs. Marlow” did

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren visits a picket line of striking teachers in Chicago, October 22, 2019. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) The political contradictions of progressivism ‘The fact is there is no more money. Period,” says Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. She’s talking about the teachers’ strike that has paralyzed her city’s public schools — enrollment 360,000

So, Eddie Johnson, superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, says he will give it a miss on Monday when President Trump addresses a gathering of police chiefs in the Windy City. “The values of the people of Chicago are more important than anything that he would have to say,” Johnson’s spokesman said in explaining the

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., October 23, 2019 (Erin Scott/Reuters) Those attempting to cajole Facebook to censor political speech do not want these same standards applied to them. Misinformation, spin, and false claims have been part of politics since America’s founding. To secure the 1800 presidential

The anti-gun Left has managed to narrow the focus of their foaming-at-the-mouth rage in the last year or so. After spending decades just barking “NRA BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS!” when “debating” gun control, they’ve now squarely focused their anger on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In the new telling of the story, the real reason

(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) It would be a travesty if China, which has entered the fray, became the world’s leader in this global economic development. The old adage about giving a dog a bad name certainly applies to Facebook these days. Politicians and pundits of every ideological stripe feel free to lash out at Mark Zuckerberg whenever

While Trump-haters keep obsessing over his tweets and “manners,” we are witnessing the Democrats’ ongoing rejection of President Donald Trump’s constitutional right to govern and the people’s sovereign choice in electing him. Let’s check our priorities. You may regard Trump’s tweet “#StopTheCoup” as political theater, but it’s not, and we need to take notice. Ever