1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (791+ words) If Team Trump has dragged itself to the negotiating table with Iran, it's not because the U. S. is winning this war. One side of these talks features top Iranian brass. The other, two real estate agents (Steve Witkoff and Jared "Gaza…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (632+ words) Will the U. S. -Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (909+ words) Judge Andrew P. Napolitano War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (574+ words) PARIS " Do you have a pro-Trump friend or family member who's gung-ho about him bombing Iran? Polls suggest that you might. If so, that person likely feels that this is some kind of football match and that Trump is the…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (163+ words) LANSING " Following yesterday's attack on Temple Israel, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is urging residents to report threats, suspicious activity, and acts of bias-motivated violence to local law enforcement and the Department of Attorney General's Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (730+ words) Will President Donald Trump's war against Iran, undertaken in alignment with Israel, prove to be an electoral albatross for Republicans in November? Could Democrats, salivating at the prospect of impeaching and removing Trump from office in 2027, regain control of the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (567+ words) History doesn't always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others'. Example: Woodrow Wilson, a stubborn Southerner, refused to involve any Republicans, all Northerners in those days, in treaty negotiations after World War I. His…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (657+ words) Following rounds of missile attacks from Iran on Israel, a warhead from one of the missiles was found just hundreds of yards from Jerusalem's Old City. A few hundred yards' difference could have meant the destruction of one or more…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (510+ words) Something crucial happened with President Donald Trump's recent actions in Venezuela. In fact, taken together with his earlier moves abroad, they mark the substantive death of what might be called the "Iraq syndrome" " a paralyzing mindset that has distorted American…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (131+ words) I have always found this recurring humiliating ritual to be worse than embarrassing. It's offensive. The core message of Chanukah, then, is one of traditionalism and cultural preservation in the face of menacing and assimilationist forces, both within and without....