There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," — the influential novel about slavery — and former President Abraham Lincoln. "So," President Lincoln is reported to have greeted her, "you're the woman who wrote the book that made this ...
Democrats are again trying to pry some of the religious vote from Republicans, but their actions expose the insincerity of their approach. The latest example involves an order of Catholic nuns in Hawthorne, New York, who care for the terminally ill. The Washington Times reports the nuns are ...
That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a "grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of "rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace." Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled "EVs ...
Retail stores locking up items is the symptom of a much larger problem. I recently went to Walmart and had ibuprofen on my shopping list. I went to the medicine section and — groan — saw this $5 item locked behind glass. There were a couple of other people already waiting, so I looked ...
Watching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lead us to war against Iran reminds me, as war stories often do, of a scene in one of my favorite war movies. I'm talking about the unforgettable Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, brilliantly played by Robert Duvall, in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War ...
PENTAGON FRONT DESK: Hello. Can I help you? JESUS OF NAZARETH: Hello, my child. I am Jesus of Nazareth, here for my 10:30 appointment with Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense. FRONT DESK: OK, sure. Hold on a second. He's just finishing up with someone right now. (Out walks Mother ...
