The owners of the National Football League have concluded, with President Trump, that true patriotism is not about bravely standing up for democratic principle but about standing up, period. Rather than show a little backbone themselves and support the right of athletes to protest peacefully, the league capitulated to a president who relishes demonizing black Read More…
President Trump is in no danger of being impeached and removed from office. I say this with confidence despite having no knowledge of what Special Counsel Mueller and his team may find. That’s because impeachment is a political process rather than a legal process. As a result, things that happen outside the world of government Read More…
For those of you who caught Monday’s “Montana Talks” radio show, you asked if we could post a link to the piece I was referring to that detailed the false allegations used by Democrat Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to smear Navy Admiral Ronny Jackson. In this piece written by an Afghan war veteran for The Read More…
On the early morning of March 11 we lost an hour and gained more evening daylight — a fair trade and welcomed change to what has been an exceptionally gloomy winter. I love the snow, but I’m at once happy to see it melt away on the valley floor and to have more time to Read More…
Before there was Colin Kaepernick, there was Hank Williams Jr. In the waning days of the Reagan era, Williams vandalized one of his hits, “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight,” to produce a football broadcast theme song, “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night.” That ghastly little ditty was the opener…
Teens pick up the best and worst during NBA playoffs. I’m trying to teach my local basketball pals the value of teamwork— a lesson I learned late.
Many of our thorniest political issues are directly related to our cultural breakdown. And culture starts at home – and on the baseball diamond.
As President Donald Trump ended an almost-century-long campaign by granting a pardon to Jack Johnson, the unfairly convicted boxing champion, a question hung in many minds like a ghost: Why didn’t President Barack Obama do it when he had the chance? If it slipped anyone’s notice as to who was beating whom to the punch Read More…
When it comes to dealing with police brutality, DA elections are important and cities like Sacramento are ground zero for the debate
The Fuhrers swastika is today Israels banner!(Fidel Castro, June 2010.)
But is it enough?
You see, there were a lot of ways Colin Kaepernick could have protested.
It took two years, boycotts by fans, declining TV ratings, growing alarm among advertisers, a drop in the sale of gear and especially a public shaming by President Trump, but the owners of NFL teams have finally decided their players will not be allowed to kneel or make other protests during the playing of the Read More…
French President Emmanuel Macron this year reintroduced national service, also known as conscription, to France in order to foster patriotism and heal social divisions.
Conservatives, climate chaos skeptics and true free speech advocates should help create the legal precedents, while also pressing forward to build their own social media forums, and exposing, ridiculing, embarrassing and challenging the dominance of the Intolerant Left.
Many people love to concoct grand, elaborate conspiracies to explain the world around them. Instead of realizing they made bad decisions, it must have been some malevolent force out to get them. Instead of recognizing they are surrounded by incompetence, there must be some mysterious force pulling the strings working several steps ahead. Many people Read More…
If the Justice Department and FBI are, as we’ve been told incessantly, not merely patriots but consummate professionals, why are President Trump’s antagonists freaking out over the fact that an inspector general will assess whether political motivation tainted an investigation into the president’s campaign? The American people should get a full accounting of what transpired…
Noblesville, Indiana, became the latest site in a spate of school shootings Friday, and Americans want action. We need to understand the cause of such atrocities to stop them from happening. How fortunate, then, that the National Rifle Association is here to tell us to blame children with disabilities and on medication instead. Oliver North,…
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off The Nobel committee will presumably be disappointed, but President Trump’s summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jung-Un should stay cancelled. The meeting was much more likely to serve Kim’s interests rather than ours, and could well have begin the unraveling of the pressure campaign that is our most reliable…
Mayor Snowflake regrets. Not his clownish administration, not his demeaning effort to insert himself into the national political conversation and certainly not his hair’s-breadth avoidance of campaign-finance-related criminal charges 14 months ago. Not at all. Rather, Bill de Blasio regrets this newspaper’s relentless recounting of his local clownery, his national effrontery and Manhattan DA Cy…
Asian-Americans are among the most successful groups in the United States, but we often forget the discrimination they faced in getting where they are, as well as the challenges they still endure. No immigrant group faced as great a barrier to entry into the United States as Asians did. Chinese laborers began arriving in the…
To hear his lawyer tell it, Harvey Weinstein is in trouble for merely defending one of Hollywood’s longest and best-known traditions. “Mr. Weinstein did not invent the casting couch in Hollywood,” attorney Benjamin Brafman said Friday after the Manhattan DA charged his client with raping one woman and forcing another to perform oral sex. Added…
Junkies dump 5,000 used needles a week in Bronx parks — at St. Mary’s, they shoot up in broad daylight. In Manhattan’s Washington Square Park, crack is back. In Brooklyn, scores of people have OD’d on K2. Now Mayor de Blasio wants to end arrests for public pot-smoking. Huh? Is his goal to hand the…
Gunfire at an Indiana middle school Friday served as yet more proof: This kind of horror won’t end on its own. So it’s good to see Gov. Cuomo vowing to take new steps to address the madness. Officials say a student at the school wounded two before being stopped. This, a week after the killing…
The NFL is standing for America. It finally displayed leadership Wednesday, announcing that it has banned players from kneeling on the field while our national anthem is played. Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement, “This season, all league and team personnel shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.” Players can Read More…
U.S. threats to crush Iran and North Korea may yet work, but as of now neither Tehran nor Pyongyang appears to be intimidated. Repeated references by NSC adviser John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence to the “Libya model” for denuclearization of North Korea just helped sink the Singapore summit of President Trump and Kim Read More…
Harvey Weinstein is out on bail. Incredible. The allowances made at Friday morning’s arraignment — Weinstein turning himself in looking clean and bookish, rather than be taken into custody in a 4 a.m. bust — may set the tone for the entire trial. No detail is too small, as the press, prosecutors and Weinstein himself, Read More…
As a political scientist, I’ve always preferred maps to polling data. Don’t get me wrong, I think that well-conducted polls, when properly interpreted, provide valuable information about voter preferences. Maps, however, can provide clues to the more important question of why voters arrive at their choice. That’s why I was so intrigued when I opened Read More…
Chiefly observed as summer’s kickoff, a weekend of auto racing, shopping, American flags, and grilling out – Memorial Day was originally dedicated to solemn remembrance of the nation’s war dead. That’s still the holiday’s nominal purpose. It honors all kinds – well-to-do and hardscrabble, bright and dim, genteel and loutish. The only requirement, but a Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON — President Trump’s letter canceling his June 12 summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is a coy piece of manipulation — flattering and threatening Kim at the same time. It’s like the letters people send when breaking up a romance that hasn’t quite ripened. The words seem heartfelt, Read More…
“F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims,” read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. “The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016,” read a story in the May 21 Read More…
The U.S. embassy move undermines peace efforts, as does the increase in West Bank settlers. Time is running out for solutions there and in Gaza.
Good morning, it’s Friday, May 25, 2018. Marie Castello was born in Neptune City, New Jersey on this date in 1915. If you don’t know that name, you’re probably not for the Jersey Shore. I’m not either, but I know rock ’n’ roll, which is why several years ago on a trip to Asbury Park, Read More…
WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un may be the deal that got away. Trump and his team weathered insults, tolerated unanswered phone calls and waited hours for negotiating partners who never showed up as they sought to keep the planned Singapore summit with Kim on track. With prospects dimming and aides Read More…
Every day law enforcement officers have lies launched against them.
President Trump has many limitations, to put it mildly, but he is brilliant at the dark art of branding. Those seeking to hold him accountable had better study his technique — and learn to fight fire with fire. Witness how Trump is trying to use the word “spy” as a weapon against the FBI, the Read More…
Tell Americans in real time if adversaries like Russia are trying to hack and manipulate the vote. It’s the best way to protect the 2018 elections.
After the Santa Fe and Parkland school shootings, parents need to draw the line. We can make Congress pay attention by keeping our kids at home.
Donald Trump was never going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, anyway. He demonstrated “the art of the deal” with his cancellation of the “summit” with Kim Jong-un, which North Korea had skillfully begun to portray as a triumph of its own statecraft. The president pulled the rug out from …
Virtually every issue has become a partisan football in America’s politicized age of anti-Trump hysteria. Except one. The debate that has bucked this trend is the #MeToo campaign, which has successfully cut across party lines, wealth divides, race and religion. This powerful campaign has focused on taking down anyone who has exploited power and fame Read More…
When I was a teenager, strangers would sometimes stop in front of our house to take pictures of our front yard. We lived on a run-down street with no sidewalks or paved driveways in what was then a low-income neighborhood in a low-income town 45 minutes outside Orlando. But people didn’t stop because of the Read More…
If you have chronic, agonizing pain, your troubles are about to get worse. New state and federal regulations will make it nearly impossible to get the prescription painkillers you need. Grandstanding politicians are imposing one-size-fits-all limits on how much medication patients can receive and for how long. Pols claim they’re combating the opioid crisis, but Read More…
Boy, oh boy does Mayor de Blasio hate the press. That’s the most striking takeaway from the 4,200 pages of e-mails the mayor finally released Thursday, three years after The Post’s Yoav Gonen and NY1’s Grace Rauh requested them under the state Freedom of Information Law. Turns out de Blasio isn’t just set off by Read More…