WASHINGTON -- After years of smearing good people with false charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account. A former Islamic radical named Maajid Nawaz sued the center for including him in its bogus "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists," and th…
WASHINGTON -- On the issue of child separation, President Trump had to be dragged kicking and screaming into basic humanity. His initial goal was to create terror in migrants without provoking revulsion in the broader public. He failed. Trump may be immune to sympathy, but he is not immune t…
Just after 8 o’clock Thursday morning, I called Eli Henderson, Calhoun County’s unofficial mayor. He was at home, sitting outside, watching it rain. I figured he’d be fishing.
WASHINGTON -- "This," exclaimed Margaret Thatcher, thumping Friedrich Hayek's 500-page tome "The Constitution of Liberty" on a table in front of some Conservative Party colleagues, "is what we believe." It also is what Bill Weld believes, which is why he aspires to be the Libertarian Party's…
When the Justice Department inspector general's report revealed that former FBI director James B. Comey had used a personal email account to conduct official business, Hillary Clinton claimed vindication. "But my emails," she tweeted.
WASHINGTON -- Cracking down on illegal immigration was never going to be pleasant, but this?
Jeff Sessions, a man of God, has lost his own church.
WASHINGTON -- Logic not being the strong point of the Trump administration, it claims that it is not to blame for the separation of families at the border, and that a just God is pleased it is happening.
I was talking with my mechanic last week. (He let me know that, after 15 years and almost 300,000 miles, it’s about time for my pickup to be put out to pasture. These are dark days, but I digress.)
WASHINGTON -- Put yourself in the room with immigration officials and try to imagine exactly which argument would convince you that separating children from their migrating parents would be a good idea.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., wonders: "Is there any doubt that America would view a foreign nation firing missiles at targets on American soil as an act of war?" His question might be pertinent to why the Singapore summit happened, and what, if anything, was changed by it. The questi…
WASHINGTON -- The moral outrages from the Trump administration come so fast that they blur together, but this one stands out: The unconscionably cruel policy of ripping the children of would-be immigrants away from their parents at the border.
WASHINGTON -- Well, that didn't take long. President Trump had barely departed Singapore when Democrats in Washington unleashed scathing attacks over his meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. "What the United States has gained is vague and unverifiable at best. What North Korea has…
You know that vacant block of Quintard Avenue, the one between 9th and 10th streets, that by now was to feature fast-casual restaurants and retail shops?
WASHINGTON -- Karl Marx was no more mistaken than usual when he said that historic people and events appear twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. Today's advocates of a musty fragment of the 1970s, the Equal Rights Amendment, are demonstrating that something that begins as farce can reappe…
WASHINGTON -- Well, it happened: The president and the dictator met, shook hands, looked each other in the eye, smiled for the cameras -- and lied through their teeth.
WASHINGTON -- A few years ago, I was talking with Charles Krauthammer in the Fox News green room when the news that someone famous had passed away flashed on the television screen. Charles told me the way he hoped to go when his time came. His dream, he said, was to be assassinated during th…
Between now and November, Kay Ivey and Walt Maddox will criss-cross Alabama, boring us with speeches, attending rallies and acquiescing to interviews. They’ll make promises, sincere or not. Maddox will rail on Ivey’s leadership as replacement governor. Ivey will label Maddox as a Democratic …
WASHINGTON -- Are you old enough to remember when the Republican Party had principles and a backbone? It seems so long ago.
BERLIN -- It is strange being in a foreign country and watching American post-World War II leadership -- as practiced by presidents such as Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan -- collapse into a heap of chaos, ignorance and self-indulgence.
WASHINGTON -- Back when the Soviet Union had a first-rate nuclear arsenal but a ramshackle third-world economy that produced no consumer goods other than vodka and caviar that anyone elsewhere would buy, the nation was disparaged as "Upper Volta with rockets." Today the question is: Would No…
WASHINGTON -- Charles Krauthammer, a man who has beaten unbelievable odds and overcome obstacles that would defeat most mortals, has finally encountered one foe over which he says he can't claim victory.
I know how hard the people inside these walls of Consolidated Publishing Co. work to produce quality journalism products, but I also know we’re not perfect, so the intent here isn’t self-praise.
WASHINGTON -- The bombastic, belligerent, inexperienced and unpredictable leader of a nuclear-armed nation, a man who flouts international norms and agreements, is scheduled to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday. What could go wrong? How much time do you have?
WASHINGTON -- Sometimes a movement can be sabotaged by its victories.
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