Democratic President Harry Truman popularized the term “do-nothing Congress” and rode that taunt to an unexpected victory in 1948. Truman, a vice president who rose to commander in chief after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945, didn’t simply beat his Republican opponent, New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, that year. His party also came roaring […]
JERUSALEM — Eleven months after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre triggered a tragic war, Israel’s high-tech sector, a major driver of the economy, is showing small signs of recovery. Investment in Israeli technology companies, which dropped from a record-breaking $28.2 billion in 2021 to $17.5 billion in 2022 and $8 billion in 2023, could […]
Ronald Reagan was long familiar to moviegoers as an actor. Now he is back in theaters as a subject with the release of the new motion picture about his life and history-altering presidency, Reagan. Director Sean McNamara, renowned for his work on films such as Soul Surfer and The Miracle Season, and Robert Davi, an […]
In the first such ruling against a tech giant in the modern internet era, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declared Google an illegal monopolist. The case was originally brought by the Department of Justice during the Trump administration. The Biden administration continued to charge the company […]
Border Patrol agents have recorded at least 10 million illegal immigrants who have flooded the country since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office. But that figure doesn’t include the 2 million known “gotaways” and countless others who have evaded formal detection by law enforcement officers. In addition to this being a […]
Vice President Kamala Harris crowed when the federal government released its monthly jobs numbers for June. “The latest jobs report shows America’s economy added 206,000 jobs in June, continuing record job growth,” Harris said on Facebook on July 5 in celebration of that month’s Bureau of Labor Statistics release. “That’s more jobs created in June […]
The life of an NFL rookie is difficult. You must learn a new playbook, deal with multiple rookie chores, and try to avoid being shot when your new home is run by Democrats. San Francisco 49ers first-round pick Ricky Pearsall found this out the hard way. Pearsall was born in Phoenix and played college football […]
Pity poor Florida: hurricanes, alligators, drug lords, strip malls, scammers. But Floridians also have Carl Hiaasen, the former Miami Herald reporter who has spun the eccentricities of his home state into a dozen and a half beloved comic crime novels. Now Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of Ted Lasso, has adapted Hiaasen’s novel Bad Monkey into […]
Less than a year after Kari Lake lost a winnable gubernatorial race in Arizona, she was back on her horse. At the kickoff event for her 2024 Senate campaign last October, she rolled the tape on a video recorded by former President Donald Trump, who explained that he would need “strong fighters like Kari in […]
I am going to attempt something that might strike you as eccentric. Over the next 750 words, I am going to seek to persuade you, a citizen of the world’s greatest republic, that the United Kingdom is wrong to phase out its last hereditary peers — that is, the last 92 members of the House […]
