There's a sarcastic if not morbid joke within the ranks of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation about the meaning of its acronym, FDIC, as it pertains to the numerous "lifers" who have been employed at the FDIC for decades: "Found...
Many Republicans and conservatives have accused today's Democratic Party of using "lawfare" against President Donald Trump and his supporters. They claim that this use of lawfare against a political opponent is unprecedented. But it is not unprecedented. What follows is...
Political campaigns are governed by the principle of action and reaction. Most political consultants give full importance to action and completely forget about reaction. While it is important to be the first to hit the opponent, it is even more...
The Search for Reagan By Craig Shirley (Post Hill Press, 336 pages, $29) It was 20 years ago today, June 5, 2004, that Ronald Reagan passed away. I remember where I was when I heard the news. Many of you...
California has reached a point where it is, on a fundamental level, fiscally unsound. The budget deficit — which by one estimate amounts to $73 billion — is not the result of an off year that happened to generate lower...
Ibram X. Kendi, one of the premier philosopher-kings of 2020's "racial reckoning," is now facing a reckoning of his own. Or at least, that's the title of today's lengthy New York Times magazine profile of Kendi's fall from grace ("Ibram...
Yesterday, Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman elected president of Mexico. The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City and climate scientist will replace her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on Oct. 1. Sheinbaum's victory was marred by the violence...
Climate change activists are back at it again. Last week, Roger Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, predicted that 12 percent of Phoenix, Arizona's population will die from extreme heat in the 2030s. On today's episode of The Spectator P.M....
While we still do not know — indeed, likely will never know — what conduct the Manhattan jury convicted President Trump of committing, one possibility would evidence the gross duality and unfairness of "justice" in America, 2024. If Trump was...