While many in the Republican Party rally to his side -– albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm -- Trump continues to make it almost impossible for large swaths of the party’s voters to join the Trump train.

The lead prosecutor investigating the Foster death for the Office of Independent Counsel resigned and wrote, “the existing FBI interview reports and USPP interview reports do not accurately reflect witness statements.”

The goals of Long War aficionados are “stability” and “nation building” and other such vagaries. Success or military victory is not part of the discussion.

 In many ways the problems that currently face the American economy are far deeper than those that were staring at Ronald Reagan after he won the 1980 election.

When large denominations like the United Methodists have nothing more to offer the modern world than that world’s own problematic concept of love, one has to wonder why they even bother to exist. 

When you are not that interested in power, you find that the whole world opens up to you. 

The FX Cable Network series seen on Wednesdays explores deep waters through the eyes of Soviet agents posing as a normal, middle class American couple.

A tale emblematic of the strain of honor and bravery that still permeates the American character

“And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?"

Is BDS free speech, a democratic movement to effect change in the Mideast, or anti-Semitic discrimination intended to destroy Israel? 

The brighter side of Memorial Day.

Two stories of incredible courage to commemorate our troops.

No one person can presume to actually understand the mental and physical toll military service takes on a soldier.

For the first time, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s dirty laundry will be on full display to the world.

The beauty and benefit of the coming five months is that Trump will have the field to himself, so we can get a very good idea about what kind of president he will be.

If Russia is an enigma, it is due to Western blindness, a blindness that is largely due to spiritual cataracts. 

Islamic Sharia law is incompatible with conventions on human rights regarding the place of women in the legal order and in all spheres of private and public life. 

Turkish president Erdoğan's ambitions are clear: a new Ottoman Empire.  His maniacal plan will lead his nation into disaster.

Everyone advocating legislation seeks to impose a conception of morality or, as modernists are wont to put it, a “values” set.

A recent and disturbing development.

Hillary simply has almost all the traits (and history) of a successful mob boss, including a close knit group of loyal confederates who operate under a code of omerta.  

You won't hear about this in the English-speaking press.  But it's all over Arabic-language news outlets.

Obama forgets that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the end result of murderous tyrants’ seeking to extinguish freedom and liberty throughout the world. 

The Japanese were much closer to making an atomic bomb than most Americans know. And they would have used it if they could.

We should avoid bestowing power on any position without picturing our worst nightmare in that position able to exercise that power. 

The left is all about the destruction of the Constitution, about smashing the traditional values of conservatives. And they have succeeded to a remarkable degree.

We must have an honorable alternative to these two odious candidates. 

Resetting Americans’ trust in government needs to start with holding people in high office, like Hillary Clinton, accountable.    

America will celebrate Memorial Day in 2016 with the two presidential candidates, for the first time ever, having never been part of those armed services whose sacrifice we honor on that holiday.

Had economic growth been anywhere close to historical norms since the 2008 crisis, it is doubtful that complaints about other nations “stealing” U.S. jobs would have nearly as much currency.

Entitlements have turned Uncle Sam into a surrogate husband for millions.  Pharaoh Sam is not far behind.

To create a superhero Israeli woman for its season finale, the producers and writers of NCIS concocted a rather monstrous Jewish State.

And the New York Times, the British Guardian, and the rest of the mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic are chief among the colluders.

The Sierra Club remains intent on waging a “war on coal”, hiding the fact that this war is costing Americans money and jobs. 

There’s little doubt among diehard Hillary supporters that Madame Secretary is a rarified role model of brains and accomplishment, whose time to pivot toward the presidency has more than come.  

When your solar energy plant catches fire, that's a big problem.  But it's not the biggest one.

Enough years of torture had passed.  It was time for the rare conservative college professor to choose between tenure and happiness.

No party can abuse its voters by showing so much fecklessness and violating so many of its principles as the GOP has done over the past decade, and still expect its members to remain faithful.

It is truly a new era, with our President of Fundamental Transformation lifting embargos on old communist enemies from the Western Hemisphere to Southeast Asia.

The Chinese want to be the undisputed masters of Asia, similar to the early and mid 20th Century Japanese with their “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” 

Since my vote belongs to me, it is my right to say that I cannot and will not vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

The big, big question is whether anything can shake our deeply dysfunctional establishment

In acquitting the officer, Judge Barry G. Williams (who has consistently tried to help out the prosecution) did Baltimore’s State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby a huge favor by not throwing out her unprecedented and dangerous theory of the case

What was once perceived to be Leviathan's mostly fiscal threat to the health and well-being of our nation is now a monstrous moral threat.  

The face of 21^st century fascism is religious – and Islamic. Putin gets it, even if Obama is oblivious,

With two unsavory candidates and both parties' bases disgusted, 2016 may be the Libertarian Party's year to make a difference.

From Hillary to Trump to everyone between, each candidate for the presidency is going to have to address this one.

Like any entrepreneur or experienced businessman, Donald Trump does not think like a modern-day politician. 

America is living out the scenario the Founders feared.

Mark Zuckerberg knows what is good for him, and that is making the proper offerings to the liberal gods.

Beck found Zuck and Company cordial — they just found him useful. 

Nestled in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont, Rutland is an unsuspecting city targeted for refugee resettlement.

The vital question for Europe and for the democratic world is whether Hofer’s strong performance will embolden further anti-immigration policies in other countries.

'Critical thinking' assures that students will never develop any understanding that left-wing policies are both moral and economic disasters.

To Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Scalia’s death was a cause for celebration, a chance for de facto repeal of the Second Amendment via legislating from the bench.

One obvious culprit stood to gain from the destruction of this plane and the brutal slaughter of its passengers and crew.

We are looking at two extremely unsavory candidates in the 2016 presidential election.  Someone has got to step in to fix this situation.

With Venezuela spinning toward chaos, it’s said that U.S. officials fear a military coup. We ought to ask “Why?”

A healthy culture protects its children against bizarre sexual experiments.

Promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that will bring even more dangerously contaminated seafood to the United States.

His strategy may have worked so far, but the general election is a very different animal from the primaries.

Turkey's president may be a friend to Barack Obama, but that doesn't say anything about his disposition toward the United States.

Watching this administration in action one wonders what, if anything,Obama understands about the Constitution at all. 

"Transgenderism" is but another spoke in the wheel of leftist totalitarianism and has little to do with the 0.3% of the population it claims to be concerned with. 

Think it can't be done?  It can – and it needs to be.

Russia cannot be a superpower as was the Soviet Union, but it has a role in international politics.  

How can the pope equate the "conquest" missions of Christianity and Islam?

A soccer match in Spain today has become a potent symbol of the European movement away from centralized governments and toward local autonomy.

International trade deals have benefited American consumers to the tune of billions of dollars in savings and benefits. 

There are a lot of psychological red flags here.
 

It would be cowardly, irresponsible and dishonorable to surrender God's gift of our great land to tyranny and total debauchery. 

The WaPo "Redskins" poll conclusively reveals that the opposition is nothing more than a tiny minority of Native American activists supported by mainstream leftist Democrat politicians.

As most of us suspected, Iran’s promises to keep to the ‘deal’ have proven to be entirely fictional

A proposal to include women in the draft was narrowly defeated in the House Rules Committee this week. But that's just a start. Men should be exempted from the draft, too.

Sisi is emerging as a strong respected leader among Egyptians despite the Western media’s portrayal of him as a dictator similar to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.  

We are a Christian nation -- or we are no nation at all.

The institutionalization of genderlessness represents a massive redistribution of stress within our nation.  

American conservatives should not be legislating morality, whenever possible. 

Often the Clintons seem to have almost supernatural "luck" that defies the best house odds in Las Vegas.  The 2016 election is shaping up to be no exception.

Did Obama really save the world from a Great Depression, or did he merely push the next depression off into the future? 

As commander-in-chief, Obama is not supposed to interpose himself into military justice considerations. But in the Bergdahl case, he did just that. 

Many Middle Eastern problems are related to the ideological policies of the Islamic imperialist regime in Iran

Demanding that the rich pay their fair share in taxes is part of the age-old Democratic Party playbook that uses class warfare to acquire and hold power. 

When the nation's most prominent newspapers slam Trump for misogyny while letting the supremely misogynist Clintons skate, you know there's trouble on the way.

History is littered with the carnage caused by giving the very bad political power while rejecting the much better and waiting for the ideal.

The cable news dueling talking-heads discussing POTUS candidates routinely say that Donald Trump is not a conservative, particularly compared to, say, Paul Ryan who is a rock-ribbed, true-blue conservative. Really?

Rallying against the specter of imaginary racial inequity, a new push for affirmative action is taking Hollywood beyond the black/white binary divide.

Whatever the issue – from Hiroshima to your local school's bathroom – Barack Obama has a moralizing finger to wag!

This was a real missed opportunity.
 

How can sane citizens can function in a country increasingly dominated by liberal madness, or even attempt to change it from the “transformations” perpetrated over the past eight years? 

The teenager claimed he'd been beaten and called a racial slur.  It took the city's police force and a lot of aggravation to figure out the truth.

Pundits are now fond of comparing the Republican Party unpleasantness of 2016 to the dissolution of the Whig Party (1833-1854). There’s more than a little truth in that analogy.

This is the stuff of comedy.  Yet millions of Democrats take it seriously.

We've seen this sort of populism before.

Does Iran's shaky economy portend an upcoming regime change?

We live in a time when Islam is seeing a reactionary revival of mass murder against infidels. But historically Jihad has not always been violent.

New scientific discoveries in astrophysics and archeology make the notion of “settled science” risible. Most of existence still is a profound mystery

What a shame if the Republican Party squandered this opportunity.

The time for wise political advice, or sneers at the stupid voters, or ten-point plans, is past.

Trump ought to put out a formal position on education policy that includes a promise to abolish the Department of Education.  

ObamaCare is draining funds from responsible, steadily employed taxpayers to pay for the self-inflicted choices of free riders. 

A president Trump will see his legacy rise or fall on how he handles our enemies abroad.

The British people seem ready to leave the European Union.

Democrats continue their 200-year tradition of setting low standards for African Americans.

If people want to worship nature, that is their right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. But it is illegitimate to disguise nature worship as science. 

Sometimes, the best way to eliminate a bad social code is to enforce it strictly.

The Equality Act is designed to add sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex to the Civil Rights Act and empower the Federal government to determine exactly what that entails for the foreseeable future. 

If the Republicans could better communicate the real reason the Democrats want the national minimum wage raised (and the flaws with Democratic thinking), the discussion could be very different.

When catastrophic events like Ft. McMurray's dramatic fire threaten to upend oil prices, the American government needs to be ready.  That's not happening now.

Hillary Clinton is dangerous because of what she would do. Donald Trump is dangerous because he doesn’t know what he is doing or saying. 

Ridicule is a proper response to attorney general’s equating public schools’ blocking self-identifying boys from using girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms to segregation of blacks.

Teaching While White  is becoming an occupational hazard these days. So is being a white student, for that matter. 

There is no real alternative to the US News rankings of law schools, and the newsweekly's list has become extraordinarily powerful.

When Trump announced, I thought he was a joke. Now I am an enthusiastic supporter. A step-by-step account of my transition.

In the waning days of his presidency, when all bets are off, we may see a catastrophe in the Middle East.  Obama's consistent treatment of Israel makes this a real possibility.

If past is prelude, even a Republican-controlled Senate can’t be counted on to rebuff a Hillary appointee; it’s more likely to vote “No” – and make it stick -- if Trump goes off the rails. 

 Why hasn’t Iran used its military muscle to assure a permanent power shift in the Mideast?

In case you missed the hoopla, I was almost run off the Vanderbilt University campus in 2015 by student protesters and petitions denouncing me for bigotry and hatred.

And can Trump supporters admit it?

Somehow, helping overseas workers with "fair trade" imports displays social responsibility, but shunning $15.00 shirts made in rural Alabama in favor of the $5.00 version from China is celebrated by economists as marketplace “sophistication.” 

According to some economic troglodytes, we’re only in the economic sweet spot if we’re manufacturing cheap Bic pens and Keds. 

2016 may be a disastrous year for American conservatism, but 2020 could be the year of conservative revival.

Amidst widespread dissatisfaction with the presumptive nominees of both the Democrats and Republicans, the Libertarian Party is getting a fresh look by many. Here is the field competing for its nomination.

In a Middle East, all too replete with failed states, dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, civil wars, terrorist groups, and intra-Muslim religious conflicts, Israel is the only democratic nation. 

Not only do Reagan and Trump have preciously little common, from their policies to their person, there may be no two men more glaringly different.

I knew immediately that he was a fraud the first time I watched Barack Obama.

It’s as if the Black Lives Matter movement were running Baltimore and the judicial system. 

Our leadership rejects  the motivating factor for Trump's tens of millions of supporters: The United States is in decline, brought about by the combined arrogance and incompetence of our professional ruling class.

Investments in Israeli defense and defense industries will pay dividends in the United States and to our NATO allies. 

The world heritage organization has swallowed the Palestinian Narrative of Victimhood hook, line, and sinker.

The American health-care system is being systematically infiltrated by medical personnel sympathetic to Jihadi terrorism. 

There is one man who could doom Hillary Clinton’s presidential chances against Donald Trump.  And there is no pressure that could be brought against him by the infamous Clinton Machine to dissuade him.

And wouldn't lose a minute's sleep for having so voted.

Google’s Doodles aren’t absentminded; they aren’t even spontaneous fun.  They don’t celebrate our religious holidays with relish nor emphasize our American luminaries.  They are deliberate, agenda-driven, social action propaganda.

Call me an idiot, call me whatever, but never call me a traitor.

A U.S. president should always think carefully before he criticizes another world leader or foreign nation. 

The dream of world government by supranational entities such as the EU and the U.N. is persistent and strong.  

Effete right-wing media types like Glenn Beck and Charles Koch need to stop likening Trump supporters to Nazis.
 

One of the White House's most prominent advisers has called mainstream reporters a bunch of 27-year-olds who know nothing.

Batten down the hatches.  With an unrestrained narcissist in the White House, this could be the worst one yet.

Trump deserves credit more than any conservative for fracturing the foundation of political correctness, upon which rests the entire liberal superstructure. 

Colleges will spread enlightenment down to K-12, or K-12 will spread decay and decline upward into the Ivory Tower.  It's not looking good so far.

Yep: Donald Trump is on the list.

While a multi-party system might be chaotic, it would be an improvement.

Poland is generally well-motivated to defend itself. And defending itself against Russia only adds to Polish motivation. 

To believe there would be no difference between a Trump presidency and a Clinton one is to have ignored the last quarter-century of American history. 

Inspired by Bruce Jenner and other intrepid souls, I’ve decided to finally start living the life I was meant to: I identify as Barack Obama. Ccompassion dictates I be allowed to use the bathroom of my choice, which happens to be in the White House.

It is ironic that liberals who insisted we stay out of the bedrooms of homosexuals and lesbians now insist transgendered people should not stay out of the wrong bathroom.

Much of the Obama presidency can be seen as nothing but fable making, especially, but not exclusively, in foreign policy. 

The Navy's new antimissile site at Deveselu, Romania is one of the few bright spots in the U.S. response to Putin's Russia.

The easiest way to get creative is with sex. Why not make a cult out of ringing the changes on sex, LGBT-wise? 

Are anger and contempt all there is to make of this primary cycle?  Or is something else happening here?

The GOP establishment wanted to make certain no constitutional conservative would win the nomination, and nominate someone considered to be an ideological moderate.  They have succeeded beyond their dreams. 

All Trump did was act as the coroner, examining the GOP corpse, declaring it dead, and signing the death certificate.

What the Founders knew, Trump knows
 

In this case, both may be devils, but one certainly fits that description.

Ken Livingston’s remarks about Israel have outraged even the leaders of the British Labour Party.

The battle of the sexes keeps getting uglier.

Where there are sellers, there are buyers. And now we know there are sellers.

If you thought there had ever been any rational debate on the president’s vainglorious plan even within the Administration to reorient the Middle East, David Samuels's article should put that notion to rest.

Running a viable insurgent candidate is desirable for many reasons, but most important is the fact that he or she could actually win in a vote in the House of Representatives.

There are dangers in smart gun technology, which uses computers to identify whether the person holding the gun is authorized to pull the trigger.

Manifestations of anti-Semitism, interrelated with animosity towards the State of Israel, though far fewer than in France, have occurred in a number of Italian cities. 

Instead of providing a hemispheric ideal, a Clinton government will mirror the corruption and political dysfunctionality of many of our Latin American neighbors.

The Grand Old Party cannot condone the reactionaryism espoused by Trump and his followers, and also function as a viable conduit for conservative principles. 

Today marks the anniversary of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most important economists of the 20^th century.

Trump’s campaign against Mexico will destroy his run for the presidency. 

It‘s the talk among some pundits that conservatism is dead, after political hodgepodge Donald Trump presumptively won the nomination of the Republican Party. Not so fast.

As the primary season ends, this should be a good time to talk about what might be done differently in the future.

There’s one source of Planned Parenthood’s funding that never enters the conversation -- a secret weapon since the beginning.

On the one hand, contributions to the war on terror.  On the other, contributions to terrorism.

Whether Trump wins or loses the presidency in November, the Republican Party will never be the same.

America took a lot of imagination. The idea that you could manage your own affairs without a King telling you what to do or an established religion telling you what to believe. It was also the fashion in which we raised our children.

The Washington Post's house Republican doesn't seem to have much use for populism.  But one of history's greatest conservatives sure did.

Defensive actions to forestall attacks on us from Muslim solo actors or ragtag militia cadres is not “an attack against all faiths.”

With Trump’s nomination, and Sanders pushing the Democrats even further into a statist authoritarian model, this is a tough time for conservatives. 

A sore loser is one thing, but a sore winner is something else altogether.

Feeling a little discouraged? Demoralized? Nauseous? Trust me, I sympathize. Permit me to attempt to raise your spirits, or at least stiffen your resolve; you still have very important and not at all futile work to do.

These are the two criteria that make Donald Trump worth voting for.

We need a leader. Actually, we need many at the local, state, and national level.

Now we're told at this early date to "get over it." We being those conservatives who aggressively opposed Donald Trump, of course. So what exactly should we get over?

They're closer to the ground than you think.

We must begin calling out leftists' racist hypocrisy.

Democrat elites will rue the day that they helped grease the skids for Hillary.  They’ll rue putting the screws to every viable – or seemingly viable – alternative to Plastic Hillary

Trump voters have been called foolish, disgusting, frustrated, misguided, crazy, stupid, idiotic, dummies, willfully ignorant, defying common sense, driven by emotion, alienated, irrational and unthinking, an incompetent mob, thugs, hideous, hateful, xenophobic, violent, fanatics, Nazis, and worse.

Anti-Semitism, poetically dubbed “the oldest hatred, forever young,” is rearing its ugly head in a rapidly unfolding scandal within the United Kingdom’s Labour Party. 

Trump is the chosen vehicle of the rebellion against a system that has failed us.

The highest office in this country is now within reach of a man who has jettisoned any concern for truth and intelligence. 

The District of Columbia was never meant to be a permanent residence for anybody.  Congress should stop treating it as one.

The dirty little secret of capitalism is that it can only work its magic and raise up the poor from indigence if you let it destroy the commanding heights of today’s economy. 

In 2008 McCain won just 43% of the women’s vote compared to 56% for Barack Obama, the worst result for a Republican to date. With a female nominee for the Democrats in 2016, will this record be broken?

Disrespect for constitutional order is a political disease of the democratic form of government that progressive interests have vigorously encouraged.

It's time to take a sledgehammer to the process Republican voters are so disgusted with.

Democrats have long erased their sordid racist history from our textbooks, but if you go back to original source documents, the entire shocking truth is available.

Academia crashes and burns on the Left Coast.

To any degree that America has lost her greatness, she has lost her goodness. 

It is only the Israeli part of the Golan that transfixes the UN.  

In The Arena is a special book as it invokes the words of Teddy Roosevelt and makes them relevant to today. 

There is a vital need for a strengthening of the political immune system before the infection of anti-Semitism worsens.

Think you can guess who the real nominee will be?

Forget "crony capitalism."  This is crony socialism, and it's hitting you right in the wallet.
 

The primary system isn’t really a “system.” Rather, it’s a mishmash of methods for choosing convention delegates. Yet, folks are expected to defer to it, to the so-called "will of the primary voters".

So it’s come to this in the war of elite America vs. Donald Trump

Carly is a shrewd choice at the perfect time.
 

The Obama administration is indifferent to the apocalyptic threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. 

It is predictable that in the end phases of the 2016 election Hollywood will try to shape public perceptions. But in a big budget/big star vehicle film, we can guardedly take heart.

As coarse as he seems to coastal pundits and as frightening a prospect as he is to the professional political consultant class, Trump is striking a chord with the voters.

In the faculty clubs of Harvard and MIT, Obamacare made great sense. But when running into human nature, it fails miserably.

I am certain you’ve never heard of me, unless you are a friend or relative, because I am just a beginner at politics. Yet somehow, in this most contentious political year for Republicans, I am going to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a delegate.

The Trump University fraud case is serious business, one that speaks volumes about Trump’s business ethics.

An engaging spiritual realism characterizes recent films on the themes of morality and spirituality, right and wrong, life and death. These movies all offer fine performances and compelling story lines.

“This is reminiscent of the events leading up to the start of the Armenian genocide on April 24, 1915, when properties were illegally confiscated and the population was displaced under the false guise of temporary relocation for its own protection”

Leaving the Iran-centered Islamist bloc to its own devices and granting it leverage in the region in hopes that it will behave itself and stick to its own business is only an illusion