There are inevitably several jokes going around in the circles that I frequent that “MAGA” should instead be “MIGA” as the recent U.S. national election only allowed one to choose between two parties that tried to excel in expressing their love for the Jewish state, with the winner Donald Trump’s Republicans ending up on top to “Make Israel Great[er] Again.”
America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other.
Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president, tried his best to justify Israel’s daily massacres in Gaza last week in front of an audience in Michigan—a major swing state in the 2024 presidential election with a large Muslim population skeptical of voting for Kamala Harris.
China on Monday conducted its largest military exercise ever off the coast of Taiwan to warn the island against seeking independence under Taipei’s new president Lai Ching-te, who Beijing has called a “troublemaker.”
The debate last week between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was marked by sharp exchanges on a range of contentious issues.
Some commentators who bothered to watch the Trump-Harris debate observed that both candidates adroitly maneuvered around saying anything that might be truly important.
The Republican and Democratic National Conventions, always heavy on glamor and light on substance, are over. It’s time to move beyond sloganeering and address reality.
One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss.
Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: our constitutional republic has given way to a theocracy structured around the worship of a political savior.
The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech. It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials.