How would starting the United States on a round of territorial expansion fit in with vows to chop $2 trillion out of the budget? Not well, and another reason to dismiss the clown show.
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Clarence Page: Behind the “Lie of the Year,” some bitter truths
We need to get back to giving newcomers a more proper welcome, but I guess we’ve got to get past another election first.
What you think you know about Ukraine is probably wrong
What worries the peoples of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, as well as the Baltic States and (quietly) Kazakhstan, is that the independence they finally regained in 1991 may prove just another interlude in this expansionist story of Russia.
Austin Bay: The next Pearl Harbor: Close-in drone swarm attacks launched from US soil?
The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights — flickering, hovering, then disappearing.
How to visit, pronounce Bremen, Vienna, Madrid, Calais, Peru & Palermo — while never leaving the 207
Our town names may have been inspired by foreign locales, but not necessarily their pronounciation.
Rich Lowry: Joe Biden’s commutations racket
President Joe Biden, or whoever is running the White House, grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again.
Jeff Robbins: Delayed Reaction: Joe Biden won’t be short sold forever
Had Russia succeeded in subjugating Ukraine, as it surely would have but for Biden’s skilled, determined response to the invasion, the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe would be under threat of being next on Putin’s menu.
Clarence Page: Elon takes on Washington, but can he take it over?
Will this era be remembered as the time when Donald Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?
Cal Thomas: Protecting the lives of murderers, but not babies
Pope Francis may praise Biden for his commutations, but will he issue anything approaching condemnation for the president’s refusal to defend the unborn who cannot defend themselves?
Froma Harrop: Do you want Donald Trump to succeed or America?
Much of America has come a long distance, and not in a good way, to equating one man’s interests with America’s.