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USS Liberty incident wasn’t Israeli treachery

For elements of the anti-Israel right, it’s a time when everything old is becoming new again. So, a half-century-old theory that the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War has renewed currency. Conspiratorial-minded influencers hostile to Israel like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have promoted the notion, and it was a topic of discussion at the recent TPUSA conference. One speaker said that the official explanation “doesn’t feel like it’s good enough,” and floated his own wild speculation (involving the complicity of LBJ). The fact ...

‘There is no laptop’

Hunter Biden is a shameless liar. It’s just as true today as it was in the midst of his binges on crack and hookers. It’s also true that the elitist media have long shown a deep desire to ignore him entirely, and when they couldn’t, it was a sad family tragedy, so head for the handkerchiefs. The Daily Caller reports that Hunter went on “The Shawn Ryan Show” podcast to unload more whoppers, and no lie was more shameless than this: “What I can tell you about the laptop is that there is no laptop. That’s bulls--t.” Ryan replied, “There was no f---ing laptop?” Hunter ...

Take time to collect all the bright spots

Sometimes as we’re wrapping up the year, it’s easy to drift into negativity. End-of-year evaluations tend to produce mixed finding — some areas show strong results, while others fall short. It’s human nature to focus on what didn’t go as planned. Add in the stress and exhaustion of the holiday season, along with budget pressures and goal-setting for the year ahead, and it becomes even easier to miss all the good things that were accomplished over the past year. This is why it’s powerful to end the year by collecting and sharing bright spots that occurred in ...

Politics get stranger

Politics is becoming stranger than ever and worst mannered. Despite some hints that bipartisanship would somehow break out, the evidence does not support such an occurrence. Amity is not the spirit of the season; blood red partisan fury, unfortunately, is. Mike Johnson’s eagerness to adjourn the House of Representatives is so frequent that one is tempted to believe he would prefer the one-session popular in the 19th century. As for Donald Trump, he is not in a particularly good mood, so forget National Brotherhood Week. As a result, much does not get done, and Republicans seem ...

Socialism vs. Capitalism

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, “College students prefer socialism to capitalism.” Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet Union “wasn’t real socialism.” Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union “was about as remote from socialism as you could imagine.” Give me a break. The Soviets made private business illegal. If that’s not socialism, I’m not sure what is. “Socialism means abolishing private property and ... replacing it with some form of collective ...

Trump says Kirk’s murder changed his life

EXCLUSIVE — In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear. The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds gathering hours early amid music and pageantry. Local heroes, union leaders, elected officials and retired military officers cycled through as warmup speakers, firing up the audience between tracks like Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of ...