Who was Brady, anyhow? We ask because of the incredible evidence “suggesting,” as the Wall Street Journal puts it, that the FBI withheld exculpatory information from General Michael Flynn when President Trump’s first national security adviser...
The bombshell in the interview with Vice President Biden Friday on “Morning Joe” may or may not bear on the accusation against him of sexual assault, newsworthy though they may be. Nor that he’s asked the Senate to look in the National Archives...
Vice President Biden failed this morning to put paid to the accusations by a former staffer in his office, Tara Reade, that decades ago he assaulted her sexually. Appearing on “Morning Joe,” Mr. Biden denied the claim unambiguously. He said he asked the Senate to open his files at the National Archive, where, he insisted, any complaint Ms. Reade says she filed would be. He refused, though, to sanction a similar search of his papers at the University of Delaware. So, there’s room for doubt.
The centenary that has just been marked of the San Remo Conference reminds us that, among other things, the statecraft that produced the State of Israel way predates the United Nations. It is a moment to grasp that in partitioning Palestine after...
New York Magazine is out with a well-articulated piece called “The Biden Trap.” It’s about the predicament of progressive women who want a member of their sex for vice president but are uncomfortable with the leading man for the top of the ticket. Joseph Biden has now been accused of such a serious act of sexual assault that the vice presidential candidacy has become “the stuff of feminist nightmares.”
It’s time to end the awkward legal endorsement of the Iran nuclear deal. That’s because the first so-called sunset clause built into the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action kicks in this Fall. That’s per the United Nations Security Coun...
Why doesn’t America test like South Korea? Keep the economy partially open like Sweden? Control behavior like Singapore? Keep tabs on everybody’s cellphones like Communist China? Nah. If we want to learn from others’ response to the pandemic, our b...
“If there were no United Nations we’d have to invent one” is an overused Turtle Bay cliche worth examining now, as the UN is MIA in the face of the worst global crisis since its founding 75 years ago. As a pandemic threatens the globe with loss...
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s riposte to Senator Mitch McConnell over the question of a bailout for New York has got to be one of the all-time classics of Democratic Party thinking. The governor, at one of his briefings, lit into the Senate majority leader over his suggestion that states that have mismanaged their budgets should consider bankruptcy. Mr. Cuomo boasted that New York pays more money to Washington than any other state. “Just give me my money back,” he exclaimed.
The decision of the Supreme Court to dodge the latest case on gun rights invites the question: Where is Mr. Bumble when we need him? The aptly named antagonist is the Charles Dickens character who, upon being told he was responsible for the actions of...
It looks like the Democratic line going into the election is going to be that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed America as a “failed state.” That, at least, is the argument emerging in the left-of-center press. The idea seems to be that the fu...
By EDWIN SCHINDLER, Special to the Sun
April 29, 2020
Blue State governors are up in arms about the prospects that the corona pandemic and their own mismanagement might force their states into bankruptcy. The political optics of their longstanding fiscal failures could be exposed, as well as their...
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
April 28, 2020
The Democrats are taking their stand on the coronavirus crisis in an untenable position. It is like building a defensive redoubt in a valley surrounded by hills in the hands of the enemy (like the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1955, as President Eisenhower warned them). Whether this is tactical stupidity by the president’s enemies or strategic genius by the president or — more likely — a bit of both, is not clear except to insiders.
Vice President Biden has chosen an opponent for the 2020 general election — and it’s not Donald Trump, but instead, of all people, an economics professor who died in 2006. “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” Mr. Biden declared...
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