President Trump’s coming collision with the United Nations could be something to behold. Later this month he’s due to chair the Security Council, where he may give the striped pants set a piece of his mind in respect of Iran. He’s barreling towar...
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
September 16, 2018
As rumors swirl about challenges to Theresa May, the British press has been dogging a politician with first-hand experience in the art of ousting a sitting prime minister — Michael Heseltine. He infamously defenestrated Margaret Thatcher. Will it b...
“Have you no sense of decency?” That question was put to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the Army hearings of 1954. It deserves to be put today to the Democratic Party warhorses seeking to derail President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court by using a secret letter from an unnamed accuser alleging the nominee committed some kind of sexual offense when he was a minor.
One of the most intriguing questions in respect of President Trump is why he was the only businessman to throw himself heart-and-soul into the race for the presidency. Americans, after all, are a people who celebrate capitalism. So why did the other...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certainly hit the John Kerry question out of the park. This occurred at a State Department briefing Friday, when a reporter asked about President Trump’s use of the word “illegal” to describe Mr. Kerry’s meetings with his Iranian counterpart. Mr. Pompeo said he would leave the legal determination to others, and then . . . whammo.
The report this morning that the Trump administration intends to close the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization suggests that a new realism is emerging in respect of the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reports that President...
The prospect that John Kerry is going to make a second run for the presidency is in the news. This is owing not only to a series of interviews in which he pointedly holds open the possibility that he may challenge President Trump in 2020. It also owes to the fact that his new book — “Every Day Is Extra,” an autobiography — gives only glancing coverage to the seminal event of his political career.
The most amazing feature of the hearings about to begin on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is how uncannily the issues echo the issues in the fight over Judge Robert Bork. When President Reagan nominated Bork to the Supreme Court, the judge was sitting on the same Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that Judge Kavanaugh sits on today. Bork’s confirmation was foiled by a notoriously demagogic attack led by . . .
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
September 13, 2018
The almost unnoticed fact in the latest Democratic assault on the Trump administration is that it is based entirely on charges of confusion, the circus, incoherence, and nastiness. These themes never have to be hammered very long before the faithful...
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
September 11, 2018
Almost the whole gang’s here. The hottest names in the news today make appearances in the new book by Ken Starr, the independent prosecutor who tried to topple President Bill Clinton. In addition to Bill, there’s Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Moni...
It appears I have in Washington a kindred spirit, who has discovered the tremendous power of anonymity. In today’s New York Times, someone claiming to work at the highest levels in the White House wrote a scathing critique of his (or her) boss...
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
September 11, 2018
What would Benjamin Disraeli do? And what would Britain’s great 19th-century Conservative prime minister, born in the Jewish faith, say to Frank Field, the veteran member of Parliament who resigned the Labor whip prior to the autumn session, over th...
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun
September 11, 2018
With Baghdad’s politics back in chaos, America needs to up the battle against Iran’s influence over Iraq. Last week angry protesters torched the Iranian consulate in Basra, the southern city in the heart of Iraq’s oil country. The protesters, mos...
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
September 9, 2018
Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism. Great Britain’s exit from the European Union. Presidentr Trump’s attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling...
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