Abraham Lincoln had a ready rejoinder for wartime critics who accused him of shredding the Constitution. To the contrary, said Lincoln; confronted with domestic rebellion he was willing to temporarily suspend part of the nation’s organic law in order to preserve the entirety, and the nation with it. “Often a limb must be amputated to
REVIEW: ‘Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires’ by David Chaffetz We tend to forget now, but the Silk Road, as a kind of artery between great civilizations, dominated the world’s destiny for much of humankind’s collective experience. And, of course, the world has largely remembered the region from the perspective
Nearly half of the world’s population is experiencing an election this year, which in some respects makes 2024 the most important year yet for global democracy. Since President Biden believes the world has “emerged anew in the great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy,” 2024 should be a banner year for the
DCCC, House Majority PAC falsely accuse six Republicans of voting to throw abortion doctors in jail Pro-abortion protesters in front of the Supreme Court / Getty Images As they work to take back the House in November, Democrats are accusing Republicans of voting for legislation that would “make abortion a crime and punish doctors with
The Teamsters’ choice this week not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris has Democrats worried their candidate is losing support among white working-class voters, Politico reported. A pro-Harris union official called the lack of endorsement a “red flag,” recalling how former Republican president Donald Trump outperformed expectations among union members in 2016, defeating Hillary Clinton.
President Joe Biden on Friday opened his first cabinet meeting in nearly a year by giving the floor to Dr. Jill Biden. “We’re grateful, Jill is here today. You heard that clapping, it wasn’t for me,” Biden said at the start of the meeting, before handing the floor to his wife to discuss a White
The Biden-Harris administration violated its own self-imposed scientific integrity rules when it blocked a major natural gas project off the coast of Louisiana earlier this year, a government watchdog group alleged in a complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. While the Trump administration approved the Delfin LNG project in 2017, the Biden-Harris administration stonewalled