Something funny happened when the Washington Free Beacon contacted the campaign of Trump whistleblower turned congressional candidate Eugene Vindman last week. Vindman, a 24-year Army veteran, says he “served our nation in combat.” A 2019 Daily Mail piece said he “has not seen combat.” The Free Beacon asked the campaign to explain the discrepancy. Vindman’s
As social studies teacher, Walz tells students everyone in China gets free rice (Mario Tama/Getty Images) As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which “everyone shares” and gets free
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey (Pa.) held a stake in a Chinese state oil company that the Pennsylvania treasury department blacklisted over its ties to Iran, according to financial disclosures. In 2014, Casey invested as much as $50,000 in Janus Flexible Bond A, a mutual fund that in turn held $10.8 million in the China National
REVIEW: ‘On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything’ by Nate Silver Nate Silver (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for AWXII) A couple of years after I graduated from college, concerned that my ability to understand philosophy was stagnating, I spent part of a year reading A Thousand Plateaus, the inscrutable magnum opus of French continental philosophers
David Ignatius is a veteran journalist, an opinion columnist for the Washington Post, where he has a long tenure and to which he provides a much-needed voice of sanity at a time when the paper seems to have lost its way. (See, for example, his column last fall making the case that Biden should not
An influential Washington, D.C., synagogue is facing backlash from furious congregants after its rabbi claimed Jews “need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris” in order to comply with “sacred texts.” Adas Israel, whose membership has included Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is one of the oldest and largest
In her first policy speech as the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris officially proposed her economic plan to address the high cost of living but failed to offer additional details on what economists have called her “Soviet” price control scheme. During the North Carolina rally, Harris said her price gouging plan—a phrase she mispronounced as