I'm having a strong sense of déjà vu. Let's rewind the tape to 2008. My unit, the Second Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, had finally crushed al-Qaeda resistance in our battlespace. Suffering from immense losses in ...

Jimmy Kimmel deserves credit for frankness, if nothing else. In an interview over the weekend, the ABC late-night host said he doesn't care about losing Republican viewers. We're a long way from Johnny Carson, whose Tonight Show was a ...

Editor's Note: The following is the second in a series of excerpts adapted from Victor Davis Hanson's new book The Second World Wars. It appears here with permission. Starting wars is far easier than ending them. Since the Peloponnesian ...

Editor's Note: The Following is the first in a series of excerpts adapted from Victor Davis Hanson's new book The Second World Wars. It appears here with permission. Some 60 million people died in World War II. On average, 27,000 people ...

Dear Reader (please petition the Federal "News"letter Authority not to revoke my license), Even for someone who thinks the only difference between 2016 and 2017 is that in 2017 the universe decided to take the condom off, this has been a ...

Last week, as the grotesque Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault scandal burst into public view, I was struck by this tweet, from my friend Andrew Walker: So much cultural and personal hurt due to sexual sin. Maybe the church should see its sexual ethics ...

Diane Black's political problem - conservatives' political problem - is America's political problem: Tax cuts are popular, and spending cuts are not. Representative Black (R., Tenn.) has been chairman of the House ...

It's a sad sign of our times that the constitutionality of any given government action is now seen as a wholly secondary consideration, subordinate to politics and arguments about politics. And so it is with Donald Trump's necessary ...

As a purely legal question, free speech is in as good a position as it's ever been, thanks in no small part to the work of those Republican presidents and senators our friends on talk radio are always complaining about, saying they've ...

Dear Reader (please petition the Federal "News"letter Authority not to revoke my license), Even for someone who thinks the only difference between 2016 and 2017 is that in 2017 the universe decided to take the condom off, this has been a ...

Why don't the stories say: "President Trump Faithfully Executes Affordable Care Act"? In report after sky-is-falling report, the journalism wing of the media-Democrat complex castigates the president over his decision to - as ...

I knew the late Justice Antonin Scalia a little, and like millions of others, I was an avid fan of his jurisprudence, the great bulk of which he produced after I was no longer a law student, so much the worse for me. What do I have to do with it? ...

The vast majority of commentary about Donald Trump's tweets centers on Trump: What do they say about his state of mind? Do they signal a change in American policy? Will he follow through on his threats? Is he a master media manipulator or just ...

Donald Trump isn't exactly on a winning streak, but he is beating the NFL in a rout. The league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, signaled the beginning of a messy, divisive retreat with a memo stating, "Like many of our fans, we ...

Why can't we have nice things? That's the question, if not exactly the phrasing, so many conservatives are asking these days. Despite controlling the White House and both branches of Congress, the GOP can't get much done. Oh, House ...

If you follow free-speech controversies for any length of time, you'll understand two things about public opinion. First, an overwhelming percentage of Americans will declare their support for free speech. Second, a shocking percentage of ...

Almost a half-century ago, in 1968, the United States seemed to be falling apart. The Vietnam War, a bitter and close presidential election, antiwar protests, racial riots, political assassinations, terrorism, and a recession looming on the horizon ...

There are many horrifying things about President Donald Trump that I am prepared to believe, but the claim put forward by Linda Greenhouse in the New York Times - that he has loosened up the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate ...

For President Trump's so-called travel ban, October 10 was a big day after all. That did not seem a likely outcome when the Supreme Court removed the case from its docket, scrapping the oral arguments originally scheduled for Tuesday morning. ...

There's something that has always bothered me about the argument that commercial enterprises can't succeed if they "alienate half the audience." In the vast majority of cases, it's just wrong. America is an enormous ...