WILLIAMS: Let’s limit federal spending
Some people have called for a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution as a means of reining in a big-spending Congress. That’s a misguided...
HART: Why the ‘memo’ matters and should scare everyone
We have grown an alphabet soup of powerful agencies like the FBI, DHS, NSA, DOJ, IRS, etc. We invest them with immense powers to...
A SHARP LIFE: Meal etiquette for travelers to ‘the happiest place on earth’
When you are at Disney World there are certain things that have to be done before you can officially say that you’ve been to...
ELDER: Had ‘news’ media done its job, Obama would not have become president
A photojournalist withheld publication of a 2005 photograph of a smiling then-Sen. Barack Obama with a beaming Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic, anti-white leader of...
SULLUM: Poland’s Holocaust bill is a hate speech ban
In Poland, as in several other European countries, it is a crime to deny the Holocaust. Soon, thanks to a bill that was approved...
CHAREN: Our capacity to understand a complicated world is limited
Early in George W. Bush’s first term, I was dining with a friend who didn’t agree with my worldview. He challenged my certitude, allowing...
CHAPMAN: Presidents have only modest control over the economy
Amid all the uncertainty about Donald Trump’s presidency, his admirers are sure of one thing: The economy is booming, and it’s because of him....
ESTRICH: The swamp overflows
On Jan. 19 at midnight, the swamp overflowed. Donald Trump was supposed to drain it. Instead he’s right in the middle, a heavyweight in...
WILLIAMS: Immigration lies and hypocrisy
President Donald Trump reportedly asked why the U.S. is “having all these people from shithole countries come here.” I think he could have used...
HART: State of the Disunion ‘Americans are Dreamers too’
During the Obama years, the State of the Union address was a divisive and arrogantly partisan lecture by a smooth-talking president. He lectured Supreme...