Opinion

As China smiles on Burma, World Court issues ruling

Amid deepening political and economic ties between Burma and China, the Southeast Asian state is being fully integrated into Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. Read More.

Dems dream of turning Texas blue dashed — for now

Is Texas slowly turning blue? That was the question on many minds leading up to the special election to replace Republican John Zerwas as state representative for District 28. Read More.

The one Dem who could go toe-to-toe with Trump in a debate

Which member of this rather uninspiring pack of Democrats would be best suited to stand next to President Donald Trump on a general election debate dais? Read More.

Is John Bolton delivering Dems a nothingburger?

Did President Trump tell former National Security Advisor John Bolton that the release of aid money to Ukraine was contingent on then-newly elected president Zelensky opening an investigation into political rivals? Read More.

NFL's corporate culture of crime: Not so super

As a major professional sports league thoroughly stained with repeated criminal activity by its athletes, the NFL has decided to address its problem by donating money to causes that support… criminals. Read More.

Change looms over the abortion battle as Trump marches for life

It’s a new year, and the abortion battle rages on. Read More.

Impeachment: Emblem of the Left's anti-intellectual thinking

Success in politics has always required vision beyond the latest crisis and thinking beyond one’s own most extreme instincts. For Democrats and the Left, a striking inability to accomplish either fundamental task has headed them inexorably toward a ditch. Read More.

Could things get worse for Democrats? Here comes Hillary

In a party struggling to define itself nationally as it seeks a standard-bearer for its 2020 challenge to an incumbent President Donald Trump, the last thing Democrats need is more Hillary Clinton. Yet that is exactly what they will be getting. Read More.

Realignment: Poll data reveals a shift to the right

As the impeachment trial for President Donald J. Trump begins in earnest, one likely wonders how much damage has been done to the nation. Have we lost faith in the system? Read More.

Palladium shines as investors' gold

All the glitter is on gold, all the shine is on silver, and all the rust is on copper. Another metal is captivating investors everywhere, though – and that metal is palladium. Read More.

'Conservative'? Cato opposes outsourcing U.S. jobs as bigotry

If the mask had not already been completely lifted on the fictitious conservative standing of globalist free trade "libertarian" organizations such as the Cato Institute, a telling tweet this month has surely sealed the deal. Read More.

Heated warning from the Heartland: Election Day coming

Well, it finally happened. Heartlanders – from the mountains to the prairies – went all in on impeachment talk and spent a week praising Trump, condemning the Democrats, and repeating their vows for getting every red-blooded American to the polls. Read More.

Snow White Pelosi and the Seven Impeachment Dwarfs

Now that House Democrats are finally ready to hand over articles of impeachment to the Senate, it is merely the deck chairs on the tilting platform of the “Titanic” investigation that need to be straightened. Read More.

Three reasons Kim Jong-Un is feeling the heat

The killing of Qasem Soleimani by an American drone aircraft on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump as the Iranian general arrived in Baghdad to spur on Iran-backed Iraqi militia against the U.S. confronts Kim Jong-Un with serious problems. Read More.

Iran's brinksmanship crashes and burns with airliner it downed

An eagerly anticipated UN Security Council meeting came in the nervous aftermath of America’s targeted killing of Iranian terrorist kingpin Qasem Soleimani by an armed U.S. drone. Read More.