By S. T. Karnick President Donald Trump has pushed colleges and universities across the country into severe consternation and distress with his threats to cut their federal funding and revoke their tax-exempt status. The president cites extensive civil rights violations, such as failures to protect students, staff, and visitors from antisemitic disruptions and their refusal to…
Thursday was a stunning day in the Vatican and outside in St. Peter’s Square as the Papal Conclave came to agreement on their choice for their next leader, 69-year-old native Chicagoan Cardinal Robert Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV. Advertisement The massive crowds outside the Sistine Chapel cheered as the white smoke wafted into the air, signifying…
The 2026 midterm elections may feel a ways off, but the race for Georgia’s Senate seat is already heating up — and it could be one of the most pivotal contests of the cycle. With a razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. Senate and Democrats eyeing every opportunity to flip a seat, Georgia is emerging…
President Donald Trump caused a bit of a stir Thursday morning when, following his announcement of a major trade deal with the U.K., he took questions from reporters and, in the process, announced that he would be withdrawing the nomination of “Eagle” Ed Martin to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Advertisement…
The Great Land’s new Republican at-large Congressman, Nick Begich III, is proving to be everything his predecessor was not. Chief among the things he is is a tireless advocate for Alaska, and now we see he has scored another win for the Great Land. Advertisement But there’s a catch. (There’s always a catch.) Alaska has,…
To paraphrase something my colleague Susie Moore stated in an earlier piece about the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals providing much-needed guidance to lower courts on a miniscule group of the barrage of cases against President Trump and his administration, we continue to follow the saga of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Readers likely…
“Be careful what you wish for” is something I routinely think when mulling over political strategy. Whenever you want a certain politician or appointee removed, you have to be sure that the replacement won’t be worse. For instance, when I was writing about LA County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, someone asked me,…
On Saturday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a significant ruling — a win for the Trump administration as it stayed the lower court’s injunctions, but what really made it of note was the court’s opinion, which set forth the framework that district courts should be adhering to in analyzing many of the cases…
After four years of former President Joe Biden throwing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish state under the bus at every opportunity in deference to Gazan Palestinians as the Israel-Hamas war raged on, Netanyahu was beyond relieved after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Advertisement Now, less than four months after…
On Thursday, the Indian government announced that it had killed one of the Islamic terrorists responsible for the murder of Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl. It took some time for this goblin to get what was coming to him, but there’s an old saying, “Fate knows every man’s number.” Well, for this guy, Fate finally came…