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As a chorus of prominent Fox News women have gone public defending Roger Ailes against the wave of sexual-harassment allegations sparked by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit, the network’s biggest star, Megyn Kelly, has been conspicuously silent… According to two sources briefed on parent company 21st Century Fox’s outside probe of the Fox… Read more.
I have been utterly stupefied lately by voters expressing remorse after getting exactly what they voted for. Not least because it was plain to see in each case what the fallout would be. Cases in point: Greek voters buying the Syriza promise that they could have their euro and spend it too with respect to… Read more.
On June 16, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published a damning report on state-sponsored doping among Russian Track and Field athletes. On June 18, a month ago today, I published “Track Officials Ban Russians from Rio Olympics for Doping,” in which I argued that athletes in other sports had to be doping too. ______________________ I suspect… Read more.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport Saturday morning and declared the attempted coup against his government to be a failure, but also a ‘gift from God…’ He vowed to ‘clean up’ the armed forces and ‘eradicate’ those who had operated aerial forces against his government. As of Saturday morning, nearly 3,000… Read more.
The vicious Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice that killed at least 84 people was an act of terrorism, France’s President Francois Hollande said early Friday. The driver, identified as a 31-year-old French Tunisian, crashed his truck into a crowd of people who were watching fireworks. He plowed the vehicle-turned-weapon forward for… Read more.
One of the many things that distress me about politics in America today is the extent to which erstwhile intelligent people spew out viral talking points as informed thought. This herd-like mentality was on full display yesterday. That’s when commentators across the political spectrum began parroting the same condemnation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader… Read more.
The U.S. will slow the pace of its troop drawdown in Afghanistan, leaving 8,400 troops there when President Barack Obama completes his term, Obama announced Wednesday in a blunt acknowledgment that America will remain entangled there despite his aspirations to end the war. In a statement at the White House, Obama said the security situation in… Read more.
Theresa May is set to become the UK’s next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader. The timing of the handover of power from David Cameron looks set to be after PM’s questions on Wednesday. Mrs Leadsom, who campaigned to leave the EU, said the UK needed… Read more.
In “Lone-Wolf Gunman Terrorizes Los Angeles,” November 5, 2013, I despaired not only that a lone gunman can wreak unspeakable terror, but also that there’s nothing anyone can do to stop such “lone wolves” from doing so. This has been borne out on far too many occasions, including just weeks ago in Orlando, where a lone… Read more.
Snipers shot and killed five police officers ‘ambush-style’ during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, according to Dallas police Friday. At least six other police officers and one civilian were also injured in the deadliest day for police in the U.S. since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said… Read more.
