Embryo ruling embodies America’s legal heritage

Leftists have spent much of the past week up in arms about a recent ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court.At first blush, it is curious that a state supreme court case would engender so much vitriol and bellyaching.

Congress appropriated 3 times as much for Ukraine as for the U.S. border

From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection.Congress approved approximately $113.

Hancock Pool needs attention

To the editor: This is an open letter to our town manager.Dear Mr. deGraffenried: I’m one of many who are concerned about the management and maintenance of the Hancock Park Free-Flow Pool.

Getting away with murder

Russian political activist and dissident Alexei Navalny died Feb. 16 in a Siberian prison camp, where he was serving a 30 year sentence for what most observers agree were specious, purely politically motivated convictions.

The Left and chaos

It is impossible to understand what is happening to America -- and to the rest of the West -- without understanding the most dynamic ideology of the last hundred years: leftism.

Trump has the very best enemies

On the one hand, Donald Trump, the former and perhaps future president of the United States, seems uniquely hapless.

Is Tucker Carlson right about our cities?

American journalist Tucker Carlson was interviewed as part of the World Government Summit in Dubai last week, and if people were outraged by his recent interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, they were likely apoplectic after his remarks in Dubai about America’s cities: “[W]hat was...

Guilt-tripping our way to self-destruction

Everywhere we turn, the country looks like it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn than in educating our children.

Two ‘national anthems’ at Super Bowl

On Sunday, at the most widely viewed sporting event in America -- the Super Bowl -- the National Football League featured the singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the song first known as the “Negro national anthem” and now known as the “black national anthem.

Weakness breeds aggression

EDITOR’S NOTE: Josh Hammer is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Ben Shapiro. Three American soldiers died recently at the hands of an Iranian proxy group that used a drone to strike an American base in Jordan.