The real economic data on Biden’s ‘fiscally responsible ways’

President Joe Biden -- in his State of the Union address -- once again tried to present himself as a “fiscally responsible” president.“And, by the way, the first couple of years, we cut the deficit,” he said, according to the White House transcript of his speech.

Will Americans answer the call?

For those of you who do not know her, Bari Weiss is the journalist who had the courage and intellectual honesty not only to leave her gig as an opinion writer at The New York Times in 2020 but to pen a public resignation letter that exposed the oppressive culture there that prompted her departure.

The Left’s attack on Christianity

In a panic about Americans’ rejection of the Biden administration’s policies of open borders, rampant crime, runaway inflation and profligate spending on foreign wars, the Left has decided the real cause of the widespread dissatisfaction and demand for policies that place Americans first is...

Liberal elites against democracy

Iremember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid colonists fought for the then-novel concept of democratic selfgovernment.

The Left-Right divide is unbridgeable

Millions of Americans, depressed by the ideological divide in America, harbor a wish that something or someone can bridge this divide. This wish is fantasy. The divide is unbridgeable. One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will lead to weight loss.

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.