As we still digest how in the world a random 20-year-old, armed with a high-powered rifle, could have walked up within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally, climbed onto a rooftop, in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up and fired multiple rounds, nearly assassinating a former U.S. president. And while the shooter,...
Donald J. Trump is different. His close brush with death last Saturday has changed him. As he walked into the Finserv Forum on Monday night, the first night of the GOP convention in Milwaukee, the former president was quite clearly moved by the roar of the crowd; he looked on the verge of tears. As...
After 28 days of witness testimony, lawyers for New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez rested their case the day before the 4th of July holiday weekend. Menendez notably abstained from taking the stand, stating the government “failed to prove every aspect” of its case. However, less than two weeks later, on July 16, 2024, the...
In his spiritual autobiography “Confessions,” St. Augustine of Hippo wrote that “evilis nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.” In his later work “The Enchiridion,” he observed that God, who is supremely good, can bring good even out of evil. I recalled these timeless thoughts on the nature of evil and...
If the Trump assassination attempt last Saturday wasn’t shocking enough, the revelation that the Department of Homeland Security had learned of an Iranian plot to kill Trump weeks earlier is even more startling. According to a U.S. national security official, in June 2024, the Trump campaign was notified of this assassination plot by the Iranian...
On a recent flight to one of the many conferences that populate the summer calendar, I watched “One Life,” a movie about Sir Nicholas “Nicky” Winton, a young London stockbroker who, in the months leading up to the start of World War II, embarked on a mission to rescue 669 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied...
“He’s kind.” Wait. What? Senator JD Vance is “kind?” That is what my guest—podcaster and one of the most influential Republican women in America, Mary Katharine Ham—told me about Vance Wednesday morning. (Her podcast, co-hosted with Vic Matus, “Getting Hammered” is ajoy to listen to.) I first interviewed Senator Vance in 2016 when his book...
When a 20-year-old shooter managed to lie-in-wait for Trump at his July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, injuring the now GOP nominee for president, killing one rally goer and seriously injuring two others, many suggested that it was “inevitable.” Why? As I describe in my new book,“Fear Itself: Exposing the Left’s Mind-Killing Agenda,” the left’s...
There was much buzz as Teamsters president Sean O’Brien did something unprecedented – he took the stage at the Republican National Convention, saying, “It’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention.” While unusual, it maybe shouldn’t be unexpected. The Democrats have completely abandoned the middle...
In the immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, we were assured that we would see a kinder, and gentler version of the left. Less than a week later, the wheels are already falling off the unity-mobile. On Tuesday, Joe Biden told the NAACP that Trump and Republicans want...
