Sonya Douglass Horsford, the wife of Rep. Steven Horsford, described her disappointment with her husband on Twitter for deciding to run for reelection after he revealed two years ago that had a decade-long affair with a former Senate intern. Mrs. Horsford said she has remained silent for almost two years. She wanted to say she…Continue Reading
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson vehemently rejected accusations of leniency toward child pornography offenders, telling senators Tuesday that she was following Congress’ instructions when she habitually delivered sentences well below what guidelines suggested. Confronted with one case in which she issued a three-month sentence to an 18-year-old man who had a large cache of videos and…Continue Reading
Republicans accused Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee of hiding documents from them during the confirmation hearing Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson related to her sentencing of felons convicted of child porn crimes. They say she has been weak on defendants in child pornography cases. Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, said…Continue Reading
In Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, two weak aristocracies clash. U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Yes, as promised, she would be the first black woman appointed to the…Continue Reading
The enemy—especially his foot soldiers—are not monsters. It behooves us never to forget that as we keep doing so, war after war. “Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won’t breed it out of us,” William James wrote in his 1910 essay “The Moral Equivalent of…Continue Reading
Biden’s policies may well precipitate a once-in-a-century political reversal. Ironically, President Joe Biden’s post-election progressive turn seemed to inspire many people to reject far-left policies. Who would have guessed on the eve of Biden’s inauguration that, one year later, parents across the country would attend local school-board meetings to challenge critical race theory? Or that, sensing…Continue Reading
Mark Bauerlein chronicles the decline of a generation too far gone to be saved.The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults, by Mark Bauerlein, (Regnery Gateway: 2022), 256 pages.Complaining about the youth of today is an ancient pastime. The Roman poet Horace (first century B.C.) wrote in his Odes:Our sires’ age was…Continue Reading
In late February, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Inna Vdovichenko, a staffer in the Odessa office of the Jewish humanitarian organization JDC, was sitting in Natalia Berezhnaya’s home when an air raid alert began. Sirens blared. For Vdovichenko, who had come over to keep Berezhnaya company and to see if she needed food or…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said new forms of digital money such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins present risks to the U.S. financial system and will require new rules to protect consumers. Powell, speaking Wednesday on a panel organized by the Bank for International Settlements, a global organization of central bankers, also said…Continue Reading
NurPhoto / Contributor via GettyStarlink, a satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and promising to offer broadband internet speeds, announced a price increase on both the hardware required to run the service and the monthly subscription fee, citing inflation.The Starlink kit, as the hardware is called, will now cost $549, a $50 increase.…Continue Reading
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