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Harrop: ‘The Golden Bachelor’: Fantasy or real?

"The Golden Bachelor" is a popular reality TV show. It opens with a handsome, impeccably groomed 72-year-old adjusting a bow tie. In the background we hear Cat Stevens singing "The Wind," a sharp hook into the boomer soul. The bachelor finally says: "I'm Gerry. Tonight is the first day of the ...

Robbins: Israel’s critics depart planet Earth

There is a famous scene in the movie classic "Annie Hall" in which protagonist Alvy Singer visits his girlfriend's family and encounters her somewhat untethered brother in a hallway. Singer listens as the brother rambles incoherently before politely taking his leave. "Right, well, I have to go ...

Erickson: Dear conservative movement

Black Lives Matter Chicago is sending out graphics of Hamas paratroopers with Palestinian flags claiming to support them. Hamas parachuted into a music festival in Israel and killed over 200. Progressive reporters at mainstream institutions like The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times ...

Barone: The gathering storm

Russia has been attacking Ukraine for 20 months now. Iran, through its terrorism partner Hamas, attacked Israel this weekend. China has been threatening to attack Taiwan. The world is beginning to look a lot like the 1930s, when Japan attacked and overran much of China, and Nazi Germany and ...

Charen: Hamas makes war on Israelis and Palestinians

Throughout Israel's 76-year conflict with the Palestinians, certain cliches — like condemnations of the "cycle of violence" — have calcified. Saturday's attacks on Israeli civilians betray their total bankruptcy. Israel did nothing to provoke this attack. There was no raid, no strike on ...

Stiehm: With Israel at war, our House is not in order

The world took a terrible turn for the worst this week. The terrorist attack that shocked Israel turned a night of dancing and revelry on a kibbutz into murder, blood and civilian hostage-taking. The usual code of war meant nothing in the coordinated air, sea and land assault. Women and ...

Robbins: Coddled by the Left and armed by Iran, Hamas stages a massacre

On Saturday morning, several thousand young Israelis were celebrating a Jewish holiday at an all-night music festival in southern Israel, a few miles from the border fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip. Shortly after sunrise, hundreds of Hamas operatives armed with machine guns and ...

Erickson: A leadership failure

President Joe Biden's administration is announcing the waiver of dozens of federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act, to build part of the border wall between the United States and Mexico. The president's Homeland Security Secretary says it is necessary due to a massive influx of ...

Napolitano: A Constitution the government evades

Six months ago, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants! Under the Constitution, that number should be ZERO. This revelation is supposed to give members of Congress comfort that the folks we have hired to protect the ...

De Rugy: ‘Good government’ is a two-way street

You've undoubtedly noticed how up-in-arms everyone becomes when the government is on the verge of shutting down. I've also noticed that the people who most loudly express their horror at the notion of a partial government closure seem totally comfortable with the fiscal wall we are barreling ...