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Charen: Trump’s $83.3 million temper tantrum

In the wake of the eye-popping $83.3 million verdict against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, many commentators mocked Trump's bumbling lawyer, Alina Habba, and not without cause. The 39-year-old fashion model, er, attorney, who had never tried a defamation case before (and, in fact, was ...

Napolitano: The feds are buying our emails!

"The Framers ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men." — Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) While we are all consumed with Joe Biden's bumblings and Donald Trump's trials, the federal ...

Harrop: What presidents spend money on really matters

What matters is not just the sum by which presidents jack up the deficit. It's what the money is spent on. Franklin D. Roosevelt added more to the national debt by percentage than any other president. America needed that borrowing to dig itself out of the Great Depression and then win World War ...

Stiehm: The women driving Trump mad

Stick around to see Donald Trump rage against strong women, especially women of color like Nikki Haley. This intensifying trait is hurting him as the presumptive Republican nominee. Case in point: Haley placed second in the New Hampshire primary and vowed her campaign for president is "far ...

Robbins: A poisoned, poisonous UN agency in Gaza faces the music

It is Albert Einstein who is credited with observing that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." If that is so, it is finally coming to light that those who have defended the U.N.'s special agency for Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works ...

Erickson: The trick that dropped Atlanta crime

You have undoubtedly heard that crime is down in a lot of places. One trick often employed in places like San Francisco is not to report crimes. Shoplifting is no longer pursued, and employees of businesses can be fired for preventing shoplifting. So property theft crimes drop not because theft ...

Barone: DeSantis withdrawal paved the way for likely Trump-Biden rematch

What went wrong with Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign? You can list many arguable mistakes, as you can with any campaign, and you can add, as some reporters have, that the candidate was not likable or good at retail campaigning — which mostly reflected reporters' personal dislike of ...

Charen: Hamas’ useful idiots

We all saw it. A genocidal government launched a staggeringly savage massacre against civilians. Now, the International Court of Justice in the Hague has taken notice — but in a twist worthy of Kafka, the party in the dock is not the perpetrator but the victim. The decision by South Africa ...

De Rugy: Lessons from Javier Milei’s World Economic Forum address

In a thrilling address at the World Economic Forum, Javier Milei, President of Argentina, presented a robust defense of capitalism and a critical examination of all forms of collectivism. His speech, rich in historical context and economic analysis, offers some vital lessons that are ...

Harrop: US oil and clean energy both boom under Biden

Donald Trump recently warned that Joe Biden would lead us into World War II, a conflict that ended almost 80 years ago. Another world event he may not be current on is America's boom in oil production — never mind the green energy revolution. "We are going to drill, baby, drill," Trump said ...