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By any accounting, Tuesday’s State of the Union was short on talk of foreign policy. President Biden made scant reference to America’s role in the world, absent a brief but cadenced assertion of commitments to “the most basic of principles;” namely, “sovereignty,” life “free of tyranny,” and “the defense of democracy.” About an hour in, the address showcased Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington, but reference to American material support came only in passing assurance of “as long as it takes.” This stands in stark contrast to last year’s address, delivered during the opening weeks of Russia’s invasion, when President...

Home-schoolers represent the only authentically radical social movement in the United States (Occupy Wall Street was a fashion statement) and so they must be suppressed, as a malevolent committee of leftist academics and union bosses under the direction of Governor Dannel Malloy is preparing to do in Connecticut, using the Sandy Hook massacre as a pretext. The ghouls invariably rush to the podium after every school massacre, issuing their insipid press releases before the bodies have even cooled, and normally they’re after your guns. But the Malloy gang is after your children. Malloy’s committee on the Newtown shootings is recommending...

Ziad Abu Tir senior Hamas Terrorist, and Brother of Mahmoud Abu Tir Hamas' Minister for Jerusalem (and sometimes Bozo impersonator-pictured left) affairs was killed in an Israeli Air strike. The air strike took place Monday morning as an Israeli air-to-ground rocket struck a car in the village of Abbasan, east of the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, killing at least five people, two of them terrorists. Ziad Abu Tir was a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad part part of the Hamas terrorist movement. The Air Strike "killed two birds with one stone" not only did it get a...

On September 17, 2002, Harvard President Larry Summers delivered his traditional remarks in honor of the beginning of the academic year. However, in an admittedly unprecedented fashion, Summers decided to come out against the burgeoning anti-Semitism among academic communities. Summers described himself as "Jewish, identified but hardly devout," and said that anti-Semitism had always been remote from his experience, adding that he had long been wary of those who raise the specter of anti-Semitism in response to any disagreement over Israel. He explained, however, that he felt forced to speak out publicly against anti-Semitism for the first time due to...