“Major Strasser’s been shot!  Round up the usual suspects,” so said the character Captain Louis Renault, the French Prefect of Police in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, portrayed by actor Claude Reins in the classic Hollywood film of the same name, Casablanca.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the board appealed an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that said the board could not authorize a charter contract with St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School solely because the school is religious.

As people talk about the issues of depopulation, they look to government programs to solve the issue. This is something I don’t like just on principle, but I’ll admit that there are times such programs might be beneficial.

It’s gaslighting for The New York Times to try to paint Larry David’s essay as anything but one that equates Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. – Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time (1967)The annual Earth Day will occur on April 22.

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 22, 2025 Trump might lose this legal fight, and there are better ways to reduce subsidies to schools. When President Trump targets an institution, he escalates if he meets resistance. So it goes for Harvard University, which dared to oppose his policy demands in return for federal funds and now could lose...

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – April 22, 2025 Parents in deep-blue Montgomery County, Md., want the right to opt their kids out of lessons, beginning in pre-K, involving ‘LGBTQ-inclusive’ storybooks. The Supreme Court’s argument this morning in Mahmoud v. Taylor dramatically illustrated the extremism of the defenders of woke education in general and of the school board in deep-blue Montgomery County,...

They now encompass tariffs, age, abundance, and commitment to resistance. Back in the good old days of Democratic discord—say, four months ago—the party seemed divided along one primary fault line: those who criticized the prominence it gave to social and cultural issues, and those who didn’t. Today, the divisions are many and varied, though a number are a good deal...

Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the line of not being too offensive.