Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Kevin Lamarque, Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) spoke out on Monday after Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R.,
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Justification for Appearing at a White-Nationalist Conference Is Preposterous
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epresentative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican from Georgia, spoke at a conference of white nationalists on Friday. Accusations of bigotry are often casually and unfairly hurled about by the media and the Left, but Nick
Biden Claims Republicans Are Trying to Keep Black Americans’ Votes ‘From Even Counting’
President Joe Biden at a Black History Month celebration event at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 28, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden on Monday claimed Republicans are trying to figure out how to keep black Americans’ votes “from
Missing the Point on SWIFT Sanctions
What President Biden would rather leave unsaid are the reasons why we can’t fully cut Russia off from the system that makes global commerce go. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen the news broke Saturday night that the Biden administration and
Snake Island Border Guards Who Told Russian Warship to ‘Go F*** Yourself’ Are Alive, Ukrainian Navy Says
A Russian warship at sunset ahead of the Navy Day parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, July 27, 2019. (Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters) The Ukrainian border guards initially presumed to have been killed in action on Snake Island, a
Normalcy in New York, until Putin Nukes Us
‘The science’ has suddenly changed, so kids can go unmasked. And war in Ukraine has distracted us. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D itching the Covid masks at school and starting 1950s-style air-raid drills wasn’t my idea of a return to normalcy,
Climate-Change Policy: the Gift (to Putin) That Keeps On Giving
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow, Russia, February 15, 2022. (Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Pool via Reuters) The week of February 21: the need to reconnect energy policy with geopolitical reality, antitrust,
Russian Troops Enter Ukraine’s Second-Largest City
A Ukrainian serviceman reacts while holding a weapon in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. (Maksim Levin/Reuters) Russian forces entered Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, before dawn on Sunday, engaging in urban combat and blowing up a gas pipeline in the city.
The Focus on ‘Green’ Energy Has Left the West Increasingly Dependent on Russian Energy
And Russia has played a role, exploiting social media to disparage the use of natural gas and fossil fuels. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he U.S. is now less energy-independent than it was a year ago and thus less able to
The Putin-Puppet Slander against Mike Pompeo
Far from ‘praising’ Russia’s strongman, the former secretary of state was warning that we underestimate him at our peril. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ike Pompeo is a West Point grad who served in Bavaria as an Army officer along the
Trump Blames Biden’s Weakness for Emboldening Russia, Sounds Alarm on Domestic Decline
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., February 26, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday night, former president Donald Trump argued that President Biden is to blame for
Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll, DeSantis Takes Second
Then-president Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus response during a meeting with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Donald Trump won the Conservative Political Action Conference
Zelensky Announces Talks with Russia as Putin Ups Nuclear Saber-Rattling
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky examines weapons as he attends tactical military exercises at a training ground in the Rivne Region, Ukraine, February 16, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters) Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that a Ukrainian delegation
To Win the Second Cold War, Study the First
The story of how America outcompeted the Soviet Union can help U.S. strategists do the same to China and Russia now. The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today, by Hal Brands (Yale University Press.
The Free State of Florida Is Also Safe
‘Defund the Police’ was another mistake that Florida didn’t make. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C rime is skyrocketing across the country — but not in Florida. After the Covid-19 pandemic started and the George Floyd killing led to riots in one