Seldom has a set of congressional hearings opened amid so much anticipation and, at the same time, so little guarantee of success. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will hold the first of at least a
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Madeleine Albright had a lot to say about Putin — and she didn’t mince words
When Madeleine Albright met Russian President Vladimir Putin more than 20 years ago as the U.S. secretary of state, she said he was trying to ingratiate himself to then-President Clinton — but Putin also “had a view of how things
South Korea Presidential Race Too Close to Call
South Korea’s presidential race was too close to call as votes were being counted, with an exit poll released minutes after polls closed Wednesday showing conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol with a lead of less than one percentage point. Yoon had
PUTIN’S TERROR Massive explosions rock Kyiv as air strikes hit city just hours after blast at rail station where thousands sheltered
UKRAINE has spent another night under siege with massive explosions rocking Kyiv. Fireballs erupted in the night sky above the Ukrainian capital as residents have woken up to once again to view the devastation. The horror bombardment in Kyiv came
The Democrats’ Never-Ending Supreme Court Hypocrisy
Democrats keep escalating the judicial nomination battles and then demand that the other side unilaterally disarm. Yesterday, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dick Durbin, told CNN’s State of the Union that he has “reached out to many Republicans,
McConnell, McCarthy Condemn Greene and Gosar’s Appearance at White Nationalist Event
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.,
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