International Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is poised to dissolve the country’s Lower House in order to hold a snap general election. He needs a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Diet in order to revise the pacifist constitution General Douglas MacArthur imposed on Japan during the postwar U.S. occupation. Constitutional revision is needed […]

Black Lives Matter and Antifa In St. Louis, following a “not guilty” verdict of a police officer accused of murdering a black male, Black Lives Matter protesters hurled rocks at the mayor’s house, seriously injured three police officers, and surrounded and hit with bottles a Fox News reporter. An adjunct professor who made numerous jokes about […]

Hard left, Progressive setbacks In the face of new determination by Berkeley police and recently installed university chancellor Carol Christ to restore free speech rights to campus and town, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was able to deliver an unobstructed talk last night to a large audience on the university campus, a significant setback to the […]

Washington chaos follows Trump’s turn toward Democrats Responding to conservative backlash, President Trump this morning denied he had made a deal with Democratic leaders on DACA. But he hinted a further move toward the Democrats when he told Congressional leaders that the rich, whose invested savings are key to economic growth, may not get a […]

Wall Street Journal, Republicans attacked for thwarting U.S. ABM defense Angelo Codevilla has just denounced the Republican political establishment for sabotaging U.S. development of ABM technologies capable of defending against Russian and Chinese ICBMs. President Trump’s initial budget reduced fiscal 2017 missile defense spending by 4%, but after North Korean threats, Trump declared “I don’t […]