Someone must pay.

“Russiagate” isn’t really about Trump. It’s about the fact that with respect to deciding who should be president, a tiny cabal of political elites in very powerful positions arrogated to themselves the presumptive right and power to substitute their judgement ahead of the expressed will of the American people.

The legacies of two revolutions.

Though the American Declaration of Independence was published in 1776 and the Bastille was stormed 13 years later in 1789, on the scale of the grand sweep of history, the events are essentially concurrent. But there the similarity ends.

Lost forever.

These once revered organizations have devolved into predictable, boring, monolithically left-wing propaganda organs where agenda has taken the place of mission.

Our China problem.

Our dependence on Chinese manufacturing is a latter-day Sword of Damocles of our own making.

Selecting a new pope.

I’m off to Rome to cover, for the third time in 20 years, the ancient process of selecting a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.