PA Pundits – International James Carafano James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. contributes posts at The Daily Signal. He is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn
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Andrew Sullivan writes after Barack Obama has himself commented on the dangers of wokeness: Take the biggest actual social change, hailed by liberals, of the last couple of decades: marriage equality. We did not spend our time calling out homophobia, attacking the churches, or describing our opponents as “deplorable.” We
The European EV experience of choosing renewable energy over fossil fuels has, so far, proved economically unsustainable. The Dog and Lemon Guide says that hybrids are “nice in theory, shame about the reality”. “Many of the sales of hybrids in America are to people who simply want to be able
While the execution of the monstrous Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should rightly be celebrated, it must never be forgotten that terrorism is a hydra-headed beast. Cut off one head, and a new one or dozen grow to take its place. So where to for ISIS, now their caliph has
Proponents of medical killing invariably couch their defence in terms of “safeguards”. This might seem plausible enough in theory – but practical experience is quite another matter. As practical experience shows, once the laws are passed and the Rubicon crossed, “safeguards” are very quickly watered down. In the Netherlands, for instance,
In 2015, Canada elected a substitute drama teacher, a self-admitted drug-user, a failed student of Engineering with zero accomplishments in his 40+ years to lead the country. While in office his penchant for repeatedly wearing blackface in his past and for dressing up in silly costumes while representing
If there’s one thing that’s obvious about the globalist left-elite, it’s that they never deign to live in the world of their own making. The plutocrats of Silicon Valley and Washington secure themselves in walled compounds far from the stench of human filth that’s overwhelming
Groucho Marx’s famous truism that “politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies” missed one key element: “and making things worse than they were”. In the case of climate change alarmism: much, much worse. The pigtailed ignoramus saint
As we have alluded to several times recently at The BFD, there are markedly different approaches to environmental issues which seem notably dependent on one’s political philosophy. For instance, the Klimate Kult is fixated on narcissistic public protest almost entirely dissociated from empirical reality, while offering no solutions other
Listening to the ABC on the radio last year, a couple of earnest, bog-standard lefties were discussing the Trump presidency and clutching their pearls. “He’s upsetting the established global order!” they wailed. That’s the whole damn point! I fumed to myself. If the American people had wanted
