![Nikki Haley gave a bad answer to an easy question: What caused the Civil War? She replied with a word-salad on freedom and the role of government while failing to mention the word “slavery” at all. We don’t need to dwell on why it was a bad answer. The Civil War is a complicated topic, but the […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/goldberg-haley-20240102.jpg?w=132 "Nikki Haley gave a bad answer to an easy question: What caused the Civil War? She replied with a word-salad on freedom and the role of government while failing to mention the word “slavery” at all. We don’t need to dwell on why it was a bad answer. The Civil War is a complicated topic, but the […]")
Jonah Goldberg: Nikki Haley’s slavery gaffe is a rare misstep for a good politician
Nikki Haley gave a bad answer to an easy question: What caused the Civil War? She replied...
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![Another year is closing, and with it comes some renewed optimism for a fresh start and some relief that we are leaving some sore spots behind. 2023 wasn’t an easy year for many of us. It was marked by war — in Ukraine and later in Gaza. With Hamas’ barbaric attack on innocent Jews in […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cupp-resolution-20231227.jpg?w=131 "Another year is closing, and with it comes some renewed optimism for a fresh start and some relief that we are leaving some sore spots behind. 2023 wasn’t an easy year for many of us. It was marked by war — in Ukraine and later in Gaza. With Hamas’ barbaric attack on innocent Jews in […]")
S.E. Cupp: New Year’s resolutions for what’s ahead in 2024
Another year is closing, and with it comes some renewed optimism for a fresh start...
![At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong – from the end of the world due to climate change, to the telephone is just a toy. (There is a story, probably apocryphal, that in 1876, the President of Western Union, William Orton, dismissed phones […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/thomas-annie-20231228-1.jpg?w=111 "At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong – from the end of the world due to climate change, to the telephone is just a toy. (There is a story, probably apocryphal, that in 1876, the President of Western Union, William Orton, dismissed phones […]")
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Cal Thomas: Looking back, looking forward
At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which...
![This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year that was. I got nothing. But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea — the horseshoe theory of political ideologies. The term is often attributed to French author Jean-Pierre Faye‘s 1996 book “Le Siècle des idéologies” (“the century of ideologies”), but the concept is much older. It basically holds that the extreme right (“fascism”) and extreme left (“communism”) bend toward each other like the ends of a horseshoe. While I’ve always thought totalitarian regimes — Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany — […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/bc-goldberg-20231226-GET-1.jpg?w=132 "This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year that was. I got nothing. But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea — the horseshoe theory of political ideologies. The term is often attributed to French author Jean-Pierre Faye‘s 1996 book “Le Siècle des idéologies” (“the century of ideologies”), but the concept is much older. It basically holds that the extreme right (“fascism”) and extreme left (“communism”) bend toward each other like the ends of a horseshoe. While I’ve always thought totalitarian regimes — Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany — […]")
Jonah Goldberg: 2023 was the year I started believing in the horseshoe theory of politics
This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year...
![The joke is told about a poll taker who asks about ignorance and apathy in the country. “I don’t know, and I don’t care,” says the respondent. The consequences of that attitude are playing out across America. There are two questions most reporters never seem to ask when it comes to mass demonstrations like the […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/thomas-classroom-20231221.jpg?w=132 "The joke is told about a poll taker who asks about ignorance and apathy in the country. “I don’t know, and I don’t care,” says the respondent. The consequences of that attitude are playing out across America. There are two questions most reporters never seem to ask when it comes to mass demonstrations like the […]")
Cal Thomas: Ignorance and apathy
The joke is told about a poll taker who asks about ignorance and apathy in...
![PARIS — US President Joe Biden isn’t alone in being mugged by reality and by Senate Republicans insisting that he reduce options for asylum seekers as a condition of further fueling the conflict in Ukraine with more cash. When people are fleeing foreign countries, you’d better have a good plan for when they arrive on […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/marsden-immigration-20231219.jpg?w=127 "PARIS — US President Joe Biden isn’t alone in being mugged by reality and by Senate Republicans insisting that he reduce options for asylum seekers as a condition of further fueling the conflict in Ukraine with more cash. When people are fleeing foreign countries, you’d better have a good plan for when they arrive on […]")
Rachel Marsden: Western leaders are panicking after setting off a ticking time bomb
PARIS — US President Joe Biden isn’t alone in being mugged by reality and by...
![We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the“root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets. Often, this call to examine root causes is simply a distraction that avoids coming up with solutions. Let’s not kid ourselves that the resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania for her refusal to unequivocally denounce genocide against Jews (though Liz Magill will stay on as interim president until a replacement is found and will also remain a tenured professor ) is going to solve anything so […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/thomas-antisemitism-20231214-2.jpg?w=132 "We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the“root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets. Often, this call to examine root causes is simply a distraction that avoids coming up with solutions. Let’s not kid ourselves that the resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania for her refusal to unequivocally denounce genocide against Jews (though Liz Magill will stay on as interim president until a replacement is found and will also remain a tenured professor ) is going to solve anything so […]")
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Cal Thomas: Root causes of lower learning
We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the“root causes” of everything, from...
![Some years ago, D. James Kennedy preached a Christmas sermon at his Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, that became his most requested message. It was titled “Merry Tifton” and it was a metaphor based on a popular television show in the’50s called “The Millionaire.” On that show, a wealthy man named John Beresford Tifton […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/thomas-christmas-star-20231221.jpg?w=132 "Some years ago, D. James Kennedy preached a Christmas sermon at his Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, that became his most requested message. It was titled “Merry Tifton” and it was a metaphor based on a popular television show in the’50s called “The Millionaire.” On that show, a wealthy man named John Beresford Tifton […]")
Cal Thomas: Merry Tifton
Some years ago, D. James Kennedy preached a Christmas sermon at his Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in...
![The good news is the bad news is wrong. The bad news? Harvard-Harris poll which found that 67% of 18- to 24-year-olds believe that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.” One piece of good news: The poll is pretty lousy, as Ilya Somin, author of “Democracy and Political Ignorance,” explained for Reason […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/goldberg-antisemitism-20231219.jpg?w=132 "The good news is the bad news is wrong. The bad news? Harvard-Harris poll which found that 67% of 18- to 24-year-olds believe that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.” One piece of good news: The poll is pretty lousy, as Ilya Somin, author of “Democracy and Political Ignorance,” explained for Reason […]")
Jonah Goldberg: The right’s antisemitism problem is well known. What about the left’s?
The good news is the bad news is wrong. The bad news? Harvard-Harris poll which found...
Allen: Americans say costly college degree not worth it
A Gallup poll released last summer found only a paltry 36% of Americans have confidence...