On Oct. 7 of last year, Arab terrorists committed the worst atrocities against human beings in the Western world since the end of the Holocaust. In a precisely planned attack, Hamas killed roughly 1,200 Israeli–Jewish civilians, including in an attack on an Israeli “Peace Festival” near the border with Gaza. The terrorists were especially cruel and brutal to females. They raped dozens of women and girls of all ages. They killed some of them by shoving cruel instruments into their vaginas. They killed more by applying blow torches to their genitals. It’s hard to believe it really happened, but ..read more

The most significant homeless case in decades, according to some pundits, was heard by the Supreme Court on Monday. The decision in that case, Grants Pass v. Johnson, may determine how aggressive cities can be in breaking up homeless encampments and moving homeless people out of parks and other public spaces where they set up their tents and other shelters. The city of Grants Pass, Oregon, population 38,000, encountered 600 homeless on any given day. To deal with this problem, the city passed a law in 2013 that effectively banned public camping on city property. The law prohibited sleeping in ..read more

I bought some summer clothes, you know, shorts, T-shirts, and a lilo with a beer holder for the pool. I packed everything in a suitcase along with sunscreen and set off to the beach for the weekend, taking advantage of the high temperatures my country has been enjoying the last few days. As soon as I set foot on the sand, the thermometer plummeted. The sky has also turned a donkey-belly kind of gray. And a wind that in all likelihood comes from the land of ice caps in Al Gore documentaries has started blowing. Now I’m writing behind a misted-up window, watching the rain pour down furiously out ..read more

Ten days after Columbia University students decided to make national headlines by camping out on the colleges’ quad, they’ve managed to elicit hours’ worth of X debates about free speech rights and an incredibly lukewarm response from the Biden administration. The protests have put Democrats and the left-wing media in a tough spot — the kind of spot that results in scores of carefully written articles full of couched language that ChatGPT then reads. The result? The following 254-word paragraph that somehow manages to talk about the protests erupting on college campuses across the U.S. all whi ..read more

“For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation’s schools free from sex discrimination,” proclaimed U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on April 19. “These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.” According the federal Department of Education, the new rules clarify: “the steps a school must take to protect students, employees, and applicants from discrimination based on pregnancy or related condition ..read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden stuck close to the White House on Wednesday while House Speaker Mike Johnson ventured to Columbia University amid out-of-control protests that effectively shuttered university classrooms. In the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist massacre in Israel that left 1,200 dead, the progressive Left has decided to protest the Jewish state, not Hamas. The movement has spread to campuses and cities across America. So when Johnson showed up, protesters booed and shouted, “We can’t hear you.” They even told the Louisiana Republican, “Mike, you suck.” As the adult in New Yor ..read more

I grew up in the 1960s as an Orthodox Jew in a semi-parochial community in Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood tucked between Flatbush, Flatlands, and Canarsie. Although very few of our neighbors were Orthodox, the community must have been 95 percent Jewish. Kathy was the one Catholic kid on the block. Hers was the only window in a half-mile radius that did not display a menorah kindling in December. Since she was the only non-Jew in our world, we assumed all non-Jews were Catholic. Protestants were exotic. There were Italian Catholics, Irish Catholics, Polish Catholics, and Kathy. All we knew ..read more

House Speaker Mike Johnson has gone from zero to Mitch McConnell in record time. The “conservative firebrand” who was elected last Oct. 25 to lead Republicans to greater glory now resembles his depleted Senate counterpart. With sickening speed, Johnson has mastered McConnell’s art of giving Democrats what they want while getting nothing in return. President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning signed a foreign aid bill that crawled out of Johnson’s GOP House. The $95 billion measure features $61 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel, and $8 billion for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific. The Jer ..read more

In his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.” Washington is rolling in his grave right now at Mount Vernon. READ MORE from Josh Hammer: Hold Obama–Biden Foreign Policy Responsible for Iran’s Unprecedented Attack on Israel Jews are so “afraid” at Columbia Univers ..read more

WASHINGTON — I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged the former president with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has pleaded not guilty. The case began with Michael Cohen, Trump’s onetime fixer, making a “hush money” payment to the former adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels to keep her from revealing information about an apparent sexual relationship with Trump in 2006. Bragg used the fact that Cohen paid $130,000 to Dani ..read more