Yesterday, the Federal Reserve confirmed that its chairman, Jerome Powell, had earlier this year been duped into a conversation about the economy by a Russian comedic duo pretending to be Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The fake interview, which a Fed spokesman gamely tried to dismiss as “a friendly conversation,” ended up being broadcast on Russian TV. And from there, as the BBC reports, “Video now circulating on the internet shows Mr. Powell describing a sharp slowdown in growth in the U.S., following the bank’s efforts to rein in price rises.”

Anytime a Fed chairman so much as sneezes, markets move, domestic and international economies recalibrate themselves, and huge sums of money are won and lost. So the news of Powell’s gullibility, and his grimly pessimistic outlook, couldn’t have…

Sudan is no stranger to being torn apart by war and destruction. Since its inception as an independent country in 1956, it has seen, according to The Wall Street Journal, “17 attempted coups (six successful), two civil wars and a genocidal conflict in Darfur.” And yet, as with Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, and other colossal failures to establish a friendly democracy, the U.S. also tried and has now failed in Sudan.

From a larger geopolitical standpoint, Sudan is a resource-rich country and has attracted the attention of America’s bitter enemies. Russia looks to Sudan and other African countries to employ its mercenaries. China and many Middle Eastern countries are looking to cash in on Sudan’s oil and mineral reserves. The added benefit to this deliberate rejection of U.S. influence is…

“Marriage is … in its origin a contract of natural law. … It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.” —Justice Joseph Story (1833)

It must be spring!

Rainbow-colored virtue-signaling yard signs are sprouting up in front of some homes in wealthy suburbs, an indication they are occupied by affluent “white privilege” Democrats. Many of these leftist protagonists are inheritance welfare liberals, the effluent of generational wealth and privilege, who choose to live in the safety and comfort of suburbia, with their enclaves of clubs and finer eating establishments.

These “truly enlightened” Demo elitists harbor fear of and contempt for grassroots Americans, in part because they have little social intersection with those…