Merz might not have meant this precisely, but in classic diplomatic language, a country that “looks to its own interest” is giving notice of the end of an alliance.

Going after nuns is politically dumb.

It’s time to award Trump the No-Bill Prize.

Jake Tapper should write a book

In fairness to Little Marco, this is the only decision that Steven Miller lets him make.

The only times I’ve ever heard the expression (on detective shows) it referred to murder.

First, you aren’t old. Because if you’re old, I’m old. QED. second, worth mentioning that we did get CJ Warren — second greatest Chief in U.S. history— out of Eisenhower, although E got sandbagged into doing it (instead of appointing Warren Associate Justice).

The Daily Mail has an accurate headline.

And the room Hegseth was in wasn’t air conditioned?

Or Wrestle Mania.

You say potato, I say extortion.

The first article of yours I ever recall reading, some decades ago, made the same point. It described how quickly immigrant families go from speaking no English to speaking both English and their native language to speaking only English. That article has shaped my thinking ever since.

Good thing foreign tourism isn’t a big thing in the U.S.

“I do not think that word means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya