Category: Opinions

O nce every four days. That’s how often the Obama administration attacks a target with a drone. Pilots in the United States control the unmanned aerial vehicles launched in Afghanistan. The federal government is expanding its use of drones to the U.S. for purported surveillance purposes. Recent polls show that the majority of Americans support...

Give a speech. It should be a short response to the preceding 75-minute address, which you watched in real-time, knowing almost nothing about its contents beforehand. The entire nation will watch, or at least those who haven’t switched back to college basketball. Don’t mess it up, or it could wreck your career. That was first-term...

A nurse couldn’t ascertain what caused the scratches on the patient’s hip — the adults restraining him from cutting himself with a shard of glass, or the shard itself. On another day, a young woman attacked one of her peers for “flipping her off” and “calling her a b****.” When a staff member intervened, she...

Emma Watson should be this year’s commencement speaker. We’d get two people for the price of one: a famous actress and, more importantly, Hermione Granger. It’s like inviting Dr. Jekyll, if he were drop-dead gorgeous, and if Mr. Hyde were my magical dream woman. Ms. Watson also fits perfectly with the values of Hillsdale College....

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel performed poorly in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Committee on Armed Services last week. But the Republican Party performed worse, demanding the secretary of defense nominee adhere to a failed foreign policy strategy. The questions asked by the Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee revealed a party committed...