Day: January 26, 2025

Holocaust Remembrance Day: A town once inhabited by Nazis reconciles with the past

6:30 pm January 26, 2025

The pristine German college town of Tübingen flourishes today, in stark contrast to its dark past. The southwestern city of 90,000 was once home to Theodor Dannecker, a Nazi captain and one of the closest aides to Adolf Eichmann, known as the “architect of the Holocaust.” In 1933, the University of Tübingen, where many of the […]

Trump’s federal DEI purge puts hundreds on leave, nixes $420M in contracts

6:30 pm January 26, 2025

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s executive order terminating all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs has already sidelined 395 government bureaucrats, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital. Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed up by Elon Musk, wrote on X Friday that approximately $420 million in current/impending contracts, […]

The politics of enthusiasm, and how it matters in everyday life

6:30 pm January 26, 2025

It is, of course, impossible to see intangible things. But sometimes an intangible thing is so vibrant, so pronounced and so real that it is as though it can actually be seen. I had that experience. I was in Washington, D.C., for inaugural activities – and saw an intangible thing. This was enthusiasm. I saw the beginning […]

MSNBC, CNN, liberal media figures claim Trump’s immigration policies are racist, sowing ‘cruelty’ across US

6:30 pm January 26, 2025

Prominent Democrats and liberal media voices are suggesting that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign is an act of “cruelty” as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to arrest illegal immigrants in the early days of the new administration. ICE arrested a number of child sex offenders, as well as gang members and other criminals […]

Why are comedians trending toward Catholicism? One quirky comic offers a surprising explanation

5:30 pm January 26, 2025

Though he may be covered in tattoos from head to toe — quite literally — the only thing more obvious than comedian Shayne Smith’s body art lately might be his newfound Catholicism. And the former motorcycle gang member is certainly in good company. Jim Gaffigan, Kevin James, Stephen Colbert, Tom Leopold, Russell Brand, and Rob […]