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3 days ago | 
dailysignal.com | Peter Parisi
The fourth time was the charm for Faizan Zaki, of Allen, Texas, who last Thursday night won the 100th National Spelling Bee. The word that won it for the 13-year-old—who was last year’s runner-up and who had participated twice before that—was eclaircissement, which he spelled without the slightest hesitation.
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1 week ago | 
dailysignal.com | Peter Parisi
In Las Vegas on Monday, the American Music Awards held its annual ceremony and presented its trophies, but to paraphrase Sin City’s tourism slogan: “What happened in Vegas should stay in Vegas.” Following the lead of the Grammys back in February, the AMAs treated Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” album as though it were country music—which it isn’t—and handed her trophies for favorite female country artist and favorite country album.
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1 month ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Peter Parisi
OPINION: The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation presented its 2025 Profile in Courage Award on Sunday night.
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1 month ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Peter Parisi
- OPINION: The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation will award its annual Profile in Courage Award on May 4 to a politician or other public figure who has demonstrated extraordinary political courage, especially when doing so subjects him or her to public criticism from those with whom they are ordinarily allied. If the deadline for nominations hadn’t passed for this year’s awards, four congressional Democrats would have fit that description.
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2 months ago | 
dailysignal.com | Peter Parisi
If there were any lingering doubts about the unabashedly pro-transgender bias of the liberal media, they were demolished Thursday by the marked contrast between a feature story and a news article, both in The Washington Post, on two separate cases of trans athletes competing in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.At 6 a.m. Thursday morning, The Post published online a 2,238-word magnum opus, headlined “A trans girl was banned from her track team.
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2 months ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Peter Parisi
OPINION: President Trump 1, Maine Gov. Janet Mills 0 (F). With the 2025 Major League Baseball season having begun Thursday, that seemed like an apt way to sum up the University of Maine System’s capitulation two weeks ago to common sense.
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2 months ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Peter Parisi
- OPINION: Public service has proven extraordinarily lucrative for many elected and appointed public figures. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Joe Biden and his extended family, and former COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci come to mind. For conservative talk-radio titan Dan Bongino, not so much. It will be quite the opposite.
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2 months ago | 
heritage.org | Peter Parisi
It wasn’t exactly profundity on display when Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson declared earlier this month that “massive immigration and poor integration simply do not work.” To the contrary, it was a keen grasp of the obvious, but one that’s been lost to willful blindness on the part of President Biden and his hapless homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, who have in effect rung the dinner bell at our wide-open southwestern border and hollered the multilingual equivalent of...
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2 months ago | 
readlion.com | Sarah Holliday |Peter Parisi |Jacob Huebert |Kristen Eichamer
(The Washington Stand) – Three cases, three states, one crisis: men hijacking women’s sports—on the field and in the courts. Despite President Donald Trump’s executive order barring men from competing in female athletics, men continue to intrude. In fact, resistance to Trump’s emergency order emerged almost immediately, with some school districts publicly proclaiming their intentions to defy the order. This all came before the unanimous vote by Senate Democrats against safeguarding girls’ sports.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
dailysignal.com | Peter Parisi
“We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told President Donald Trump at a Feb. 21 gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House. But Mills, a Democrat, should be careful what she wishes for, because Trump wasn’t bluffing when he said Mills and Maine would be the big losers if she refused to comply with his Feb.
