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When disaster strikes, we're always inspired by images of human beings helping one another. But why? There are certain enemies we hold in common.
The "alt-right" is evil. White supremacism is evil. Neo-Nazism is evil.
So, Google is a leftist company. That's no surprise. All you'd have to do to verify that fact is watch the rotating Google doodles throughout the year.
One of the great myths about President Trump is that America's enemies would fear him because he is predictably unpredictable.
Richard Dawkins is no friend to conservatives. The atheist author has spent much of his life deriding Judaism and Christianity. But he's also smart enough to recognize that radical Islam is a greater threat to human life than Christianity or Judaism.
Expectations define behavior. The success of a marriage nearly always depends on the expectations of the parties going in.
This week, The New York Times dropped a potential bombshell: It alleged that Donald Trump Jr., then-Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with a Russian government-linked lawyer in order to hear potential dirt about Hillary Clinton. The media immediately declared victory — this was obviously the first step toward establishing the Trump-Russia collusion about which they have crowed for nearly a year.
It's tempting to view President Trump as the end of the American presidential tradition. It's difficult to imagine George Washington pondering a future president of the United States tweeting out memes of himself clotheslining a CNN-logoed enemy.
In 2014, I debated Seattle City Council member and avowed socialist Kshama Sawant. Sawant was one of the chief proponents of a city ordinance that would create a $15 minimum wage. Eventually, the city adopted a three-phase transition plan that would push minimum wage to $11 per hour, then $13 per hour, then $15 per hour.
It's a phrase we hear over and over on Twitter whenever someone criticizes morally troubling anti-leftist tactics used by members of the right. They say: "What are you, some sort of coward? What, are you worried about muh principles?"
Trump isn't destroying the media's credibility. They already destroyed their own credibility, thanks to their allegiance to President Barack Obama.
There are certain clarifying moments in political discourse; moments that demonstrate just where the various parties stand. Never has the gap been so obvious as this last week.
In 2013, the left went nuts over a rodeo clown.
You. Yes, you. You're a bigot. Are you a straight man who only wants to have sex with women? Are you a gay man who only wants to have sex with men? Are you a bisexual man who wants to have sex with people of both sexes but only if they are good-looking? Are you asexual? You're a bigot.
Mother's Day marks an awkward time of year for those on the hard left.
This week, an odd tweet appeared in my mentions from verified Twitter users — users prominent enough to be granted a blue check mark by Twitter itself. This one came courtesy of a rapper named Talib Kweli Greene.
On Saturday night, Samantha Bee hosted the much-ballyhooed "Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner." The dinner was retitled, of course, because President Trump wasn't enough of a rube to subject himself to three hours of barbs and put-downs by leftists who didn't vote for him and see him as a joke and disdain his voters.
For the past few months, whenever someone on the left says something particularly insane, conservatives immediately snark back, "This is why Trump won." To a certain extent, they're right: The palpable anger on the radicalized left that helped govern America into political polarization drove the Trump movement. Trump sits in the White House as a result.
Donald Trump won the presidency because he was seen as blunt and non-manipulative, as opposed to the robotic, incompetent Machiavellianism of Hillary Clinton — and because he demonstrated that he cared about the concerns of Americans who were sick of being called racist sexist bigot homophobes for not paying obeisance to the leftist cause du jour.
