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Friday, May 18, 2018
The Media’s Bias Is Showing
On Wednesday, President Trump answered a sheriff’s question about the MS-13 gang. The president referred to the gang members as animals. The American political press swung into action to declare President Trump had called all immigrants animals.
The Leftist Duumvirate Is Subverting, Not Protecting, ‘Our Democracy’
It is increasingly clear that the Trump-hating holdovers from the Obama administration and their media enablers — together, the duumvirate — are not protecting “our democracy” but subverting it by fraudulently scandalizing and delegitimizing President Trump.
The Blessed Virgin Stormy Daniels?
Some people were scandalized when secular celebrities from Rihanna to Madonna dressed up in glitzy bishop hats and bejeweled crowns of crosses for the hot-ticket Metropolitan Museum of Art gala in Manhattan.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Before the Fact: Why Another Big Wildfire Season May Be on the Way
March and April have been wet again in California. This provides us some valuable clues as to what is coming down the road.
The Preferred Form of Populism
We hear a lot about “populism” these days. Conservatives often praise it, while liberals call it a threat to democracy.
It’s Now 1984 at the University of Michigan
Students at the University of Michigan, beware. If you say anything politically incorrect or out-of-line with the political and social orthodoxy on your campus, you may get a knock on your dorm room door from the university’s equivalent of the Thought Police and be forced into a reeducation camp. Or you may be suspended or thrown out of school, potentially damaging your educational prospects and your entire future professional career.
Religious Liberty: Believe Local, Act Global
The world’s worst actors got away with an awful lot when Barack Obama was president.
Making a Difference
I am pleased to share some great news with you, my friends! Late Tuesday afternoon the White House released a statement announcing President Trump’s intention to appoint three new members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The World Needs a Policeman, and There Is No Alternative to America
When George W. Bush ran for president in 2000, it was on a platform of lowering America’s international profile and not trying to solve all the world’s problems.
Why We Don’t Read Newspapers
I once did a weekly column for the Washington Post. It appeared on Mondays and was picked up in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, possibly Chicago and I believe Bull Snort, Georgia.
The Seattle Head Tax Is Idiotic
Companies don’t pay taxes. People ultimately pay taxes. Other cities should take note.
The Miraculous Image Rehabilitation of Former Republican Presidents
When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the media considered him a dangerous extremist.
The Irish Aren’t Red-Headed Mexicans
In an interview with NPR last Friday, Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly described the illegal aliens pouring across our border in the most gentle manner imaginable.
The Coarsening of Political Language
Here in Australia, “Question Time” has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in an effort to belittle those policies.
Fake Russian Ads Stoked Racial Tensions — Race-Hustling Democrats ‘Colluded’
President Donald Trump rejects the narrative that Russia wanted him to win. USA Today examined each of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by the Russian-based Internet Research Agency, the company that employed 12 of the 13 Russians indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for interfering with the 2016 election.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Homeland: Art Imitating Life
I have enjoyed every season of the TV series “Homeland.” Writers and producers surely anticipated Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election because season six featured the election of President Elizabeth Keane. The problem for the show’s writers became transforming President Keane into President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s Jerusalem Triumph
In the second century AD, Jewish rebels who had stunned the Romans and liberated a portion of Judea overstruck imperial coins with images and a message of their own, “Year One of the Redemption of Jerusalem.”
Gaza Border Battle
The violence along Israel’s border with Gaza is the worst it has been in years, since Israel’s last major war with Hamas. Predictably, left-wing politicians and media outlets are blaming Israel and the United States.
GOP Stays the Courts With Nominees
If all Donald Trump did with these four years was balance the courts, his presidency would still be a success. Lucky for us, he’s got his sights set on a lot more than that — and a pile of accomplishments to prove it. But in an age when more decisions are being snatched out of his hands and put in the courts’, this president understands there’s only one way to protect that progress: confirming men and women to the bench who respect and uphold the law.
Amazon Fights Back
Seattle is worried about the well-being of the poor and mentally ill people living there, so it’s going to drive businesses out of town.