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Friday, January 12, 2018
Pelosi’s Armageddon
Since the Trump tax cuts became law, hardly a day has gone by without companies announcing pay raises and bonuses for their workers.
The Women on Death’s Roe
Abortion may have taken 59 million lives since *Roe v. Wade*, but it’s created at least 118 million victims.
Oprah’s Distracting Golden Globes Lecture
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hosts the Golden Globes, may have provided the rocket fuel for Oprah Winfrey for President in 2020.
Why We’ve Let Actors Become Our Moral Guides
As a culture, we’ve elevated “authenticity” to a new form of moral authority. We look to our feelings for guidance.
Stop Scaremongering. The Press Is Freer Than It’s Ever Been
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a group alleging to promote press freedom and the rights of journalists, gave President Donald Trump the Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom Award in its Press Oppressors awards this week. The story was giddily retweeted across the liberal Twitterverse because, one imagines, people actually believe it.
Sofia Vergara, Frozen Embryos and Forced Procreation
The Supreme Court of Colorado will soon rule on whether a person has a constitutional right to not procreate. The dispute is between Drake Rooks and his ex-wife, Mandy Rooks. The couple were married in 2002.
Consensus and Complication
Prior to President Obama implementing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, he said he had no constitutional authority to act. He did it anyway and also a similar program for the parents of those children.
President Trump, Please Stay the Course
It would behoove President Trump to keep faith with his base and remain hardcore on his signature issue, immigration, both because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s the wisest political course.
Is ‘Fire and Fury’ Fizzling?
The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of Fire and Fury they had ordered was subtitled The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945. It’s a well-regarded 2009 volume by University of Toronto historian Randall Hansen, who is surely grateful for the unanticipated royalties.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Organization Behavior
The two prevailing narratives these days are — let me show you my shocked face — at the extremes. On the one hand we have the Left certain that Trump is unstable, mentally unfit for office and dangerous, with the over/under on when he will be removed from office via the 25th Amendment measured in weeks. On the other hand, we have Trump supporters certain that leftists have lost their collective minds for dwelling so much on it. Both are wrong.
Some Cold Facts
Remember when global warming meant the planet was supposed to, well, warm up? Temperatures would rise, and all manner of ecological calamity would ensue?
A Brilliant Performance
As the Russia collusion delusion melts away, the Left has adopted a new attack against President Trump. We have heard whispers for months, but the publication of Michael Wolff’s new book turned the rumors into a full-fledged media conspiracy.
The House’s Born Ultimatum
Like a lot of pregnant women, the young mom who visited Planned Parenthood in St. Paul last summer wasn’t sure she wanted to have the abortion. Already well into her second trimester, she was starting to have second thoughts about whether this was the right decision for her or her baby. But, pressured by doctors to go through with it, she agreed — giving her permission for them to start the painful, two-day procedure.
Where’s Hollywood’s Apology for Donating to the Clintons?
In the President Donald Trump era, Hollywood has become more political and less entertaining, while Washington, DC, has become more entertaining and less political. The theme of this year’s Golden Globes awards show was “Time’s Up,” the movement to salute the women who have come forward to tell their stories of sexual abuse, assault or harassment in the workplace.
How Merit-Based College Admissions Became So Unfair
During World War I, chemist James Conant was deeply involved in research on what was considered the worst imaginable weapon: poison gas.
Mr. President, Put Up That Wall
Of all the Judeo-Christian virtues, the one that utterly baffles me is humility. I mean, what is in it for me?
It Turns Out Bannon Was Trump’s Brain
In order to prove he doesn’t have dementia, as alleged in a recent book, President Trump called a meeting with congressional leaders on Tuesday — and requested that it be televised.
Trump Threatens to Deal Another Blow to the Palestinian Cause
President Trump set off another Twitter firestorm last week when he hinted that he may be considering cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinians.
Pelosi’s ‘Immoral, Ineffective and Expensive’ Argument
A wall is neither moral nor immoral any more than a baseball bat is moral or immoral. What matters is the purpose for which it is used.
Oprah: The Latest ‘Messiah’?
The ancient Greeks referred to the dramatic moment in some of their plays as “deus ex machina,” the god from the machine.