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Friday, June 2, 2017
Let’s Stop Acting as if the 2016 Campaign Were Still On
If you keep up with the news, you might think that the unpleasant and unedifying 2016 presidential campaign is still going on.
Still Whining...
Hillary Clinton may have made it into the Guinness Book of World Records Wednesday. In a rambling interview at a tech conference, Hillary blamed at least 18 things for her defeat last year, which must be some kind of record for the most excuses by a losing candidate.
The Kids Are Not All Right
More than 36 percent of teenaged girls in America are depressed or have suffered a recent major depressive episode, according to a study published in Translational Psychiatry.
How Do We Encourage Terrorism? Let Us Count the Ways
At least 80 victims were murdered in Kabul on Wednesday morning when a suspected car bomb blew up in a diplomatic area of the Afghan capital. As many as 400 people were wounded, most of them civilians.
Hillary Clinton — Endless Sore Loser
Attacks on President Donald Trump are commonplace — many depict him as this wildly bizarre, classless person occupying the Oval Office — but have critics fairly considered what a horror show a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been?
Au Revoir, Paris
President Trump has decided to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. Given the hysteria over his decision, you would think he just launched a nuclear war. Instead, he exposed how so much of the left’s agenda is meaningless virtue signaling.
Kathy Griffin Gets Her Comeuppance
How could Kathy Griffin think she didn’t cross a line with her Islamic State group-beheads-the-president imitation?
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Debunking the Arctic Death Spiral Myth
Even though record low Arctic ice is highly unlikely, a forecast that is a sure bet is that climate alarmists will let us know about how much the Arctic is melting.
Hillary Blames America First
In one of the great scenes in American cinema, Jake Blues (John Belushi) of the Blues Brothers, explains — at gunpoint — to his ex-fiancee (Carrie Fischer) why he left her at the altar.
Deadliest Cash: Planned Parenthood Reels in Record Profit
Want to make more for doing less? Ask Planned Parenthood how. The abortion giant is sitting on piles of cash according to their latest annual report — and not because they earned it! It was a record year for abortions and profits, but not much else.
Press Barking (Mad) Up the Wrong Tree
The American media are so obsessed with their own Russian collusion story that they can’t see the possibility of actual corruption right in front of their noses.
How Long Will NBA Fans Tolerate Trump-Bashing by Head Coaches?
The success of NBA San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich cannot be denied. In his professional career, the Popovich-led Spurs have won five championships.
Did Someone Say, ‘Have a Happy Memorial Day’?
Last weekend, while visiting the New Jersey shore, I heard an astonishing number of vacationing Americans — all well-intentioned, to be sure — greet their fellow vacationers with a cheerful “have a happy Memorial Day.” That cannot be right.
The Battle of Budget Ideas Rages On
Love it or hate it, the recently proposed 2018 federal budget is dead on arrival. Some say that’s because it’s unrealistic.
Buckley Captained Conservatism Before it Was Hijacked
In 1950, the year before William F. Buckley burst into the national conversation, the literary critic Lionel Trilling revealed why the nation was ripe for Buckley’s high-spirited romp through its political and cultural controversies.
What Price Separation From Europe?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has had enough of President Trump. Speaking last Sunday in a Munich beer hall, Merkel suggested that Europe may no longer be able to rely on the United States as a faithful ally and that the continent “really must take our fate into our own hands.”
Not Funny
“Comedian” Kathy Griffin has ignited a firestorm of revulsion and anger. She participated in a disgusting photo shoot in which she is featured holding the bloody, severed head of President Donald Trump.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
GOP Starts Plan Handling
It’s a good thing the House and Senate are out this week. Judging by the headlines, they’ll need their rest to navigate choppy waters of the health care repeal when they return. Like Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), who managed to hold the shakiest of coalitions together for a May 4 vote, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has his hands full juggling the personalities and agendas of 52 very different Republicans.
Does Vox Want Marines to Wear High Heels and Camouflage Rompers?
It takes a special kind of low life to smear the military on Memorial Day. And the folks who run the far-left website Vox are that kind of low life.