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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Parents: Prepare Your College Kids for Left-Wing Campus Bias
Do college students — and their parents — truly understand how thoroughly left-wing professors dominate the humanities side of academia?
A President Who Does Not Know What It Is to Know
It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about Donald Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.
Campus High Jinks and the First Amendment
Well, she did not show up. I am talking about Ann Coulter, the svelte conservative firebrand who was invited to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, and, inadvertently, to show the assembled coeds how a stylish blond dresses.
Potemkin Universities
College campuses still appear superficially to be quiet, well-landscaped refuges from the bustle of real life.
The Fear-Based Campaign to Control the Net
Public fear is an ally of big government. When fear sets in among the populace — often with encouragement from self-interested politicians — the result is usually an expansion of governmental power and a loss of individual rights.
The People vs. the Press
President Trump and I have something in common. We were both invited to last Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner and we declined.
The French Presidential Election Run-Off: What the Media Has Overlooked
Marine Le Pen, the French presidential candidate for the National Front (FN) party, speaks boldly of economic protectionism, stronger borders, leaving the Eurozone and returning to a national currency.
At the White House
Tuesday’s White House event, in the ornate Indian Treaty Room, honoring Israel on its 69th Independence Day was outstanding. Vice President Mike Pence gave a stirring tribute to our most loyal friend and ally, Israel.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Making Government Perform for Americans
Throughout the presidential campaign, Trump supporters were asked what drew them to their preferred candidate. Time and again, they pointed to his “outsider” status. Fed up with conventional politicians, they decided to take a chance on someone different — someone likely to shake things up.
GOP Hangs Health Wanted Sign
The fence is a crowded place on Capitol Hill. While Republicans desperately try to finish the seven-year job of replacing Obamacare, the “undecideds” are making life difficult for House leaders. Now that the House Freedom Caucus is on board with the American Health Care Act rewrite, it’s the moderates waffling on a concept they had no trouble voting for in 2015.
A Thinking Mom’s Message for Jimmy Kimmel
On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery.
Trump vs. Schumer on Taxes
I’m for making things better for everyone. And the main focus of my work is improving the lives of low-income Americans.
The Smug Blind Left Is Trump’s Best Friend
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.
Break the Chains
My head spins. Before President Trump was elected, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai came on my TV show, upset because President Obama ordered his agency to regulate the Internet.
Don’t Forget Your Core
The sports network ESPN is bleeding viewers and recently announced a round of layoffs of top on-air personalities. What’s going on? Do Americans suddenly no longer like sports? No, there’s no sign of that happening. It’s left-wing politics.
Bill Funds Border Security — in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt...
The 1,665-page spending bill the Republican-controlled Congress is planning to pass this week includes multiple measures that seemingly demonstrate a commitment to securing the border — in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
Sudden Media Anger Over Happy Talk to Dictators
Situational ethics define the liberal media. There is no pursuit of truth. There is only a double standard.
Trade Ignorance and Demagoguery
When we discuss international trade and balance of payments, there are two types of accounts. There is the current account, which includes goods and services imported and exported and receives the most political attention.
Big Government Is a Human Right?
President Donald Trump has not found Washington to be easy going. Even the United Nations is against him. The UN, and I am not making this up, warns that cutting back government could violate “the right to social security of the people in the United States.”
All You Need Is Growth
As sure as the cuckoo clock chimes at midnight, the Left is bloviating that Donald Trump’s tax plan will blow a $5 trillion hole in the deficit. Many of the people complaining loudest were in the Obama administration and helped preside over a $9 trillion tidal wave of new debt. Now they are fiscally chaste. Sure.