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Friday, April 14, 2017
Our Three Presidents Born in 1946
With the inauguration of Donald Trump this year, we have now had, for the first time in our history, three American presidents who were born in the same year.
Lassie, Come Home
War is like crack for presidents. It confers instant gravitas, catapulting them to respectability, bypassing all station stops. They get to make macho pronouncements on a topic where every utterance is seen as august.
Must Supporters Let Trump Be Trump?
Like a passenger on a sinking ship, the president has been throwing one longstanding position after another overboard like so much dead weight. His closest advisors, biggest boosters and some members of his family are at war with one another, in a pitch battle to steer the president in their preferred direction.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Planned Parenthood: Going for Broke
The biggest prize of last November is getting settled in his Supreme Court office. But Justice Neil Gorsuch was only part of the GOP’s payoff for electing Donald Trump. With Antonin Scalia’s replacement firmly in place, conservatives are turning up the heat on phase two: defunding Planned Parenthood.
Obama Claimed ‘All’ of Syria’s Chemical Weapons Had Been Eliminated
The Obama administration claimed that it negotiated with Syria and Russia to eliminate “100 percent” of Syria’s chemical weapons. After President Barack Obama’s 2012 “red line” warning to Syria about using chemical weapons, Syria launched a chemical attack in August 2013. But U.S. military action was avoided by the alleged Russian/American/Syrian diplomatic accomplishment, achieved without “firing a shot.”
The President Is Allowed to Change His Mind
It looks like former President Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice will get a reprieve. With all the hullabaloo from President Donald Trump’s military action last week in Syria’s ... do we call it Syria’s civil war or a massacre?
Obama Is America’s Version of Stanley Baldwin
Last year, President Obama assured the world that “we are living in the most peaceful, prosperous and progressive era in human history,” and that “the world has never been less violent.”
Democrats Aren’t the Party of Science
As fate would have it, Hillary Clinton spoke at last month’s Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security, where she emphasized the importance of peace, of women and of women in peace.
Executing the Guilty and Innocent in Arkansas
Nearly three dozen men sit on death row in Arkansas, where capital punishment has been suspended since 2005. Unless clemency is granted, seven of them, an eighth man was granted a temporary reprieve, will be given lethal injections all within a 10-day period, between April 17 and 27.
What the Freedom Caucus Stands For
With a mellifluous name suggesting bucolic tranquility, Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, is an unlikely object of the caterwauling recently directed at him and the House Freedom Caucus he leads. The vituperation was occasioned by the HFC’s role rescuing Republicans from embracing an unpopular first draft of legislation to replace Obamacare.
Should the United States Stop Cooperating With the OECD?
How would you feel if I told you that we taxpayers are spending millions of dollars every year to fund an army of bureaucrats who advocate higher taxes and bigger government around the globe?
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Baby in a Jar
“There’s a jar on the shelf with a little baby in it!” the girl nervously whispered. Several of us were gathered around one of the lab stations in our seventh-grade science class when my wide-eyed classmate revealed her gruesome discovery.
Professor Who Wants Trump to Hang Faces Probe
Fresno State University said it will fully cooperate with any federal investigation after a professor posted a series of Twitter messages calling for President Trump to be hanged and for Republicans to be executed.
Meadows Mows Down Costs
What recess? Republicans aren’t getting much of a break from politics this week, thanks to a homegrown debate over health care. Back in their districts, there’s no escaping the drama surrounding the Obamacare repeal as new ads play repeatedly on local televisions. For two weeks, competing groups are trying to sway the pesky middle of the GOP — the moderates — on an emerging plan that the rest of the party is starting to get behind.
More Freedom — Good for Blacks, Bad for Black Politicians
When President Trump recently met with the Congressional Black Caucus leadership, they presented him with their new report, “We Have A Lot To Lose.” It’s their assessment on fixing the problems in black America.
The Insanity of the Left’s Child Gender-Confusion Agenda
On Sunday, The New York Times ran a piece by Jack Turban, a research fellow at the Yale School of Medicine. Turban says that doctors should begin applying puberty blockers to children who identify as transgender as early as possible. That’s because, according to him, “it has become clear that if we support these children in their transgender identities instead of trying to change them, they thrive instead of struggling with anxiety and depression.”
Who’s Unsafe on Campus?
Springtime may be in bloom, but snowflakes never go out of season at America’s most prestigious colleges and universities.
Warrior Trump
Somehow, firing Tomahawk missiles at Syria suddenly changed people’s opinions of President Trump. Now they call him a “serious” leader.
The Syria Debate
A Rasmussen poll released Tuesday morning confirms the findings from Monday’s CBS poll — 57% of likely voters approve of President Trump’s missile strikes against Syria.