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Saturday, February 25, 2017
Promises Kept
Friday morning, President Donald Trump addressed CPAC, and he received a tremendously warm welcome. The president delivered a powerful, unapologetic, pro-America speech.
The Real Reality Show Star
As Donald Trump proved once again during a press conference that lasted over an hour, the man doesn’t need a roomful of fawning would-be apprentices in order to captivate an audience. What he managed to do for all those years heading up a TV reality show was just an out-of-town rehearsal for the real thing.
Friday, February 24, 2017
The Myth of the Passive President
President Donald Trump gives the impression of having done everything in his first month in the White House — except think about Congress.
Trump Has a Grating Style but Significant Substance
Substance and style — it’s easy to get them confused or mistake one for the other. And they’re never entirely unconnected, though exactly how much so is a matter of debate. That’s especially true when it comes to evaluating Donald Trump’s performance — a word particularly ambiguous in his case, as referring to either oratorical style or policy substance.
Stop Belittling the Holocaust With Your Stupid Nazi Analogies
When the Associated Press dropped a breathless piece contending that the Trump administration was “considering” and “weighing” using 100,000 National Guard troops to help round up illegal immigrants, the media erupted into its usual hysterics.
A Speech to Denounce Meryl Streep
Actress Meryl Streep isn’t just denouncing the dire state of America at Hollywood awards shows. She’s now taking her speech to far-left events, recently accepting the Ally Award from the LGBTQ political-correctness police at the Human Rights Campaign. Since so many Americans will never get to stand on an awards show stage and speak their mind about what’s wrong with the world, we thought we’d present a speech responding to Streep and what she represents.
Return to Normal
Last year, school districts all across America received an unbelievable letter from the federal government. The Obama Education Department, citing federal Title IX prohibitions against sex discrimination in public education programs, threatened to withhold funding unless every school changed its policies to allow boys who claim to be girls to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.
Trump and the ‘Madman Theory’
At the heart of Donald Trump’s foreign policy team lies a glaring contradiction. On the one hand, it is composed of men of experience, judgment and traditionalism. Meaning, they are all very much within the parameters of mainstream American internationalism as practiced since 1945.
Our Broken American Covenant
The story of the Old Testament is of a people chosen by God who continually reject him. Again and again the Lord calls His people back and sends messengers calling His people to repent. Finally, the Lord sends them into exile. Their temple is destroyed and they are scattered. Still, God remains faithful to His people even then. God keeps His promises. God keeps his covenant.
Press Is Not the Enemy, but Nor Is It Objective
Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” had an unfortunate turn of phrase the other day. She said it’s the mission of the press to “control exactly what people think.”
Trump Interrupts Trans Mission
When liberals put together their bathroom agenda, I guarantee there’s one word that never came up: Congress. Like the rest of its LGBT agenda, the Left knows it has no chance of convincing leaders that it’s a good idea to force boys and girls to shower together, bunk together on school trips, and use the same locker rooms and bathrooms. So the Left turned to the playbook that’s delivered the most success: a mix of executive overreach and judicial activism.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Trump Right to Fix Obama’s Unlawful Transgender School Policy
The Trump administration acted Wednesday night to fix the Obama administration’s unlawful “gender identity” school policy and return authority to parents and teachers in the states.
What’s Happening in Sweden
As if on cue, riots broke out in a heavily immigrant suburb of Stockholm as soon as the media mocked President Donald Trump for a vague warning about immigration-related problems in Sweden.
America’s Predictable Pension Crisis
Some American disasters come as bolts from the blue — the stock market crash of October 1929, Pearl Harbor, the designated hitter, 9/11. Others are predictable because they arise from arithmetic that is neither hidden nor arcane. Now comes the tsunami of pension problems that will wash over many cities and states.
Cronyism Thwarts Telemedicine and Other Innovations
The goal of health care reform is to provide better health care to everyone at a lower cost, year after year. The solution is not to provide a better third-party-payer system — e.g., health insurance or government-provided health insurance — but instead to allow technological development and entrepreneurship to improve the current business model through groundbreaking innovations that empower consumers, improve quality and cut prices. We have seen it happen in many industries, such as transportation, room and board, and tech.
What Happened to Conservative Optimism?
Today, conservatism has become known in the eyes of many for what and who it is against, not what and who it is for. Yes, part of this is due to media stereotyping, but not all. Traditional conservatism has been a positive “we can do better,” an inspiring and uplifting philosophy that motivates rather than denigrates.
The Labyrinth of Illegal Immigration
Activists portray illegal immigration solely as a human story of the desperately poor from south of the border fleeing misery to start new, productive lives in the U.S. — despite exploitation and America’s nativist immigration laws. But the truth is always more complex — and can reveal self-interested as well as idealistic parties.
CPAC’s Odd Tango With Milo Yiannopoulos
From the outset, many on the Right who do not consider themselves part of the Cult of Milo opposed his CPAC invitation. The disturbing thing is that, absent these videos, we would have lost the fight.
Nouns and Verbs and Obama Do Not Agree
“Not since Lincoln has there been a president as fundamentally shaped — in his life, convictions and outlook on the world — by reading and writing as Barack Obama,” said Michiko Kakutani, the literary critic of the famed New York Times. Did you know this? Frankly, I did not know President Obama was so wedded to books and the printed word as to be compared to President Abraham Lincoln, author of the Gettysburg Address and the magisterial second inaugural address and devotee of Shakespeare.