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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Things Haven’t Always Been This Way
Here’s a suggestion. How about setting up some high school rifle clubs? Students would bring their own rifles to school, store them with the team coach and, after classes, collect them for practice. You say: “Williams, you must be crazy! To prevent gun violence, we must do all we can to keep guns out of the hands of kids.”
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Big Tech, Consent, and Deliberation
The monopolistic control of Big Tech is strangling political deliberation and thereby endangers the Republic established by the Founders. And it is doing this through the unabashed censorship of conservatives.
George Washington Was Right About ‘Baneful’ Two-Party Politics
Toxic partisanship in the United States is not a new problem.
We All Wanted to Love the Women’s Soccer Team
For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever the sport, I have always rooted American.
The Left vs. Law Enforcement
While the border crisis continues, the American left is becoming more violent, and its enablers in Congress and the courts resist efforts to stem the crisis. Here are the latest developments from the weekend.
Pence the Center of Detention on U.S. Border
The crisis at our southern border isn’t “manufactured,” Vice President Mike Pence insisted. And he ought to know. America’s second-in-command just flew back from a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he saw first-hand the damage Democrats have done by fighting the funding for ICE.
Apollo 11 at 50
You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we dubbed it), met many of the astronauts and reported on their exploits.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Is Texas Dem Exploiting Loophole by Coaching Migrants to Lie?
Are Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and her staff violating federal immigration law? If the information reported in The Washington Examiner is correct, then the answer could be “yes.”
Senior Center Compares Pledge of Allegiance to Nazism
When a group of senior citizens in Washington State was told it could no longer pray or recite the Pledge of Allegiance at its community center, it reached out to the one organization it knew would help — The American Legion.
New Bestseller Reveals Liberal Women Carried the Day for Kavanaugh
Pundits credit different events for turning the tide on now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious Supreme Court confirmation. Some point to Kavanaugh’s impassioned testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Still others say it was Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) fiery speech, in which he lambastes his Democratic Judiciary Committee colleagues for withholding the allegations against Kavanaugh and then leaking those allegations at the most politically opportune time for Senate liberals.
French Revolution — Bastille Day and Reign of Terror
In 1781, 27-year-old King Louis XVI of France sent his navy and troops to help America gain independence from Britain.
Sneaks & Sneakers
Partly I was amused, mainly I was disgusted, when I heard Democrats dismiss President Trump’s call for a citizenship question to be included on the census as constituting a purely political stunt.
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Respecting Life at the End of It
“God be good to him – we sure weren’t,” was the prayer that came to mind when I saw the news that Vincent Lambert had died. He died nine days after being taken off food and water following a long legal battle.
Troop Bill Off Base for Trump, GOP
These days, there aren’t a lot of things Congress does on time. That’s what makes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) so unique.
Plan B
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, President Trump announced an end to the legal stalemate over the citizenship question and the census. Both the president and Attorney General Barr made strong arguments about the fundamental issue of distinguishing the difference between citizens and non-citizens.
The Why, How and What of America
Readings to appreciate the making of our nation and its continuing miracle.
Hockey Coach: We’re Not Women’s Soccer; We Stand for the National Anthem
It was the first day of camp for the Hat Tricks, the new minor league hockey team in Danbury, Connecticut. And Assistant Coach John Krupinsky had something on his mind.
It’s Called Projection
In the world of psychoanalysis, when someone falsely accuses people of doing bad things that they don’t do but which he or she does regularly, the shrinks call it projecting.
Friday, July 12, 2019
Politics Spoiled the Fun of America’s Soccer Cup Win
It’s too bad we had somebody like Colin Kaepernick playing soccer in the Women’s World Cup.
Colbert Cartoon Crumbles Truth
If you’re a liberal, what’s more fun than watching the liberal press trash conservatives seven days a week? How about watching the entertainment media mock conservatives for complaining about all this abuse?