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Thursday, July 4, 2019
‘What the Fourth of July Means to Me’
In his first year as president, Reagan wrote an essay entitled “What the Fourth of July Means to Me.”
What the Founding Fathers Knew About Making a Great Nation
Birthdays and anniversaries, especially as the years accumulate, are accompanied by reciting and reliving the stories of the past. The older I get, the more I look back with appreciation on those occasions where I listened to my grandparents and parents relive defining moments in their lives. Those accounts not only give me a better understanding of our family’s story, but my place in that still unfolding story.
Megan Rapinoe’s Anthem Protests Hurt the Fight for Gender Equity
Nike has withdrawn a new Independence Day-themed shoe featuring the Revolutionary War-era flag after former NFL quarterback and Nike-endorser Colin Kaepernick complained that the flag was a symbol of the slave era, according to the Wall Street Journal. Nike offered a lame excuse that it had removed the shoe from retailers because “it featured an old version of the American flag.”
Nike Fans the Flames of the Culture War
Nike is doing it wrong. I don’t mean the shoemaking, though that thing with Zion Williamson was pretty bad, I have to say. No, Nike is doing it wrong because it managed to do something that all the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, alt-righters and other denizens of the lowest coprophagic phylum of our political life could never do: It turned the Betsy Ross flag into a racist symbol.
President Trump’s Opportunity to School Qatar
Less than a week after the nation celebrates its 243 birthday, President Trump has an opportunity to enhance — once again — America’s international status and improve the lives of millions of people during an upcoming meeting with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Odd Stories
There are a lot of odd stories making the rounds these days. How about the odd stories that E. Jean Carroll has accumulated around her? Unlike any of the other commentators esteeming her of late, I have known her since the early 1960s; I went to Indiana University with Jean, as she was then called.
Democratic Debates: Did Russia Pay These Candidates to Throw the Election to Trump?
Did the Russians pay the 2020 Democratic candidates to throw the 2020 election to President Donald Trump? Watching all four hours of the first Democratic debates, it became increasingly difficult to reach any other conclusion.
Was Thomas Jefferson on the Duke Lacrosse Team?
While tearing down everything that’s great about our country, the left has always permitted us to celebrate patriotic holidays.
‘Real America’ Inside the Beltway
Two blocks away, a different anguish was visible in an encampment of homeless people on E Street, within eyesight of the State Department and the leafy campus of George Washington University. People who have grown used to this anguish hurry past.
Censoring the Census
The notion of history repeating itself is usually viewed as a negative statement, but some history is worth repeating because we might learn and be guided by it.
How Not to Score a Goal in the Global Trade War
President Donald Trump likes to keep score. Well, here’s a score for him: America, zero; while the rest of the world keeps tallying up free trade points.
Democratic Candidates Aren’t on a Winning Track
Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. But for the general election, the nominees move to the center to pick off swing voters and centrist independents.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Biden Was Right. Busing Was Wrong.
“Vice President Biden,” demanded Kamala Harris in the climactic encounter of last Thursday’s Democratic debate, “do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then?”
Colin Kaepernick and Culture Jihadists Are Coming for Old Glory
The “culture jihadists” refer to a militant army made up of secularists, socialists, and race agitators. They are committed to finishing what President Obama started when he promised to fundamentally change the nation.
Wall Street’s Own Democrats Are Trying to Convince You They’re Running Against the Bush GOP
Who do these Democrats think they’re running against next November? Whatever straw man they’ve conjured up in their imaginations, it certainly doesn’t seem like they’re expecting to run against President Trump.
Green New Deal’s Centralized Government Approach Won’t Ensure a Cleaner Environment
There’s no way around it: big government proposals require big public scrutiny.
Biden Takes a Hit
A CNN poll released Monday night confirms what everyone suspected. The two days of Democrat debates were a disaster for the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, and a bonanza for Sen. Kamala Harris.
Yes, Trump Makes Nice With Dictators, but His Tough Actions Count More
During a single visit to Asia, President Trump embraced not one, not two, but three dictators.
No, Democrats, America Works
With the first round of Democratic Party debates behind us, Americans have now heard from their candidates why they think they should run the country.