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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The 8chan Terrorists
The ancient hatred has migrated to the internet. The San Diego synagogue shooter was self-radicalized on a right-wing message board on the website 8chan, posting before he went on his rampage a thank-you to the board’s users: “what I’ve learned here is priceless.”
Legal Infanticide: Biggest Mistake Ever
It was a surreal segment of the Friday morning news. Just over the border in Columbia, Maryland, Fox 5 reporters were on the scene of a grisly homicide.
Discrimination and Disparities
My longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of “Discrimination and Disparities.”
Poway Synagogue Shooting
On the last day of Passover, a 19-year-old filled with hate entered the Chabad of Poway synagogue, north of San Diego, and opened fire. The Poway attack came six months to the day after the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
The Carbon Tax Fantasy
Every time a reporter asks me if I would support a carbon tax, I always say that I might if it led to a dollar-for-dollar reduction in income or payroll tax rates.
The Democrats’ Economy Problem
How long can Democrats continue to claim the roaring economy should be credited to the Obama administration? How many, except the self-deluded, actually believe this?
Monday, April 29, 2019
We Have Proof That President Trump Did Not Defend Neo-Nazis
If the Culture Jihadists take down statues memorializing Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy, should they also take down statues honoring George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Just how far will the cultural cleansing of American history go?
Trail of Tears, Oklahoma History, & Will Rogers
Gold had been discovered in Georgia in 1828, resulting in a Democrat-controlled Congress rushing through the Indian Removal Act, which passed by a single vote in 1830.
When Terrorists Killed His Daughter, His Long Crusade for Justice Began
I learned of Sunday’s horrific suicide bombings in Sri Lanka just as I was finishing a new book about an earlier instance of terror.
Trump the Magnificent
There is a terrific scene in “An American in Paris” in which my friend Oscar Levant got to give full vent to his sizable ego.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Democrats Should Put Up or Shut Up on Impeachment
Democrats are all hat and no cattle. It’s time they put up or shut up with their saber rattling over impeachment.
Easter Attacks a Reminder of What Really Matters
“DerangedDonald” and “Uncle Joe” were trending when I logged onto Twitter this past Thursday morning. Readers, I was not surprised. Politics is nothing but a reality TV show these days, after all, and it sucks up more attention than “Survivor” did in its heyday.
GDP Up
The Trump economy continues to defy expectations. First quarter economic growth came in at 3.2%, beating expectations of 2.5%. According to CNBC, “It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.”
Out of the Ashes of Notre Dame
One day someone will write of how his grief, his shock, opened a door and his faith came rushing in.
Catholic Military Veteran Banned From Selling Apples at Farmer’s Market
A federal judge will decide if a Michigan farm owned by a Catholic military veteran will be allowed to sell their apples at a city-owned farmer’s market.
The Charity Question
It figures that once Robert Mueller and his band of merry Hillary supporters failed to discover a bromance between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Trump-haters in Congress and the media would begin once begin beating the drums, demanding that the President release his income tax returns.
Friday, April 26, 2019
Flat-Earth Christianity
The 21st century is overrun with people who think that unless they experience something themselves or have firsthand knowledge of a fact, there is no truth.
Impeaching Trump Will Only Help Him
President Trump has called the Mueller investigation a “witch hunt” nearly two hundred times on social media alone. Well, the special counsel concluded he was not a witch.
Trump Loyalists Will Turn Their Backs on McGahn
So Don McGahn is in the president’s crosshairs. Whose side are you on?
Will Conservatives Give Russia a Pass?
The conservative media world, along with all but a few Republican members of Congress, are in the process of handing Vladimir Putin his greatest victory yet.