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Friday, March 1, 2019
Don’t Root for a Trump Primary Challenge
The race for 2020 is taking shape, although there are still significant unknowns, including whether Donald Trump will get a serious primary challenge.
Cohen Overboard: Mudslinging and Civility
Only House Democrats would be desperate enough to schedule a gotcha hearing on the same day as the president’s North Korean summit.
Diversity Reigns at Oscars. Tantrums Continue
It’s amazing that ABC broadcast an overlong Academy Awards show where no one mocked President Trump by name.
Conservative Institutions Are Failing Jeremiah 29 Conservatives
After the Jewish people went into exile, the prophet Jeremiah sent them a letter, which appears in Jeremiah 29 in the Old Testament. There is no dispute about the letter’s authenticity in modern biblical scholarship.
Democrats Are Getting Out on a Dangerously Left-Wing Limb
There’s an old political saying that presidential candidates appeal to their parties’ wings — left for Democrats, right for Republicans — in the race for the nomination and then appeal to the center in the general election campaign. It was put in canonical form by Richard Nixon, one of only two Americans our major parties nominated for national office five times (the other was Franklin Roosevelt).
Michael Cohen Was Supposed to Provide ‘Bombshell’ Testimony. It Didn’t Explode.
Cohen’s testimony was certainly embarrassing for the president, but Cohen offered no evidence to advance the cause of impeachment.
Trump Calls the Democratic Party Socialist. He’s Right
A recent New York Times headline warned readers that “Republicans Already Are Demonizing Democrats as Socialists and Baby Killers.”
Two Cheers for Trump’s Summit Fiasco
A couple of years ago, opponents of Donald Trump’s presidential bid warned that a Trump presidency would be a crazy spectacle. Jeb Bush famously said that Trump was a chaos candidate who would be a chaos president.
Dems’ Deceit and Moral Bankruptcy on Abortion
Why should anyone be surprised at the left’s careening into extremism on abortion? Leftists’ position has always been morally bankrupt and deceitful.
Trump’s Fatal Attraction
The good news is that the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, did not result in a deal — because any deal would have been nothing but a scam perpetrated by Kim Jung Un.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Cheering for America
I got up yesterday and, like millions of other Americans, I turned on the news to see if there were any signs of progress in the negotiations between President Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Why the Robert Kraft Bust Matters
Robert Kraft’s name will now long be associated with one of the most despicable scourges of modern life, and rightly so.
Maryland’s End-of-Life Bill Is About One Thing: Killing
It’s called the End-of-Life Option Act. That sounds appealing — until you realize that one of the options on offer is killing.
SCOTUS Debates a Cross Country
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in American Legion v. American Humanist Association, also known as the “Peace Cross” case, which will decide whether a World War I-era, cross-shaped veterans memorial on public land “establishes” a religion in violation of the First Amendment.
Smollett Lies Expose a Culture of Lying to — and About — the Police
What impact do false accusations against cops play in pushing the “cops are out to get us” narrative?
California’s Rendezvous With Reality
Californians brag that their state is the world’s fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods.
Kudos to Dianne Feinstein
Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: Dianne Feinstein was right.
Speeding Up Spy-Free Smartphones
The fact that a “Mobile World Congress” will soon convene in Barcelona, Spain, probably doesn’t interest very many Americans. And yet what will be going on there could affect something that nearly everyone has a great deal of interest in: Our smartphones.
Hush Little Porn Star, Don’t Say a Word
I gather I was supposed to gasp when Michael Cohen said during his testimony before Congress on Wednesday, “The president of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws.”
Learning the Lessons of Protectionism the Hard Way
Protectionism begets protectionism. The latest example of this sad state of affairs comes to us via the U.S. International Trade Commission.