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Friday, November 16, 2018
Problems Abound for Both Sides
Both political parties in Washington can look at last week’s election results and find encouragement. Democrats who see their victories as a sign that Donald Trump will be a one-term president should ask Mitt Romney how that turned out for him after the Republican wave of 2010.
Amid Complaints, a Reason to Give Thanks
“It’s the worst of times.” The words are Charles Dickens’, from the opening paragraph of a novel set in the 1790s, but the sentiment is familiar today. Americans are divided as never before, we are frequently told, angrily at odds with one another, polarized politically, economically, culturally and in our entertainment preferences.
Let the Democrats Keep Showing Their Hand
The Democratic Party’s emerging radical bloc is alarming, but the leftist group’s youthful intemperance could backfire and re-energize Republicans’ 2020 electoral prospects.
Truth and Its Enemies: Making Acosta a Federal Case
Question: What does CNN’s Jim Acosta crave more than anything?
Media Skip Farrakhan and Hype ‘Nazi’ Prom
It’s very easy for media elites in Manhattan to decide that one tweet can prove small towns in Wisconsin are stuffed with racists and anti-Semites.
Stan Lee’s Work a Reflection of His Times
Stan Lee, the reinventor of the comic book, died Monday at the ripe old age of 95.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Stage Being Set for Climate Change Hearings
Well, this headline from The Daily Caller is interesting: “Democrats Will Hold A Series Of Hearings On Global Warming Once They Take Power.”
Poland Prospers and Protects
We celebrated a significant milestone this Veterans Day: 100 years since the end of World War I.
Rubio Embraces Nationalism
Yesterday we told you how French President Emmanuel Macron attacked President Trump for embracing the concept of nationalism. While I’m not surprised that European elites mock national sovereignty and embrace globalism, most Americans still support President Trump’s efforts to put America first.
House Dems Out to Get Religion
One of the most important religious freedom laws in America turns 25 this Friday. But will it make it to 26? House Democrats are doing everything it can to ensure it doesn’t.
Harvard’s Problem Is a Version of America’s
In the hierarchy of pleasures, schadenfreude ranks second only to dry martinis at dusk, so conservatives are enjoying Harvard’s entanglement with two things it has not sufficiently questioned — regulatory government and progressive sentiment.
From Churchill to Trump
I have been reading a most perspicacious book by my friend Andrew Roberts. It is just out: “Churchill: Walking With Destiny.” It is terrific.
Three Cheers for Congressional Gridlock
Donald Trump and his liberal media critics rarely see eye to eye. But as they headed into last week’s midterm elections, the president and much of the press were in apparent agreement on what it will mean to have a Congress divided between a Republican Senate and a Democratic House of Representatives.
If Trump Is ‘Racist,’ He Needs to Go Back to Racism School
Abraham Lincoln, when informed that General Ulysses S. Grant was a drunk, famously asked Grant’s accusers what whiskey he was drinking so Lincoln could send a barrel to every general in the army. Keep this in mind when President Donald Trump’s critics accuse him of “racism” against blacks.
Maybe We Could Use a Civic Hippocratic Oath
A mob of protesters associated with the radical left-wing group Antifa swarmed the private residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the night of Nov. 7. They yelled, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!”
The Shame of the Catholic Church
What should trouble not only Catholics but non-Catholics too is the latest statement from the Vatican regarding the sexual abuse scandal.
‘Making a Murderer: Part 2,’ A Post-Conviction Master Class
Undoing wrongful convictions takes a killer instinct.
GOP to Dems: Here, Take Our Wallet, Too!
Election recounts would be more plausible if Democrats occasionally let the Republican win. But they don’t. Ballots miraculously discovered days and weeks after the election — in the back seat of a car, after helpful “corrections” to the ballots by election supervisors, etc. — invariably result in a surprise win for the Democrat.
Digital Tax Fight Not Yet Over
Indications suggest that the Paris-led effort to impose EU-level taxes on cross-border digital services has stalled. Opponents correctly painted the effort as a blatant tax grab against American tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon — noting also that it would apply to revenue, rather than profits.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Restoring Sexual Ethics
In our current culture, “freedom” incorrectly means the ability to do what we please without suffering any consequences.