ou can’t fight somethin’ with nuthin’, as the old saying goes. The “something” I refer to is the progressive curricula populating so much of what passes for our education system these days. Speech codes and safe spaces are multiplying like rabbits on our college campuses. The Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project” has franchised its “America is […]
n a short video posted this month, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells us what we must do to deal with the Chinese coronavirus. What he actually reveals is the pathology afflicting the World Health Organization and our own body politic. Here’s the not-so-good advice the not-a-medical-doctor offers: There will be no return […]
n his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell describes how politicians hide their actions beneath generous helpings of words chosen to mislead. Today’s media-saturated environment has supersized the high-calorie, low-nutrition verbiage. The twin crises of the China virus and George Floyd unrest provide a virtual all-you-can-eat buffet. “Social Distancing” Why “social” distancing? […]
s Congress prepares a booster shot to help the economy deal with the pandemic, there’s one measure they should take up that’s good for the nation’s healthcare and good for the nation’s economy. A temporary subsidy to pick up COBRA premium payments would ensure 30 million Americans continue their coverage with employer-provided health insurance. COBRA […]
ho would have thought the Gates Foundation would endorse tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, and other dead white men? Sure, you won’t find “mob violence,” “vandalism,” or “destruction of public property” in any grant applications, but the paroxysms of rage racking our country and the desire to rip racism […]
he primary contradiction in our society, the fault line that defines our politics and economy, is not Left versus Right. It’s big versus small. Anyone surprised to see corporate America (an anachronism in itself) kowtowing to cultural Marxism is trapped in the old Left-Right map that tells us “capitalists oppose Marxists.” But today’s landscape is […]
he corporate media’s outrage du jour concerns the Voice of America (VOA). VOA is the government-funded international broadcast service, our official radio channel to the world. President Trump has exercised his prerogative to replace the political appointees overseeing the enterprise. The usual suspects, the New York Times and Washington Post among them, are sounding the […]
he Chinese Communist Party is waging information warfare to shape American public opinion and influence our economic and government policy to their benefit. The CCP doesn’t shape public opinion by buying billboards and TV ads. That kind of persuasion is far too American for them. Instead, they co-opt our leaders and buy entire companies. China’s […]
ver since he first descended the escalator in the Trump Tower lobby, Donald J. Trump has exposed the mendacity and hypocrisy that passes for politics in America. The candidates sharing the primary stage with him came off as wooden dummies mouthing platitudes no one believed. The political media showed it was in on the joke, […]
t’s hard to separate the double-talk from the double standards in these days of double trouble, especially since the double trouble is itself doubled. The pandemic trouble has a double nature, consisting of a public health problem (which, miraculously, has evaporated—but we’ll get to that in a bit) and the economic trouble. Simultaneously we have […]
rogressives are a chameleon-like group, having morphed from Republicans, to Bull Mooses (or is it Meese?) to Democrats. Now is a good time to evaluate what progressives want. Today, they are more like the cuckoo than the male of the moose species. Having taken over the Democratic Party nest, the Progs pushed out the offspring […]
t’s starting to happen.” That’s what Brad Parscale said around 8 p.m. to the family and inner circle on the 14th floor of Trump Tower on November 8, 2016, as we were watching election returns trickle in from North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Parscale’s words came back to me with the news this week […]
he CCP virus pandemic has added urgency to a long-overdue reassessment of the assumptions underlying the post-World War II “international rules-based order.” To be clear, “international rules-based order” is a euphemism for globalism, and globalism has taken a beating these past few months. We’ve seen how the true cost of doing business with China is […]
resident Trump repeatedly has called on companies to move their factories out of Communist China. He imposed tariffs after determining the Chinese government was illegally subsidizing the production of those goods. Companies responded by asking the president to lift the tariffs, parroting the Chinese Communist party line. Then the coronavirus came along and exposed the […]
resident Trump says he expects China will pay a “substantial” amount of money for damages caused by the coronavirus pandemic. You can’t help but suspect the Chinese Communist Party deliberately withheld crucial information and hoarded protective supplies needed to prepare for the virus in order to wreak maximum damage both mortal and material on the […]
t 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced a bipartisan joint resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis in Yemen pursuant to the War Powers Resolution. Their bill laid the groundwork for the first-ever successful vote […]
he debate about “reopening the economy” is a phony debate. It’s phony because “the economy” isn’t shut down. Far from it. Walmart is still open. Dollar General is open. Amazon is open. Alibaba is open. It just so happens that the big-box mass merchandisers and online retailers responsible for flooding our country with crap from […]
s we contemplate a possible end to the ongoing pandemic shutdown, several questions lie ahead for us. First—and foremost on everyone’s minds—is when will the lockdown end? And when it ends, what will be left of our economy? One thing is certain now: The national lockdown is crushing small businesses. Each of these businesses is […]
his writer and others who for decades railed against outsourcing industries to the People’s Republic of China were long dismissed as crackpots and Luddites. Now many of those who were doing the dismissing have been forced to admit the true cost of cheap goods is very high. The Chinese Communist Party virus has exposed many […]
Don’t matter where you are Everybody’s gonna need a ventilator — “Ventilator Blues” Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor he Wuhan coronavirus has laid bare America’s dependence on Communist China for critical medical supplies, from pharmaceuticals, facemasks and hospital gowns, to medical ventilators. Besides suffering from the Wuhan virus, America has a bad case of […]