The task is daunting and the field jostles with contenders, but the 2018 prize for politically correct stupidity goes to the campaign against “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” a tune written by Frank Loesser in 1944, during World War II and the last administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It took awhile but the
Tani Cantil-Sakauye, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, is giving up her Republican Party registration. The cause, she explained, was the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But Cantil-Sakauye was not disturbed by the sleazy charges Democrats unleashed against the Trump nominee, which evidently she believed. Instead, California’s chief
Back in 2008, Michelle Obama charged that Americans faced a “veil of impossibility,” and “only one person will snatch that veil of impossibility off their heads.” Michelle proclaimed, “I am married to the answer,” and “for the first time in my life I am proud of my country.” In this and other speeches,
Fresh off his declaration that he’s not an anti-Semite, only “anti-termite,” and with the 39th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis looming, Nation of Islam boss Louis Farrakhan flew to the Islamic Republic of Iran. There in 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini took 52 Americans hostage and held them for 444 days. That was
Barack Obama is campaigning hard for Democrats and claiming “the character of our country is on the ballot” and Republicans are “making stuff up.” Though entirely predictable, that rhetoric might be half right.The character of our country was on the ballot 10 years ago when the freshman U.S. senator from Illinois said, “We are
Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Kevin de León are contending for the U.S. Senate in California. On Wednesday, they faced off in what Dan Walters of CALmatters billed as their “one-and-only quasi-debate,” streamed online by the Public Policy Institute of California. The few voters who saw it might have learned something, but the “conversation”
The Summer of ’82,” (DNC Productions). Executive producer Dianne Feinstein; Starring Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh; co-starring the Senate Judiciary Committee. Limited release beginning September 27. Word has it this production had been in the works only since mid-summer, and in late September producers opted to greenlight the project. That was a
At a police station in Maryland, a phone rings and a female officer answers. 911: Hello, 911. What is your emergency? Ford: Hello, police? Someone just tried to rape me. 911: Tried to rape you? Ford: Yes. Tried to rape me. 911: What’s your name? Ford: Christine. 911: What happened? Ford: Well, the
Is the Pope Catholic?” is a longstanding response to those who show a stranglehold on the obvious. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich recently gave it a new twist when he said that Pope Francis’ critics “don’t like him because he’s a Latino.” Cupich didn’t quote anybody, and he avoided the more obvious reasons Pope
Back in July, Democrat senators Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren held a press conference on Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. “This has nothing to do with politics,” Booker said. “You are either complicit in the evil. You are either contributing to the wrong or you are fighting against
