Can Joe Biden be trusted? It was President Richard Nixon who said in the midst of the enveloping Watergate scandal: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.” That standard should be applied to...
There are conservatives who lie, and there are liberals who lie, but both conservatism and liberalism hold truth to be a supreme value. This is not true for leftism. Truth is simply not a left-wing value. Lying is to the left what breathing is to biological life. That is...
When it comes to slowing the spread of the coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to think that some crowds are more dangerous than others. The public face of President Donald Trump’s pandemic response is under fire for hypocrisy after failing to condemn large Women’s March protests in Washington, D.C.,...
Back to where we left off the other day: democracy’s varied discontents staring us straight in our blurred and reddening eyes, obscuring once-familiar loyalties and understandings. Modern democracy as a bloodier and bloodier power struggle, our self-chosen political classes’ refusal to recognize reality as a barrier to the achievement...
President Donald Trump made light of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell,” comparing the discovery of the computer to the “October surprise” that overshadowed the final days of former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s doomed presidential campaign in 2016. At a rally in Arizona on Monday, the president joked that Biden’s...
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh stunned his audience earlier this year with an announcement that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. In an on-air update this week, he told fans that the condition has taken a turn for the worse and now amounts to a “death sentence,”...
The Biden campaign has now pulled an ad from the airwaves Monday after a retired Army general publicly objected to the campaign’s use of his likeness. Retired Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, who led the Obama administration’s effort to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria, says that “a number of...
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has come under increased scrutiny, along with his son, Hunter, over the latter’s international business connections in the wake of a bombshell report regarding emails purportedly found on his laptop. While many in the mainstream media have dismissed or attempted to invalidate the story...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has developed a habit of making largely incomprehensible assertions during media appearances, and her recent attempt to rally Democratic voters to the polls is yet another example. During an interview on ABC’s This Week, she appeared to liken the Republican Party’s legacy on COVID-19 policy...
With numerous national and battleground-state polls pointing to a supposedly decisive victory for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, some progressive pundits seem to be — like in 2016 — prematurely celebrating an Election Day victory. Two weeks before ballots are counted, however, numerous factors are causing anxiety among Democratic...
Following a lengthy and lucrative career in Hollywood, actress Whoopi Goldberg has become widely known for sharing her political thoughts as a cohost of ABC’s The View. She recently announced, however, that she is suffering from a bout of serious depression and told her daytime TV audience that the cause...
Longtime U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has long been a focus of criticism for conservatives based on her commitment to progressive causes. In recent days, however, a simple display of bipartisan kindness resulted in her vilification by some fellow liberals, and she is now facing calls to have her...
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has frequently promoted the idea that President Donald Trump has in some way violated the law by colluding with Russia ahead of the 2016 presidential election. When he pushed the theory this week that a similar conspiracy is at play this year, however, a...
Conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh revealed on Monday that his cancer diagnosis is now terminal, telling listeners that he can no longer deny that he is “under a death sentence.“ Limbaugh was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in February and has been undergoing treatment for it since then....
