As the protests stemming from the death of George Floyd have spread across the country, social media pseudo-activism has followed. The central feature of a modern shame culture, especially on such platforms, is to identify anyone with divergent viewpoints and then work to destroy those people’s lives. The goal...
A common refrain on America’s new hawkish stance regarding China is that we’ve entered a second Cold War. It’s an understandable comparison, since some of the most powerful tools of both countries are economic-based. But that’s a slightly outdated way of viewing things. It’s not an economic or military...
Once again, President Donald Trump is being scapegoated for societal problems that he didn’t cause. He didn’t bring the coronavirus to our shores, and he has not created an atmosphere of racial disharmony in this country. Is there anything Trump’s haters won’t blame on him? They’ve been trying to...
Which of the following would you consider the most unusual and least likely to occur? 1) President Trump calls Speaker Nancy Pelosi to invite her to lunch. 2) Rioters and looters agree to pay for the damage they caused to businesses and individuals. 3) Conservative talk show host Rush...
Black lives matter. Black businesses, not so much. Four Minneapolis cops were summarily fired, with one of the four arrested and charged with the murder of a black suspect named George Floyd, who died in police custody. In cellphone video apparently taken by one of the many witnesses, a...
George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last week when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string of high-profile cases nationwide in which citizens, most of them African Americans, died from reckless police force. Once again, protests over police brutality...
In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That’s bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a...
Dear law-abiding Americans: You have done nothing wrong. Being white is not a crime. Being a Trump voter is not a crime. Being a police officer sworn to “protect and serve” every day is not a crime. Being a non-white police officer proud to uphold and enforce law and...
Imagine that you are an unborn spirit in heaven. God condemns you to a life of poverty but will permit you to choose the country in which you will spend your life. Which country would you choose? I would choose the United States of America. A recent study by...
An overlooked irony of these terrible, horrible, awful, no good, very bad times (as the great children’s author Judith Viorst would have described them) is the 5-4 Supreme Court decision last week upholding California’s restrictions on church attendance, the whole matter playing out on the sterile card table of...
When developing a meteorological forecast, it is necessary to start with the vital ingredients of what makes up the weather. Some of those essential elements are temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, and clouds. Each factor impacts the others and creates the phenomena we experience every day, from sunny...
Don’t listen to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s predictable critics. The level of vitriol the leftist media hurls at her daily — during and apart from the press briefings — conclusively proves she is doing a superb job. Liberal journalists whip their long knives in her direction and...
A few weeks ago, lawyer and national security writer Benjamin Wittes, outraged over the Justice Department’s move to drop charges against Michael Flynn, revealed more about himself than corruption at the FBI and DOJ. In what he meant as a defense of those institutions and an attack on Flynn,...
The current U.S. budget deficit could soon exceed a record $4 trillion. The massive borrowing is being driven both by prior budget profligacy and a hurried effort by the Donald Trump administration to pump liquidity into a quarantined America. The shutdown has left the country on the cusp of...
