That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, as Friedrich Nietzsche would put it. At this year’s State of the Union address, will Donald Trump, “strengthened by the failure of his antagonists,” take a page out of Bill Clinton’s 1999 State of the Union address? Bill Clinton also went through the same process and came out […]
Martin Luther King’s Leadership, Moral Imagination, Strategic Genius
“It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history—so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause—that it should have produced, at every hinge point, great men who matched the moment,” begins Charles Krauthammer’s essay “Martin Luther King in Words and Stone” in Krauthhammer’s Things That Matter. A roiling, revolutionary 18th-century British colony […]
Wow. It’s a Grim America out There
Just listen to any of the Democratic presidential contenders, suggests the WSJ, and you’ll be scratching your head: Joe Biden: The middle class and working-class people are being clobbered. “The wealthy are the only ones doing well, period.” Elizabeth Warren: America is not working for Americans who “are sick of living in a country” that […]
Why People Hate the Press
Peggy Noonan in the WSJ outlines her “favorite” panel-candidate moment from Tuesday night’s Democratic debate. Bright Young Woman Journalist: “Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Sen. Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Sanders: “That is correct.” BYWJ: “Sen. Warren, what did you think […]
The Creepiness of Pelosi’s Impeachment Signing Ceremony
Media driven ceremonies usually are centered on big, happy legislation. And yes, with many pens, as Peggy Noonan points out in the WSJ. (A smiling Pelosi passed out golden taxpayer-funded pens as souvenirs.) Lyndon B. Johnson liked clutching bunches of them in his thick, meaty fist and handing them out personally. But the impeachment of […]
Democratic Candidates Looked Just as Bored as Viewers
Six competitors took the stage at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. The problem, explains James Freeman, was that nobody wanted to compete. Given a final opportunity to challenge rivals before Democrats begin selecting the party’s nominee, the candidates looked just as bored as the television viewers who were treated to stale recitations of campaign talking points. […]
Around Obama White House, Biden Known as the Sheriff
One has to wonder why former VP Joe Biden, likely the Democratic frontrunner for 2020, hasn’t explained or has not been asked to explain how son Hunter got a seat on the board of Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company. For seven-figures. Keep in mind, writes Bill Thomas in American Greatness, Biden was the previous […]
Poverty Rate for Blacks and Hispanics Lowest on Record
Although last Friday’s employment report showed fewer new jobs and slowing wage gains, there is still good news. The big picture is that the longest hiring expansion in 80 years is lifting lower-income workers in particular, reports James Freeman in the WSJ. As accumulating evidence shows, the jobless rate remains steady at 3.5% (labor participation […]
Trump’s Erasing Soleimani Good News for Western Hemisphere
The killing by drone of General Soleimani is not only a blow to Iran’s theocratic efforts to assert its power across the Middle East, explains Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ. President Trump also did Latin America a big favor with the death of “a hero of hemispheric criminality.” Soleimani’s Friends America’s Enemies The dead […]
The Parody of Impeachment: Urgency Gone Missing?
It seems like long ago, but only three short weeks have passed since House Democrats assured Americans that a rush to vote was necessary before Christmas. President Trump, they claimed, posed a clear and present danger. At the time of the House Impeachment shenanigans, House Democrats argued that former national security adviser John Bolton need […]
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