In what sounded like a familiar Fourth of July ode to liberty and U.S. achievement, President Donald Trump delivered a speech that could be labeled “Cancel Culture”, or what Roger Kimball refers to as the politically correct culture of intolerance. The Intolerance of Cancel Culture Roger Kimball writes in American Greatness, cancel culture is “the […]
Cardinal Dolan on the Dangers of Cancel Culture
In an op-ed for the WSJ, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, explores the dangers of cancel culture. In pointing out the importance of honoring the good in our history while remembering the bad. Addressing a criticism of naming a church after, say, Mary Magdalene, “not always a paragon of virtue for a chunk […]
Mexico’s Deadly Crisis – Drug Cartels and Pandemic
Mexico’s problems become our own? With the rising power of the drug cartels coupled with the destabilizing effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, “the Mexican state is in serious trouble,” warns John Davidson in The Federalist. With so much turmoil and trouble across the country right now, most Americans are probably not thinking about our southern […]
Stoke Chaos, Obstruct Recovery, Keep Biden in the Basement
Joe Biden’s early career, Victor Davis Hanson writes in NRO, “illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in full control of his faculties.” Biden’s Latently Bigoted Trademarks We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and […]
Hospital Capacity Crisis? Zero!
There is no crisis in hospital capacity anywhere in the country, reports Heather Mac Donald in Spectator.US. Where Are the Deaths? Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections. Half the states are seeing cases decline or hold steady. Case counts are affected by more testing; the positive infection rate […]
Play Ball and Make It Snappy!
Baseball, by some rumors, is back. It will be brief, but, as Jason Gay questions in the WSJ, will it be better? Assuming there are no disruptions due to Covid-19, there will be only 60 games since it’s so late in the season, instead of the traditional 162 games. As Mr. Gay observes, lopping off […]
GOP Police Reform Bill Won’t Reach Floor for Debate
Senator Tim Scott has presented a good-faith bill that would go a long way in helping to nudge local police departments toward improved practices. Even though a majority of Americans, regardless of party affiliation, want something done about police abuse, Tim Scott’s bill may not reach the floor. Blame the GOP In what the WSJ […]
Politicians Won’t Talk about the Madness
There was good news in Chicago over Father’s Day weekend. Only 14 people were killed, including a 13-year-old girl shot in the neck at her home, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That compares favorably to the last weekend in May, when 24 persons were killed in Chicago. When Will the Woke Awake? But in the […]
Our Cities Are Broke
When America returns to “normal,” what will become abundantly clear is that our big cities are no longer even marginally clean or safe. Who Wants to Be A Cop? Nationwide police will determine that is no longer worth getting killed, fired, spat upon or put in prison to answer a 911 call, writes Victor Davis […]
AOC – Sabotaging the Democratic Process
Was President Trump’s rally in Tulsa sabotaged by TikTok? The Chinese-owned teenage app inundated the Trump campaign with thousands of fake RSVPs for its Tulsa rally over last weekend. Apparently, as John Fund writes in NRO, TikTok “fooled Team Trump, which touted the signups as the reason the president would have to address an outdoor […]
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