“Nobody contests Jim Acosta’s right to be a jerk in front of a TV camera,” writes William McGurn in the WSJ. It’s a mutual convenience to film the press corps and the White House at press briefings. By filming inside the White House grounds, networks convey the illusion of intimacy and authority, Mr. McGurn reminds […]
A Downside to Prosperity this Thanksgiving
Traffic. Lots of it, especially in Boston, NYC, and San Fran. Air travel also will reach historic levels, with predictions of a record 30.6 million passengers flying on U.S. airlines. According to the American Automobile Association: Consumers have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season: higher wages, more disposable income and rising levels […]
Have Republicans Lost the Culture and Establishment Wars?
“The masters of our social media and Internet universe are the most insidiously partisan,” writes Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. Open your laptop or power on your smartphone, and you meet their shadow personas nonstop. It is not just that the smug class of Menlo Park and Palo Alto censor and disallow posts, podcasts, […]
How Mainstream Media, D.C. Swamp, Hollywood Can Regain Credibility
Does today’s society need a civic culture that does not embrace incendiary words and deeds? Victor Davis Hanson suggests there is a way to stop the erosion of the traditions and manners that prior generations have bequeathed. Why not try a voluntary code of civic conduct—something akin to the medical profession’s ancient Greek Hippocratic oath—that […]
Have Republicans Learned Anything from Last Week’s Election?
Tucker Carlson believes that it is not just Democrats who should have learned something from the recent elections. There were lessons for Republicans too. Here’s one: voters care about campaign promises. If you don’t fulfill them, they’ll notice. In 2016, Republicans promised to build a wall, get rid of Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood. They […]
Police Investigation of Vote Fraud in Broward County?
Is there anything that counts as “evidence” of vote fraud occurring in Broward or Palm Beach Counties? Read from Francis Menton what might be considered to be evidence: On election night Broward County reported that some 634,000 votes had been cast in the county. Clearly they had the means available to know the number of […]
America – Stop the Slide, Support Families
Is the Republican message working, Tucker Carlson, Fox News commentator, asks. Despite the tax bill passed through Congress, “Republican strategists seem to forget that a huge percentage of Americans do not even pay federal taxes.” According to the Tax Policy Center, a total of 79 million American households that filed tax returns paid no taxes […]
Putting the Mid-Terms into Perspective
It’s about as good as Republicans could have hoped for and really disappointing for Progressives. The Blue Wave that the media was envisioning turned out to be an ordinary mid-term election, almost a yawner, rather than an extraordinary rebuke of President Trump. As the Washington Examiner points out: Recent presidents have suffered much more severe […]
Higher Taxes/Bigger Government or Lower Taxes/Smaller Government
With the mid-term elections now behind us, it is time to recognize that there are two alternative approaches to fundamental economic policy, the Manhattan Contrarian writes: One that works. One that does not. The big overriding fundamental issue, ex details and nuances, Francis Menton asks, is, which is better for economic success and prosperity? Higher […]
Trump–a Walking, Talking Jumbo of Political incorrectness
Long before Donald Trump took up residence in the White House, he was a celebrity billionaire who rode his populism to defeat Hillary Clinton. But as William McGurn points out in the WSJ, a funny thing happened to DT once he became president. At some point he understood that if he was not to fizzle […]
