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 […]
The Zinnification of Discourse
If there weren’t double standards, there would be no standards. As Andy Kessler writes in the WSJ, that words, like Louis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty intoned, mean exactly what HD meant them to mean. Words today “are abused and truth has become so debased that no one believes anything anymore.” the definition of “is” uranium yellowcake […]
Make America Great Again – for All
During a roundtable event last week in Dallas, President Trump focused the discussion on “advancing the cause of justice and freedom.” President Trump zeroed in on inclusiveness and opportunity for every American, Kimberley Strassel reports in the WSJ. The diversity of the Trump administration belies the “common and absurd claim” that President Trump is “racist.” […]
Living the Summer of Love without the Love
With the killing of George Floyd, Americans are forced to face a hard reality. “In just three months it has become clear that modern urban progressivism is politically incompetent and intellectually incoherent,” writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. Media Picking at Scabs The media and press have served an arbitrating function among competing urban forces. […]
Allowing Everything Except Kneeling in Prayer?
“Clever Churchgoers Avoid Arrest By Disguising Themselves As Rioters” In Southern California, churchgoers, in spite of the mandated lockdown, have found a bold, creative way to get around the ban on in-person meetings, according to babylonbee.com. “We already have the righteous indignation thing down,” said one church elder. “Now, we’ve simply added black balaclavas, hoodies, Guy […]
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