Less fanaticism, more restraint, and more moderation — not the worst idea for a new year’s resolution.
Publication: National Review
Our Covid-19 Mandates Make No Sense Against the New Variant
If everyone’s going to catch Omicron, why are we threatening to fire truckers during a supply-chain crisis? Why are we threatening to fire anyone, for that matter? No business threatens to fire an employee who skips an annual flu shot. The hyper-contagiousness of Omicron also means that most of our masking protocols are requiring people to take actions that won’t do any good against this variant.
Worst Media Misses of 2021
Includes DeSantis derangement disorder, the Chris Cuomo fiasco and the lab leak conspiracy theory.
Biden Is to Blame for the Rapid-Testing Debacle
The FDA, unlike virtually everything else Biden concerns himself with these days, is actually under the purview of the president.
Meet Jennifer Strahan: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Primary Challenger
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a political and moral embarrassment for Republicans ever since she won a primary in the summer of 2020 in Georgia’s 14th congressional district. The conventional wisdom is that Greene’s deep-red district loves her antics, making her politically invulnerable. But the conventional wisdom is wrong, or at least premature.
How Biden Blew It
It is tough to find a modern presidency that has collapsed as swiftly as this one.
Good Riddance to Build Back Better
Joe Manchin has likely delivered the coup de grâce to President Biden’s signature legislation.
The Public-Health Mafia
Led by boss Anthony Fauci, they have exploited the Covid pandemic to orchestrate a campaign of fear and intimidation to consolidate their power.
Capitol Riots Happened Because Trump Lied
The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied.
Covid Mandates Should Be Ignored
What Biden and other officials are doing is like sticking a 15 mph sign on the highway.
Putin Shouldn’t Be a Right-Wing Hero
Rich Lowry: The sources of Putin’s appeal to populists, from Pat Buchanan to Tucker Carlson, are manifold. They admire his strength in advancing Russia’s interests. They think he has the right enemies, namely the same establishment that also scorned Donald Trump…The problem is that all of this is abstracted from the reality of Putin’s rule, which makes him one of the world’s most dangerous men and an unworthy steward of the Russian people’s interests.
Non-Citizen Voting Proposal Is Wrong for NYC (and Everywhere Else)
A proposal in New York City to give non-citizens the right to vote should be rejected.
Jussie Smollett: Funniest. Trial. Ever
Smollett’s hate-hoax fairy tale did expose how gullible Americans can be when you yell “racism.”
The Supreme Court Should Return Abortion to the States
It won’t satisfy everyone, but it would be more democratic and sensible than looking to nine justices to dictate a policy from on high.
The American Health-Care system Is the Best in the World
Our system needs many fixes, but when it matters most, there’s no better place to get sick.
LeBron James Is King of Hypocrisy When It Comes to China
LeBron James and other NBA stars are happy to lament supposed American justices. But (almost) all of them are strangely silent about Chinese tyranny.
Can the Biden Administration Stand to Have Fauci Much Longer?
Fauci went on the talk shows this weekend to say nothing useful about the new variant of the disease, but to lecture the world to prepare for the imposition of the same policies that failed to contain the previous, less-infective variants.
New Disney Film Panders to Latinos
Kyle Smith: Encanto is so shoddily engineered that I picture marketing executives sitting around telling one another, “Meh, it’s for the Latino market. It doesn’t have to be that good.” And so it isn’t.
San Francisco Is the Nation’s Shoplifting Capitol
Maybe someday San Francisco will stop favoring criminals over law-abiding businesses. It ought to be possible to operate a retail store in one of America’s largest and most iconic cities, but this most basic commercial proposition is in doubt in San Francisco.
Kamala vs Buttigieg Would Be GOP’s Dream 2024 Primary
If this is really the choice Democrats would face should Biden decline to run, they’d better hope he bounces back and is prepared to serve again.
The Collapse of Kamala Harris
Charles Cooke: That America’s voters disdain Harris as much as they obviously do gives me an extraordinary amount of hope for our future.
Inflation Is a Dagger Aimed at Biden’s Presidency
The eroding buck is going to stop with him.
Adam Schiff Keeps Lying
Adam Schiff confidently and frequently asserted that it was a fact that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Every time he did, it was a lie.
The Pivot to Forever Masking Is Starting
We are reaching the point that many of us predicted and feared. Let’s kill it with fire.