Watching the long slog of the second night of the Democrats’ convention, a famous Winston Churchill line came to mind: “Take this pudding away — it has no theme!”
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A Low-Energy Virtual DNC
It was the opposite of stirring, motivating, thrilling, exciting. By the time the two hours were over, America was so dehydrated it needed a saline drip.
Keep Politics Out of the Race for the Coronavirus Vaccine
If going into November, it seems clear that the Trump administration has fast-tracked a drug that can in short order deliver us from the devastation of the lockdowns, giving us our lives and our children’s educations back, it will massively help the president at the ballot box. And it should. These are the kinds of accomplishments upon which we judge presidents.
Kamala Is an Underwhelming VP Pick
Would Harris have gotten the spot if men had been considered and acceptable? Merely to ask is to cast doubt on her. The selection was even more tilted because it increasingly became clear that the veep candidate had to be not only a woman, but also black.
In a Second Term, Trump Could Build on His Foreign-Policy Successes
Trump can leverage earlier successes with friends as well as foes to expand American influence without entangling us in quagmires. For example, Trump could build a new alliance to contain China by bringing new attention to the pandemic’s origins, Beijing’s human-rights abuses and its serial cyber theft.
Peddling the Idea that “All White People Are Racist” for Profit
The wholesale intellectual fraud that is “white fragility” has so infested our culture that Oprah Winfrey, the world’s first female black billionaire, is criticizing America as hopelessly and intractably racist. For this we can thank the white academic Robin DiAngelo, whose book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” has become a textbook of liberal orthodoxy…
Can Any Liberal City Resist the Spread of Portland’s Disease?
Portland has seen 60 straight nights of violent unrest, and now it’s starting to spread: Saturday was a national night of “solidarity,” with demonstrations in multiple cities in support of the Portland goons. Yes, goons: Shooting off mortar-style fireworks, hurling rocks and bottles, shining lasers in officers’ eyes, taking power tools to the fence around the courthouse area: All of it belies any claim of “peaceful protests.”
What’s Really Vulgar Is AOC’s Fake Outrage
America is suffering through a pandemic, riots, a violent crime wave, a recession and record unemployment, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens-Bronx) wasted an hour of the nation’s time on feigned outrage in Congress over an alleged insult she didn’t even hear.
It’s Not Fascism to Protect Federal Property from Riots and Revolutionaries
There’s no doubt that President Trump wants to use this civil decay in blue-governed Portland as a political weapon in his re-election effort. But could any president ignore seven weeks of street-level chaos in a city of 650,000, the country’s 26th largest?
Biden’s Disastrous Plan for America’s Suburbs
He wants to force suburban towns with single-family homes and minimum lot sizes to build high-density affordable housing smack in the middle of their leafy neighborhoods — local preferences and local control be damned.
The Family That Owns the NY Times Were Slaveholders
Michael Goodwin: It’s far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.
Bari Weiss Exposes How the NY Times Has Gone Astray
She lays bare a hostile, coercive workplace and describes incidents and insults that reveal how the Times is the same bully in-house that it is to those on the outside who don’t subscribe to its warped views.
Mount Rushmore Speech Was Trump at His Best
He’s back! President Trump’s brilliant Mount Rushmore speech Friday laid out a winning campaign theme to restore national optimism. Of course, his media antagonists fell over themselves to find fault with it.
Woke Censorship Is Basically a Superstitious Cult
The woke shamans are defining and enforcing a new symbology. They insist that their spiritual sense is better attuned than anyone else’s and will try to excommunicate anyone who says otherwise.
Let NYC Residents Vote on Teddy Roosevelt Statue
The board’s assumption is that vast swaths of New Yorkers feel offended, even threatened, by the statue. But do we know if that’s, in fact, true? While the statue’s supposedly problematic nature has been discussed for some time, it has never been some enormous point of contention in the Big Apple.
Canceling “Cops” and Columbus Is No Response to George Floyd’s Death
Between indiscriminate protesters and eager-to-look-woke corporations, the country’s seeing a whole lot of foolishness in response to George Floyd’s death.
Lefty Pols Have Put Cops Everywhere in Peril
Thanks to the hysteria being stoked by the media and Democrats hoping for electoral advantage, police are being killed and injured and abused to avenge the death of a man half a country away.
The George Floyd Riots Are the Price of Liberalism
The Minneapolis police force is the creature of a city that has had Democratic mayors for almost 50 years. As former Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox News over the weekend, “Don’t elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe.”
Twitter Needs to Fact-Check Tweets from Prominent Liberals
This week, for the first time, Twitter “fact-checked” one of President Trump’s opinions and redirected users to coverage from that paragon of fairness and objectivity, CNN (don’t laugh).
You Can’t Mask the Biden Mess
Joe Biden looked ridiculous wearing a Michael Jackson mask and sunglasses that covered most of his face on Memorial Day. It was his first outing in more than 10 weeks from his Delaware basement and should have been an opportunity to project strength and hope for the campaign ahead. Instead, it was a total downer.
Trump Is Right to Take Jab at Jeff Sessions
Michael Goodwin: In hindsight, the plot against Trump was breathtaking in its boldness and venality. For Sessions even now to claim he did the right thing is sheer idiocy. If he felt so strongly about recusal, then he should have resigned because Trump deserved to have a fully functioning AG. Instead, he got Rosenstein, whose appointment of Mueller and his role in the dishonest FISA applications reek of conflicts and errors.
End New York City’s Lockdown Now!
Open the city. All of it. Broadway shows, beaches, Yankees games, the schools, the top of the freakin’ Empire State building. Everything. New Yorkers have already learned to socially distance. Businesses can adjust.
Get Ready for Obamagate to Change to ObamaBidengate
Trump is the world’s greatest counterpuncher and he won’t play defense only. The entry of the Russia-Flynn scandal into the mix gives the president a big new hammer. Count on him to use it.
It Looks Like Obama Ordered Up a Phony Russiagate Scandal
Russiagate is now a complete dead letter — but Obamagate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?