Trump could channel his favorite hobby with some public good that could recoup some of the credit for himself. He could resume rallies among his biggest supporters, but rather than campaigning for himself personally, he should be campaigning to get people to take the vaccine. It would be a legitimate public good that the media would be moronic to oppose…
Publication: Washington Examiner
Trump Doesn’t Sound Like He Wants to Run in 2024
There was something else missing Sunday from his address. There was a certain directness and clear-eyed ambition absent from his remarks, something suggesting that he has his heart set on retaking the White House. He is surely the crowd-pleasing bomb-thrower he ever was, but that is mostly how he appeared Sunday in Orlando: An entertainer, not as a man invested in the idea of running for president.
Idiot Grim Reaper Lawyer to Target CPAC
Daniel Uhlfelder has plans to troll Conservative Political Action Conference attendees this weekend in Orlando, Florida, with a plane pulling a banner that reads, “Welcome Insurrectionists!” Wow, you’ve done it this time, Uhlfelder. Those CPAC attendees will never recover from this.
2021: The Year for Conservative Women
In November, voters elected 30 Republican women to the House. Republican women won 11 of the 15 seats that flipped to Republicans. Now, there are 119 women in the House. 2021 could become the year of brave conservative women. We already have powerful examples.
Garland Must Prosecute Political Violence Vigorously and Consistently
The attack on the U.S. Capitol was a disgraceful incident without any possible justification or excuse. It doesn’t change the fact that antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters’ storming of the Portland federal courthouse was also a disgraceful attack on our republican system and the rule of law.
Buy Anything You Could Ever Want, Except this Book Challenging Transgenderism
Amazon is a place where you can find anything you could ever want, including a rain jacket for your dog. But if you are interested in reading a serious critique of transgenderism, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
What Were the Capitol Rioters Thinking?
The court papers portray the Oath Keepers as a ragtag group living in a delusional world, planning a delusional operation to bring about some sort of delusional outcome. They imagined themselves saving the country with their reinforced vests, helmets, and goggles. It would be the understatement of the year to say that they had not thought things through.
Frozen Windmills Show the Need for Fossil Fuels
Biden and his appointees frequently talk about a clean energy future in which carbon-emitting fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas are all replaced by windmills and rainbows. But that future is a lot colder and darker than they admit.
What Rush Limbaugh Taught Everyone in Conservative Media
Eddie Scarry: It would take a year to list all of the things Rush Limbaugh did for right-wingers in this country, so let’s just go with my favorite: He instilled in us the truth that not only is it OK to be hated by liberals in the national media, but it can be fun!
Trump Owes His Domestic Victories to Mitch McConnell
Despite Trump’s desire to rewrite history, there is zero chance that if Kevin McCarthy or Matt Gaetz were in charge of the Senate that Trump would have gotten a fraction of the judicial confirmations passed that McConnell did, much less the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
One can point to a number of destabilizing and dangerous actions the Chinese Communist Party has carried out in just the last year: its reported cover-up of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, its repressive crackdown and undermining of freedoms provided to the citizens of Hong Kong, and the Chinese military’s incursion of Taiwanese sovereignty.
NY Times Updates Report on Fire Extinguisher Striking Officer Sicknick
The New York Times quietly updated a month-old report about the siege of Congress which perpetuated the idea that officer Brian Sicknick might have died after being struck by a fire extinguisher…CNN reported that reports about Sicknick being hit with a fire extinguisher are not true and that examiners “did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma” as they “struggle to build a murder case” in the officer’s death.
“Hang Pence.” Connecting the Dots on Trump’s Culpability
Trump’s motives were evil. His words and deeds caused the violence to escalate. Especially when the assault was underway, it was foreseeable that his words and deeds would escalate the violence. He bears blame for the attack on the Capitol and the assault on police officers.
Trump’s Unconvincing Impeachment Defense Has Already Cost Him a Senator
The odds of the Senate succeeding in convicting Donald Trump are virtually nonexistent, but the unconvincing impeachment defense put forth by his lawyers may indeed cost him some Republican acquittal votes. After a painful first day of Trump’s second impeachment trial, Sen. Bill Cassidy crucially reversed course, voting that the trial is indeed constitutional despite having voted the opposite way just last month.
The NY Times Kamala Profile Is Why the Media So Often Earns the “Fake News” Title
This past weekend the newspaper published a nauseating profile on Vice President Kamala Harris that was not only gross in how explicit it was in its flattery of a person in power but also in how shameless it was in describing Harris and President in Biden in ways that fly in the face of reality.
Good Riddance to CNN’s Jeff Zucker
While running NBC Entertainment, Jeff Zucker turned Donald Trump into a television superstar. While running CNN, Zucker turned him into a president. Now that the damage is done, Zucker has announced that he’ll step down from the network at the end of the year.
Purging Liz Cheney Would Be Wrongheaded
It would also be monumentally counterproductive for the Republican Party’s political health, for it would signal that the party is a small tent rather than a big one, intolerant rather than tolerant, and more interested in inflicting punishment than in repairing the damage.
Ron DeSantis’s Florida Is the Unsung Success Story of Coronavirus
Perhaps the best example of a large state succeeding amid this crisis is conservative Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Florida. Florida is larger in population than New York, more disproportionately elderly, visited by more potentially infected tourists, and (as of the last census) its population is more concentrated in urban areas. Yet somehow, in spite of all these disadvantages, Florida’s death rate from the coronavirus is roughly half that of the Empire State.
Punishing Vile Lawmakers Is Not Cancel Culture
Punishing a vile politician by a party pulling a politician’s committee assignments, or Congress impeaching a president for committing high crimes or misdemeanors, are not evils or even examples of cancel culture. Instead, they can be necessary correctives.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Brings the GOP Nothing But Baggage
The QAnon-supporting congresswoman has expressed a lot of conspiracy theories about 9/11 trutherism, the Parkland, FL, shooting being a false flag operation, and anti-Semitism. What she has not expressed is any sort of coherent policy agenda past promulgating the lie that the presidential election was stolen from Trump…
Fauci’s Anti-Trump Barbs Undermine His Covid Messaging at a Crucial Time
Anthony Fauci has made it clear that defeating the coronavirus pandemic will require buy-in from everyone. Yet he’s spent the past two weeks positioning himself as an adversarial figure to tens of millions who still support former President Donald Trump.
Baseball Writers’ Misplaced Sanctimony Keeps Curt Schilling from Hall of Fame
The problem is that sportswriters and leagues now refuse to stick to sports. They still love radical Colin Kaepernick despite his paeans to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet when Schilling equates Islamic extremists to Nazis, apparently that’s an unforgivable sin.
The Social Justice Mob Has Arrived at Politico
A prominent conservative was given a small, temporary space to say something at a major publication, so naturally, it was only a matter of time before the group therapy sessions for liberal journalists would commence.
Rupert Murdoch Is Right. “Awful, Woke Orthodoxy” Is Killing the Media
Experienced editors and executives at most of our biggest newsrooms have welcomed that sick ideology, otherwise known as social justice, with open arms. The result is the silencing of any voice deemed to have “privilege” by anyone who claims to be a victim. Murdoch understands what everyone else in the media needs to figure out, too.