(Tom McAllister) As we approach the hundredth day of the Biden “presidency,” any logical, patriotic American has to wonder what more would someone do if they were trying to systematically destroy every ideal and virtue our nation has stood for in its history. From porous borders to suppressed citizen freedoms, unbridled spending yet throttled economic growth, inciting divisiveness while promoting untethered morality, our enemies must imagine themselves in an Old Milwaukee commercial, “It doesn’t get any better than this.”
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A Tale of Two Vaccines
(Erwin Haas, M.D.) Two elderly spinsters, Grace Eldering (1900-1988) and Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) lived together in a small house in Comstock Park, a down-market suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan. They developed the first successful whooping cough vaccine.
Kamala’s Not Looking So Good Lately
(Kirstin Stein) Kamala Harris hasn’t been looking well lately. She gave a maskless interview to CNN’s Dana Bash a week ago, and she looked much more jowly and wrinkly than she did just three months ago, when she took the oath of office. She has a bit more junk in the trunk now, and gone are the purple, maroon, and ivory suits; it’s black or navy all the time now, the better to hide the extra jiggly bits. A lot of her sentences now begin with “Well, I mean,” signaling the intellectual vacuity she’s settled for, as though she’s completely given up on trying to sound smart.
Americans Exiled within America
(Fay Voshell) “Exile” conjures images of banished figures like Napoleon, who languished on the island of Elba, rendered powerless by isolation.
How Wokery Dominates Society
(Michael Curtis) We live in a continually changing world, with new concepts and ways of developing practical arguments and evaluating moral truths on race, sex, and sexual issues. Today, those ways are seen through the prism of racial justice, emphasized in colonial and post-colonial studies, Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, queer studies, gender studies. These are part of the present obsession with race and sex. At the heart is the pessimistic, postmodernist contention critical of the possibility of objectivity, questioning whether there can be reliable knowledge about a reality that exists independently of human perception.
Democrats Blaming Everyone but Themselves
(Brian C. Joondeph) An old expression notes that when you point one finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you. This aphorism may have originated in the Bible when Jesus said, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
China is Using an Old Communist Playbook
(Timon Cline) In February 1946, George Kennan, then-deputy chief of mission in Moscow, responded to a request from the Treasury Department to detail the Soviet situation. The USSR had recently declined to take its supposed place in the postwar international order by declining to endorse the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, among other things.
MASKS DON’T WORK: Examining the Relationship between COVID Death Rates and Population Density
(Spike Hampson) Calculation of simple rates for new COVID cases and deaths has revealed that mask mandate states have performed no better than states in which masks have been voluntary. Advocates for the mandate are looking for a confounding variable that — when properly controlled — will reveal the heroic performance of mask mandates as life-saving actions taken by enlightened governments. Almost certainly, they will settle on population density as the knight in shining armor designated as Defender of the Mandate.
Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson: History Repeats Itself
(Andrew W. Coy) If the Progressives (socialists, globalists, Deep State) were hoping President Trump would go quietly into that dark night, they are sadly mistaken. If the Progressives were praying that Trump would cower in obscurity after November of 2020, their prayers have not been answered. If the Progressives were dreaming that Trump and the Trumpsters would never be heard from again, their dreams have become a nightmare.
The Misguided Call for Reparations
(Larry Alexander) The city of Asheville, North Carolina approved a measure giving its black residents certain benefits as reparations for slavery. Councilman Keith Young, who is black, referred to the “hundreds of years of black blood” that built the city. The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island issued an executive order to explore reparations for slavery. Governor Newsom of California has pledged to create a commission to consider reparations. And the Democrats’ bill in the House, H.R. 40, would establish a commission to study reparations, including “compensation” for slavery for “living African-Americans.” Indeed, many politicians are urging serious consideration of reparations for slavery. But really serious consideration would reveal both the flaws in its premise and the harm that it would produce.
Pelosi Hijacks Everything for Her Agenda — Even the Holocaust
(Rabbi Aryeh Spero) One would expect the commemoration of something as tragic and sacred as the Holocaust be done in a respectful manner and not be manipulated for political goals. Such was not the case this week with Nancy Pelosi’s statement sent out on Holocaust Remembrance Day; known in Israel as Yom Ha’Shoah. Instead, she exploited the murder of six million Jews by Hitler and his regime into a manifesto of Democrat false talking points and the demonization of millions of Americans associated with conservatism and who voted for President Trump. It was sacrilege and shameful.
Fixing Racism by Being Racist?
(Brian C. Joondeph) Racism is, by one definition, “A belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”
Cancel Culture and Identity Politics are the Road to a One-Party State
(Daniel Greenfield) America is at war. This time the enemy isn’t on some distant battlefield or hiding in a barren cave thousands of miles away. Instead, the enemy is not only here, but it’s ruling over us.
Federal Government at the Heart of ‘Vaccine Passport’ Development
(Ben Bartee) The Biden administration — arguably the most extremist executive regime in terms of its threat to civil liberties in recent history — is currently engaged in a coordinated effort to develop and introduce “vaccine passports” to the American public:
When Black Lives Matter and Matter and Matter…
(Jeremy Egerer) I believe that black lives matter — but when it comes to Black Lives Matter, a little proportion goes a long way in society. You have to realize how small you are to be a big deal in my book. You have to play by the rules like the rest of us, or we have no choice but to consider you a menace.