Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
THE BIDEN APPROACH to winning his party’s nomination is questioned in an opinion piece by Michael Gerson. His announcement speech sent a “mixed message,” according to Gerson.
On one hand, he tells of Biden’s rhetoric, stating that he “briefly trespassed into the histrionic” while talking of a threat to America “unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime,” while setting out on a “battle for the soul of this nation.”
But Biden’s answer to Trump’s four years he refers to as an “aberrant moment,” is a return to normalcy – “everyone is treated with dignity,” as he “reasserts our core values (as he sees them),” and “to remember who we are.”
“Essentially, to make America decent again,” says Gerson, as he questions, “does a backward-looking theme emphasize his limits as a candidate? Can (his) party win with the infectious decency of Uncle Joe, or does it need to match Trump’s primal appeal with the moral equivalent of war?”
(Cartoon courtesy of Gary Varvel.)
WHILE MUCH OF WASHINGTON IS IN A TIZZY over the investigation of the investigators in the DOJ and FBI led by Attorney General Bill Barr, over at Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Ben Carson is quietly, so far, going about his business of enforcing the law in the process, helping poor Americans.
He has discovered that some 32,000 public housing units are being occupied by people in the country illegally, while poor American citizens are being discriminated against and have been on waiting lists for years.
In a move to correct this injustice, Carson has unveiled a meaningful step toward protecting our nation’s forgotten men and women and promoting rule of law, according to Newt Gingrich writing in an op-ed.
You can expect the open-borders crowd to object to Carson’s effort, but if they don’t like what he’s doing, they will have to change the law, a change the GOP senate will oppose.
OH, MY – A writer of a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic did not approve of President Trump’s proposed immigration reform requirement that immigrants applying for one of his Build America merit visas be educated and fluent in English. “By these rules, Jesus would be denied entrée,” he wrote
BUT SOME WRITERS give serious thought to their letters. A woman from Flagstaff, Arizona, commenting in opposition to a piece previously published in support of late-term abortion, she wrote: “Snatching a viable, healthy, full formed human being from the womb and terminating that life is murder, pure and simple.”
IT MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE WATER at MSNBC. You may recall Chris Mathews, who reportedly cried over an Obama speech and compared him to Jesus, after hearing Obama speak – “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”
Following Pete Buttigieg’s town hall on Fox Sunday, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough went over the top by comparing his political impact to that of Bruce Springsteen on rock and roll. He recalled critic John Landau saying, “I have seen the future of rock and roll and it is Bruce Springsteen.” Then followed with, “Well, I’ve seen the future of the Democrat Party and its Mayor Pete.” OMG
THE LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY is provided from William McGurn’s Wall Street Journal column, “The Tales of Parson Comey,” in which he concluded with “Ralph Waldo Emerson never met Parson Comey, but plainly he was well acquainted with the type: ‘The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.’”
May God bless the United States of America.
