Commentary

A day doesn’t go by that I don’t believe we’re going to hell in a handbasket.  Yet, I continue to be optimistic.

President Biden ignores the significance of the anniversary of D-Day, but tells our troops in the UK that global warming is our biggest threat.

Vice President Harris seeks to find the root cause of the migration and the illegal crossing of our southern border without visiting that border; responding to her failure to visit there with one of her nervous laughs, intended to pass it off as unimportant.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez tweets of her disappointment in Harris’ message to Guatemalans, “do not come, do not come,” while her radical colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar, crazily equates the human rights of the United States and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban.

To Hell via higher education.  As if the inclusion of critical race theory in college and universities isn’t bad enough, we just learned of a lecture, “The Psychopathic Problem of White Mind,” given at Yale University last month in which Dr. Aruna Khilanani spoke of her fantasies of murdering white people. 

At one point in her lecture, Khilanani described her fantasy of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a f***ing favor.  There are no good apples out there.  White people make my blood boil.”

Yale was quick to issue a disclaimer that Khilanani, who has degrees in psychiatry and psychoanalysis from Columbia, Cornell and New York University, was not on its staff at Yale.

THERE’S MORE – During an appearance on MSNBC’s left-leaning Morning Joe show, Mara Gay, a member of the New York Times editorial board, spoke about the need to separate “Americanness” and “Whiteness:”

“I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed.  I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with expletives against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just (as) disturbing.  Essentially the message was clear – this is my country.  This is not your country.  I own this.”

Or course, the New York Times retorted with a statement that “(her comments) have been irresponsibly taken out of context.”

HER REMARK ABOUT THE FLAG was a topic right up the alley for comment by the “ladies” of “The View.”  Prompted by Whoopi Goldberg, the lightweight co-host Sunny Hostin eagerly jumped in with, “You have in many respects the former disgraced, twice impeached, one-term president to thank for politicizing the American flag.”

How is honoring the flag politicizing it?

Recalling the sight of Confederate flags flying alongside the American flag during a trip to North Carolina, Hostin said it sent a white supremacist message.  She added that when she sees Trump flags alongside flags with stars in a circle, “I feel threatened.”  How utterly ridiculous.

THEN THERE’S THIS – Susan Goldberg, editor-in-chief of National Geographic, felt compelled to ask her readers to participate in her Race Card Project, inviting them to submit, in six words, their experience with race. 

She claims it came to her after experiencing a difficult year, having conversations with friends and colleagues.  She is apparently getting some backlash with the way she signed-off her letter with “Race Card: White, privileged, with much to learn.”

Why is she doing this?  What will she do with the thoughts of her readers?  The magazine, with a rather meager circulation, primarily covers places around the globe, aimed at travelers, and known for its outstanding photography.

Elections Have Consequences

Biden won, and the stories above are the result of the Biden administration’s determination to convince Americans that they live in a country laced with systemic racism.  The media and professors are more than happy to carry Biden’s water.

SPEAKING OF CONSEQUENCES – RINO Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and her fellow Senator, Dan Sullivan, who voted to confirm Debra Anne Haaland to be Secretary of Interior, giving her 51 YEA votes, are now in court, fighting her decision to pause Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling until still another environmental impact analysis can be conducted.

Lesson learned?  I doubt it.

The political controversy over drilling in ANWR has been ongoing since 1977, and overturning the administration’s decision is not likely, despite the appeals of the senators, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Alaska’s residents, who receive dividends from a permanent fund partially funded by oil and lease revenues.

AND FINALLY, I would be remiss if I didn’t comment on First Lady Jill Biden’s tweet of a photo of her working at the president’s desk on Air Force One over the caption, “Prepping for the G7.”

Former first ladies have accompanied their husbands on trips and took advantage of those opportunities to speak on issues important to them, but judging by the size of that briefing book in the photo, she’s prepping for the president.

I used to wonder why she didn’t counsel Ol’ Joe not to run.  She had to know it was more than he could handle. The photo generated tweets suggesting that he was napping, having had his glass of Ovaltine.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.