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While I prefer to devote my commentaries to a single subject, today I have gone to my stack of stuff for material I have been saving to share with you.
LEAVE IT TO TOM FRIEDMAN, the tired New York Times columnist, to come up with an idea for 2024 that perhaps only he alone could concoct.… read more
Regular readers know that I don’t make a practice of publishing full transcipts of speeches, television interviews or press conferences, choosing instead to take excerpts from them to use in my commentaries. However, I felt the Senate Minority Leader’s response to President Biden’s over-the-top speech was called for, and I wanted you to read his defense of the Republican Party.… read more
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By now, you must have noticed that the left is diverting its scare tactics over climate change, systemic racism and the viruses to make you believe there’s a new threat. We are in danger of losing our democracy and we need to fear domestic terrorism.
During his Summit for Democracy last month, President Biden referred to the struggle as “the defining challenge of our time,” noting that democracy was in retreat in the U.S.”… read more
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It has been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but except for last month’s tribute to the late Sen. Bob Dole, we haven’t seen much collegiality in Washington.
The one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021 breaching of the Capitol could have been a unifying event, but Pelosi & Company had other ideas, stemming from her formation of select committee to investigate the protest, and designed to paint Republicans as white supremacists out to dismantle our democracy going into the midterms.… read more
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You probably heard the speeches and saw the candlelight vigil commemorating the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021 breach of the nation’s Capitol.
It was over-the-top leftist theatrics, beginning with Vice President Harris’ ridiculous comparison of that day with the day Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 and the day terrorists downed the World Trade Center buildings in 2001 … days “when our democracy came under assault,” she said.… read more
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In Part 1 of my look ahead, I wrote of the mid-December Axios/Momentive survey revealing that more than half of Americans dreaded what was in store for the country, with a third claiming they were fearful of what 2022 would bring.
A subsequent Axios/Momentive survey, conducted between January 1-3, 2022, revealed that 53 percent of adults view America as more divided today than ever before and likely to continue.… read more
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“Let 2022 be the year when we say enough, no more. When we demand more of our nation, our neighbors and ourselves. Things cannot continue as they are. This is not the new normal, we refuse to let it be.” – Ben Domenech, The Federalist
I am an optimist … a glass half-full person … and I hesitate telling you about a recent Axios/Momentive survey revealing that more than half of Americans dread what 2022 has in store for the country, with 30 percent claiming they were more fearful of what 2022 would bring.… read more
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In my December 28, 2021 commentary, I briefly touched on what was a bad year, not only for President Biden, but for America’s well-being, while suggesting that the left would not portray it as the disaster it was.
I could find no criticism of Biden’s open-door policy that permitted a 21-year high flow of migrants to freely cross our border.… read more
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It’s that time of year when the news networks and newspapers do their review of the year in passing as the new year is ushered in. It will be interesting to see how they portray the “C’mon Man’s” first year. They won’t resemble my portrayal, I assure you.
Of course, you will remember how President-elect Joe Biden pledged to be the president who sought not to divide but to unify.… read more
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A NEW CNN/SSRS poll reports that President Biden’s numbers are worse than Jimmy Carter’s at the same period of his presidency. That shouldn’t surprise you.
IN THE LATEST MARIST poll, two thirds of independent voters disapprove of Biden, including half, who strongly disapprove. Just 29 percent of independents approve of his performance.… read more