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The headlines alone give you a feel for topics currently on the media agenda, but I’ll give you a little back up to go with them.
The story behind The Spectator headline, “Are Kamala Harris’s days as VP numbered?” delves into the Washington whispers of a cunning plan to shunt Kamala on to the Supreme Court in order to bring in a more popular vice president, someone better prepared to take over should Biden win in 2024.… read more
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On 17 occasions during President Biden’s press conference remarks Wednesday, he sought our attention, saying “look,” as if what followed would be something of note. It usually wasn’t.
Among them were, “look, we’re not there yet … look, I’m a capitalist … look, I didn’t overpromise … well look, as you know … look, I’ve laid out … look, I still contend … look, think of what we did … look, what I said …” and “look, I made it clear …” but perhaps “look, maybe I’m kidding myself …” was the most telling.… read more
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Part of my job in keeping tabs on what leftist newspapers are palming off on their readers is the need to do due diligence on opinion writers I don’t recognize. It’s important to know something about their background.
Most papers will give you a bit of that at the end of their column. … read more
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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
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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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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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Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren saw the selection of entrepreneur Elon Musk by Time magazine as its Person of the Year as an opportunity to accuse him of not paying taxes and “freeloading off everyone else.”
Liberals use the “fair share” disinformation in their futile attempt to paint the wealthy as un-American, when they are simply using the tax code to avoid paying more than required, and they hire financial advisors to assist them.… read more
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“What it is, it’s outrageous. Obviously, it cannot continue. But the fact is that there is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from I don’t know where, maybe you do, and we cannot have lawlessness become the norm.”
That was Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to a media inquiry regarding San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s announced plan to crack down on criminal behavior, referencing smash-and-grab robberies and open-air drug use.… read more