The Kamala Conundrum: Why Democrats Are Stuck With Her
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom wants desperately to run for president — and now rather than later. After all, Newsom, for reasons I discuss in my new book, “As Goes California,”...
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We’ve Got a Country to Save
Democrats push the “America is systemically racist” lie because they want blacks to feel angry, oppressed and discriminated against. What’s the upside? It guarantees Democrats get a near-monolithic black vote. Democrats...
Pro-Life: The Political Disadvantage
Polls suggest Republicans fared poorly during the 2022 midterms over the issue of abortion. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting the matter back to the states where it belongs,...
Dear Trump Haters: Can You Contain This Fire?
One can trace former President Donald Trump’s indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg back to the media/Democrat belief that Trump’s 2016 election was illegitimate. Sure, some, like Hillary Clinton, questioned...
A Nation Divided and a World in Turmoil
A happy, upbeat friend does not watch television news, whether national or local, does not read a newspaper and avoids discussing politics, religion or even sports. Self-employed, he found out about...
Arrest That Man — Crime to Follow!
Former President Donald Trump, citing “illegal leaks” from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, posted the following on social media: “…WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN...
Ego and Greed
I took a flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and was picked up at the airport by a black driver. His name is Davis. He looked mid-20s, but it turned out...
White Man Down: Frustration Is Not Racism
About Scott Adams, the white male creator of the (once) popular “Dilbert” comic strip, The Washington Post wrote: “On his Feb. 22 episode of ‘Real Coffee With Scott Adams,’ the creator...
Evil Fox News Versus “Trusted CNN,” Part 2
Last week, we discussed a recent CNN Saturday Michael Smerconish show, where the host attacked Fox News for supposedly promoting former President Donald Trump’s “false conspiracy theory” that the 2020 presidential...
“Evil” Fox News Versus “Trusted CNN,” Part 1
While I regularly appear on Fox News — CNN and MSNBC rarely ask — I do not and never have worked for Fox. One recent Saturday morning, I watched the CNN...
President Biden Claims GOP Wants to “Sunset” Entitlements: What About Clinton, Obama, and then-Sen. Biden?
During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, he got booed after accusing “some” Republicans of seeking to “sunset” some of the so-called entitlements[SP1]. Biden said: “Instead of making the...
Racializing the Death of a Black Man by the Police, Part 2
Last week we discussed how many on the Left considered the death of a black suspect, Tyre Nichols, following a beating by five Memphis black cops, an example of police anti-black...
Racializing the Death of a Black Man by the Police, Part I
It became national, indeed, international news that five Memphis police officers grabbed, punched, beat, pepper-sprayed and stun-gunned a black suspect, named Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital. A picture...
Obama Warns About the “Raw Sewage” of Disinformation — Ignores Democrats’ Own Garbage
In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with...
Black Man Dies Following His Arrest — Examine the Media Coverage
A black man from Washington, D.C., named Keenan Anderson resisted arrest while visiting Los Angeles. To subdue him, Los Angeles police officers tased him several times. He later died of cardiac...