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The Good Life: 1860, 2020 Are Years Of Politics Of Hatred

I wish I had not decided to read a biography of Jefferson Davis. It reminded me that the hatred of political opponents was used to justify the killing of political opponents in our Civil War. The venom of Congress in 1860-61 is eerily reminiscent of the venom within Congress these days. The 309 men in Congress in 1860-61(there were no women) would not talk to members whose political philosophy was different. It is not that they could not talk. They talked, and talked, and talked as much as today’s members of the House and Senate talk. Indeed, if cable television and the 24-hour ...

Schiff And The Dems Hit A New Low

While the president and his administration are working tirelessly to get critical medical supplies and life-saving equipment to doctors, nurses, hospitals and patients amidst a global pandemic, guess what Democrats are doing? Its leadership is drafting bills to assemble yet another Congressional committee, on taxpayers dime, to investigate the president and his response to the national crisis. You read that right. Instead of working shoulder to shoulder with our commander in chief to save lives and resuscitate our shut down economy, serial liar and conspiracy theorist Adam Schiff, ...

Parenting Is Different Now

Earlier this week, our daughter Cait texted a photo capturing a moment of her juggling her job and her two young children at home. At first, I noticed only Cait’s hand on the laptop, but as I studied it I saw the reason for snapping the picture. Two-year-old Ela was wedged next to her, her tiny left hand wrapped around her mother’s pinky as she typed. “Working from home,” Cait texted, followed by three broken heart emojis. It takes so little for working mothers to feel guilty for wanting more. For just a moment, I wanted to respond by sending a prized photo from her ...

Manipulation Through Racial Hoaxes

We black people are so convenient and useful to America’s leftists. Whenever there’s a bit of silencing to be done, just accuse a detractor or critic of racism. A recent, particularly stupid, example is CNN’s Brandon Tensley’s complaint that the “Coronavirus task force is another example of Trump administration’s lack of diversity.” Tensley said the virus experts are “largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who’ve dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.” I’d like for Tensley to tell us just what racial or sex ...

Americans Rally In Times Of Crisis

Democrats are beside themselves; after President Donald Trump’s consistently inconsistent and uneven public pronouncements on the seriousness of the coronavirus, moving in one 24-hour period from “something we have tremendous control over” to our “toughest enemy: the invisible enemy” and limiting all crowds to fewer than 10, his poll numbers have gone up. How, they ask, could this be the case when the president’s leadership of this “war” has been start-stop, don’t-worry-be-happy? The answer is found in history. At times of crisis — even crises in which the sitting ...

Trump’s Remarkable Turn To Single-Player

Hospitals struggling to treat waves of very sick people now face a new threat: millions of uninsured Americans pounding at their gates. How can the hospitals afford to treat them, even if they have the beds? The obvious response was for President Donald Trump to open early enrollment in the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 11 states that control their own Obamacare exchanges had already done that (rather than make people wait seven months for the official sign-in period). Insurers, providers and many Republicans expected Trump to take that step. But surprise: President ...