July 13, 2021 Why the media elite, captured by the Left, are alienating both sides The media, having alienated conservatives for decades, are now distrusted by many on the left for insufficient purity.
July 2, 2021 Trump’s company charged on narrow grounds despite 3 years of investigation The company was not charged for funneling hush money through Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels in an effort to buy her silence about an alleged affair with the boss. All these matters made headlines, DA Cyrus Vance Jr. has been investigating for three years, and obviously didn’t have the evidence for grand jury charges.
July 1, 2021 Pelosi passes Jan. 6 panel in House that’s even divided over the Confederacy How hard could it be to vote to remove some statues from the Capitol honoring those who led a pro-slavery rebellion against America, along with a smattering of White supremacists? But 120 House Republicans fumbled the ball and opposed the measure as distorting history.
June 30, 2021 Pictures of frustration: From a collapsed building to a faltering infrastructure deal If there’s one national need that our warring politicians could agree on, it would be the need to repair and expand our crumbling infrastructure. But in classic Beltway fashion, the arguments are mainly about mind-numbing process and partisan advantage, not the urgency of dealing with roads, bridges, tunnels, rail and airports.
June 29, 2021 Trump denounces Barr over election in latest bitter break with a top aide Bill Barr joins a growing list of high-powered people who fell from grace in Trump World, some because they stood up to the president and some because they turned on him first.
June 25, 2021 DeSantis crusades against liberal colleges, will ask students’ political views There is little question that academia has been a liberal bastion for decades. From left-leaning faculty to students protesting right-wing speakers on campus, conservatives have felt unwelcome at major colleges and universities.
June 24, 2021 Biden moves on guns as surging crime has Democrats on the defensive The spike in homicides and other major crimes is becoming a political albatross for the Democrats, who run nearly all these major cities. And that’s why Biden gave a crime speech Wednesday when he’d rather be focusing on vaccines or infrastructure or just about anything else.
June 23, 2021 From NCAA smackdown to Trump golf course, politics and money rule sports When everyone from Clarence Thomas to Sonia Sotomayor agrees that what college football does is indefensible, it’s been thrown for a major loss.
June 22, 2021 Bill Maher’s woke-up call: Liberal nuttiness is off the rails (and ultimately boring) Bill Maher went off on liberal nuttiness, as he is increasingly wont to do. That doesn’t mean that Maher, who at times is a big-time Democratic donor, doesn’t still rip Republicans to shreds. But he is intellectually honest enough to be repelled by idiocy on the left.
June 18, 2021 Biden praised and pummeled for summit that never matched hype If the assessments of the Biden-Putin sitdown seem all over the map, that’s because they are.