Courting black voters: Trump should double-down.
Donald Trump, at a 2016 campaign speech in Michigan, became the first Republican presidential candidate in modern times to overtly court black voters.
Civil society under siege.
Here in 2020, the elected polity of one of the prettiest cities in the country stands complicit in the breakdown of the social order.
Another bad week for the truth.
Most of the media, most of the entertainment industry and almost all of the professoriate would have you believe that George Floyd’s death is part of an epidemic of murder committed against innocent, unarmed African American men by racist police officers.
The media should tell the truth — about themselves.
The only sensible thing for the media to do now is just admit to the bias and be proud of it.
Jefferson should be concerned.
In the past four years, things have happened in the highest precincts of our national government that at one time we would have never imagined.
Absence of trust.
There are two institutions in our country that cannot operate effectively in the absence of public trust. Both institutions – acting almost as if in concert – have aggressively forfeited that trust.
No solutions.
Less appreciated than it should be is the fact that government at every level – with no operation of any legislature or really any semblance at all of representative government – assumed micro-level control of our daily lives.
Abundance of malice.
A small group of high-ranking Washington insiders is guilty of what is perhaps the most brazen political misconduct in our history.
COVID-19 and the blue state blues.
(Blue) states were in desperate financial trouble long before COVID-19.
Made in China.
For 30 years, presidents and political leaders of both parties have led us around the fence on the subject of China.
Hard experience.
We choose to accept the risk of disease entering the country via illegal immigration. We don’t have to.
What’s the mortality rate of economic collapse?
Having imagined the mortality attendant to a runaway coronavirus pandemic, have our policy leaders taken the time to also imagine the mortality attendant to a shutdown of the American economy?
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