President Donald Trump has a constitutional obligation to check his ego at the door when it comes to military readiness. Increasingly, he is failing to do so, and it is having deleterious consequences for the Navy. Trump reacted petulantly to concerns about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. Operating in the Arabian Sea, […]
President Joe Biden’s tenure has been a gift to terrorists across the Middle East, and he isn’t planning on leaving office without one final reminder of that fact. On Friday, Biden’s United States Agency for International Development announced it would shovel another $230 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars into Gaza to “support economic recovery and […]
Transgender athletes are not a “threat to safety or fairness,” according to MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She made the comments on her show Sunday in the context of criticism that Democrats were too extreme on transgender issues, which contributed to their loss on election night. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), for example, came out […]
Marvel’s latest series, Agatha All Along, an offshoot of WandaVision (itself an offshoot of The Avengers), distills the worst cliches of modern entertainment into an unwatchable slog, dragging what could have been an hour’s worth of plot across nine excruciating episodes. The story follows Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), a witch stripped of her powers in WandaVision, now on a quest […]
AMONG DEMOCRATS, POST-HARRIS RECRIMINATIONS HEAT UP. It’s been just three weeks since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the presidential election. The news has been consumed with Trump’s Cabinet picks and plans for a second administration. But among Democrats, there is more than that to talk about. Recriminations and finger-pointing in the wake of Harris’s loss […]
Bank lending is jet fuel for the U.S. economic engine. It is one of the primary sources of capital enabling companies to expand and consumers to obtain loans for homes and cars. But, the Federal Reserve is pushing a measure that would needlessly cut into lending by forcing banks to hold more capital in reserve. Every excess dollar parked in reserve means many fewer […]
Did anyone expect, when they heard the candidate’s announcement at the base of the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015, that nine years later, he would be elected to a second term with sharp increases in Republican percentages from nonwhite people — Latinos especially, but also black and Asian people? Opponents and commentators blandly call […]
All the polls made it clear: The top concern for Latinos is the economy. What did Latinos get from the Democratic campaign? Vague speeches with no concrete solutions. The Harris-Walz campaign repeatedly tried to label President-elect Donald Trump as a xenophobe, believing that accusation alone would be enough to maintain Latino support. It wasn’t. Vice […]
All the right people are angry. This is what MAGA will tell you when you point out that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is an unhinged authoritarian crank. If you point out that Kennedy is a chemtrail truther who believes the water supply […]
It is time to admit that Vice President-elect J.D. Vance was right about the Democratic Party being run by a bunch of miserable, childless cat ladies. Just look at the exit polls. President-elect Donald Trump won married men by 22 percentage points, married women by 3 points, and unmarried men by 2 points. Only unmarried […]
Public sentiment is on the side of the incoming administration under President-elect Donald Trump. On many topics, such as immigration, gender ideology, and homelessness, traditionally left-leaning areas are shifting rightward. The usual Democratic proposals for homeless policy involve “compassionate” means of alleviating their immediate afflictions by providing no-requirement housing, zones for tent cities, or promises […]
