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The Most Revealing Moment of the Debate
In "The Wizard of Oz," the stentorian power of the great Oz is revealed as a fraud when Toto the dog (how apt) pulls back the curtain to reveal a squat, middle-aged man speaking into a microphone. Oz's power was all artifice.
On Sept. 10, Kamala Harris pulled the curtain to reveal a shallow, insecure, addled bully so easily baited that he ...Read more
What Are We Conserving?
When my friend David French -- New York Times columnist, pro-life evangelical, and lifelong conservative -- announced that he would be voting for Kamala Harris, it was like dropping a Porterhouse steak amid a pride of lions. The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg wrote a rebuttal, asserting, among other things, that "endorsements trigger an instinctual ...Read more
The Man's Man vs. the Man Child
If Kamala Harris becomes the first woman president, her first accomplishment could well have already happened -- elevating and honoring the positive side of masculinity.
Tim Walz, whose politics are to the left of most Americans and certainly most swing voters, has been welcomed not as a box-checking, progressive pick, but as a Midwestern dad ...Read more
We Have One Healthy Party
Within minutes of President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 race, Sen. Tom Cotton leaped onto X to declare that "Joe Biden succumbed to a coup by Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Hollywood donors, ignoring millions of Democratic primary votes. Donald Trump took a bullet for democracy."
Radio host Erick Erickson was even more creative, ...Read more
It's Time for Biden to Put Country First
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." -- Proverbs 16:18
President Joe Biden, who earned our respect and affection over the past four years, is now trying our souls. In an interview on a Philadelphia radio show, he mumbled that he was proud to be "the first Black woman to serve with a Black president." Later, ...Read more
How Much Would You Gamble on a Biden Comeback?
One of the saddest fables people comforted themselves with over the past eight years was the one about the strength of American institutions: The voters could elevate an unfit, malevolent demagogue, but our checks and balances were robust; our institutions would prevent any serious damage.
Over the course of these years, one institution after ...Read more
Donald Trump Versus the 10 Commandments
The governor of Louisiana just signed a law that will require all public classrooms in the state -- from kindergarten to universities -- to post the Ten Commandments "on a poster or framed document at least 11 inches by 14 inches ... in easily readable font."
For the first time since Reconstruction, Louisiana has a Republican governor and ...Read more