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Biden's Unnecessary Border Crisis
A crisis is a terrible thing to create.
This, nonetheless, is what President Joe Biden has done at the southern border.
His rhetoric during the campaign suggesting an openhanded approach to migrants coming to the U.S., and his early moves to undo Donald Trump's border policies are creating a migrant surge that risks running out of control.
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Alzheimer's Be Not Proud
Editor's note: The word "that" in the eleventh graf should be italicized.
There are a hundred things I could tell you about my late mother that are more important than the disease that caught her in its grip the last few years of her life.
I could tell you about her relationship with my older brother, who has autism, and her deep, lifelong ...Read more
Andrew Cuomo Is Everything The Press Accused Ron Desantis Of Being
Throughout the pandemic, the press has been excoriatingly harsh on a governor who was slow to act, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the elderly, alienated experts and cooked the numbers.
It just thought the governor in question was Florida's Ron DeSantis rather than New York's Andrew Cuomo.
After it has become clear that Cuomo's handling ...Read more
Advantage Trump In The GOP Civil War -- For Now
Well, it's on.
Donald Trump ended his post-presidency silence not with a blast at President Joe Biden, or at the left, or at the House impeachment managers, but at the true enemy -- Mitch McConnell.
The Trump forces aren't forming a third party, but they do want to take over -- or more accurately -- maintain their current grip on the GOP, and ...Read more
Biden Is Too Timid On School Reopening
It's an old political trick to make an easily achievable goal sound vauntingly ambitious in order to brag about it when it's inevitably met.
It takes another level of chutzpah, though, to set out as a target something that has already happened.
The press has portrayed President Joe Biden's goal of reopening the majority of K-12 schools in his ...Read more
Are the classics racist?
It was only a matter of time before Cicero got canceled.
The New York Times the other day profiled Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who wants to destroy the study of classics as a blow for racial justice.
The critique of classics as stultifying and privileged isn't new, but in the woke era this attack is more potent than ever and ...Read more
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