Darkest Hour centers around the conflict of whether Winston Churchill, at the low point of the war from his perspective in May of 1940, should negotiate/capitulate to Hitler, or fight on against all odds. We all know the basic contours of this history. While the expected dramatic liberties are taken, the essential thrust of the […]
The acrimony surrounding Trump’s call to the Black widow of soldier Sgt. La David T. Johnson killed in Niger demonstrates many truisms about race relations in a society dedicated to multiculturalism and leftist identity politics. Trump, along with regular Americans, would be well advised to take note. I’ll take it for granted that readers will […]
This article was completed just before the latest turn in the Russian collusion saga regarding Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with the Russian lawyer. I fear that the coherence of the article will be the least of the fallout from what is perhaps the strangest turn yet in this matter. Ultimately, I still maintain that there […]
Lord, what would the Founders say if they read the letter from the Congressional Black Caucus to President Trump indicating their desire to “educate” him on all things relating to—what else—the Black community? It is one thing to enfranchise a group in our representative government; but to be condescended to by them in this manner? […]
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign. New York: Crown, 2017. The left, Clinton, and the media are defiant, and refuse to learn anything from the 2016 presidential election — root causes, messaging, or anything else which would hint at self-awareness. They still want us to believe that the Russkies did […]
First of all, one can hardly call Sean Spicer the most effective White House Press Secretary: he lacks the one quality a spokesman for the President needs; namely, he is not articulate. He bumbles and stumbles over his words to an extent I have not witnessed by previous press secretaries, who have been nothing if […]
I don’t want to say that the revelation of the identity of the perpetrator of multiple bomb threats against Jewish schools, community centers and museums is “funny,” because of course bomb threats are nothing to joke about. And if such threats were made by someone “on our side,” which is rarely the case, it would […]
