Trump and comparably washed-up tennis great Serena Williams should call a joint news conference tomorrow at a Denny’s all-you-can-eat breakfast bar to announce their respective and overdue retirements. He can face-savingly say he’s leaving his party in the capable hands of Mike Pompeo, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and feisty free-speech advocate Nicki Minaj. She can say she’s leaving tennis in the very capable hands of younger, leaner, quicker Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez. Read more…
Where Was Kirk Douglas?
No seasoned Washington hand believes everything Bob Woodward writes. His books sometimes create from anonymously sourced whole cloth conversations and events that never really happened. But if even half of what his latest book reportedly says about Gen. Mark Milley is accurate, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was poised last January to attempt a coup comparable to one led by Burt Lancaster’s power-mad general in a Cold War film classic. And alarmingly, in today’s real-life Pentagon, there was no Kirk Douglas there to stop it. Read more…
‘Righteous’ Drone Strike Exposed. But Post Editors Keep Story off Front Page.
Turns out that “righteous” U.S. drone strike in Kabul after a terrorist bombing killed 13 service members and scores of civilians near the airport wasn’t so righteous after all. Honorably, for a change, several left-leaning media outlets have now exposed the strike as more Biden administration incompetence, but Washington Post editors have kept their reporters’ excellent work off the front page. Read more…
‘My Body, My Choice!’ Unless the Left Doesn’t Like Your Choice.
Remember when the Washington Post and most of the so-called “mainstream” media denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to use the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause to force so-called sanctuary states, counties and cities into compliance with federal immigration law, even though a significant majority of Americans supported those efforts? Yet a Post front-page story today goes in the opposite direction, seeming to celebrate the Biden administration’s comparable reliance on that same clause in a lawsuit aimed at blocking Texas’s new, admittedly draconian if largely unenforceable, abortion law. Read more…
Think WSJ Is ‘Conservative’? Think Again.
Since the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has traditionally supported limited government and largely free markets, many careless analysts erroneously assume its news pages swing conservative, too. But that isn’t the case. And the A section of the paper’s Sep. 7 edition bordered on a parody of left-wing virtue signaling. Read more…
The ‘Sexless Future’ Is Now for America’s Woke, Super-Striving Elites
A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by University of Minnesota psychology professor James Lee spoke to troubling moral and ethical questions arising from fast-evolving medical technologies that could someday soon make asexual reproduction and scale-tilting genetic selection common among those who can afford them. But Prof. Lee doesn’t seem to realize that such a sexless future for America’s elites has already arrived. Read more…
Veterans’ Advocate Joe Mantegna Urged to Help Afghanistan Vets Demand Accountability
A reply to a fundraising email from showbiz notable and veterans’ advocate Joe Mantegna politely urges him to focus in the near-term on Afghanistan vets by helping to amplify their voices as they demand accountabilty from Washington decision-makers for the ongoing debacle in and around Kabul. Read more…
Crumbling, Shrinking New York’s New Governor Seems as Delusional as the Last
New York’s new governor has already signaled her intention to ignore the will of voters who overwhelmingly supported a state constitutional amendment that empowers a bipartisan commission to take the lead in drawing new district boundaries for seats in Congress based on the latest Census data. Her delusional desire is to help Democrats expand their tenuous majority in the House of Representatives. As if.
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‘Requiem for a Heavyweight,’ Part 2
Poised to turn 40, tennis great Serena Williams has unsurprisingly withdrawn from the U.S. Open because she’s no longer sufficiently fit for world-class competition. But rather than bravely announce her retirement with her dignity still fully intact, she seems determined to pursue a comeback fantasy that could mean leaving the court for the last time on a stretcher with an ugly, truly debilitating injury. Read more…
Healthy Children Must Be Prioritized over ‘Immuno-Compromised’ Teachers
Returning from a summer hiatus, Post-deconstruction was disappointed by the Wall Street Journal’s decision to publish a cowardly and misleading letter from an Ivy League philosophy professor who, advancing a straw-man argument in favor of mask mandates for K-12 school kids, suggested “immuno-compromised” teachers risk death without mandates. Of course, no one need risk death; they need only nobly seek a different line of work. Read more…