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The third night of the Democratic National Convention was planned as Ladies Night, but the trophy was taken by a man, former President Barack Obama. If that sounds sexist, so be it. Like he did when we first saw him on the national stage at the 2004 DNC, Obama lit
Immigration
By tradition, the political season begins after Labor Day, but in a year where most other tradition has been turned in its ear, both sides have jumped the gun. Democrats and Republicans are running attack commercials, either on TV or online, and the Joe Biden camp has just finished a
Coronavirus
To me, it is not the number — 100,000 Americans dead — nor the speed, since Feb. 6 in Santa Clara County, Calif. The CDC reported a record high 80,000 deaths from the plain old flu in 2017. Were you aware of that number? I wasn’t, perhaps because it
ICE
The ICE roundup of 680 suspected illegals in Mississippi got quite a bit of play, as expected. When it broke I happened to be watching Shepard Smith on Fox News, who practically came to tears as he described people being “rounded up” and a teenager crying as a parent was
Culture
For more than two decades, some Americans have vilified their presidents. The visceral level of hatred is unsettling to me. George H.W. Bush was strongly disliked by the Left, but the disdain was expressed as ridicule rather than poison, portraying him as a man hopelessly out of touch. The