One wonders whether Joe Biden had the self-awareness to notice last week that so few of the 40 world leaders in the virtual room for his two-day âclimate summitâ were wearing a mask. Biden, as seen on numerous video snapshots, appeared at times to be the only masker there. Weâre told by the always-helpful fact-checkers that he wasnât, but he was nonetheless the leader of a tiny and embarrassingly conspicuous minority. (COVID, for the record, is not a computer virus â it canât leap through the ether and nail us from afar.)
What, though, must those other world leaders have thought about the American president? Hadnât he already been vaccinated? (Answer: yes.)
Douglas Andrews
There was a speech last night, and it was a good one. It was presidential through and through; it was forceful, optimistic, and upbeat; it brought us together as Americans; and it reminded us of why ours is still the greatest nation on earth.
Oh, and Joe Biden also spoke.
To say that South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott merely upstaged the president last night is to miss out on the enormity of the task: The brief rebuttal from the opposition party
always pales in comparison, even when an accomplished and eloquent speaker is at the mic. All we remember about Marco Rubio, for example, was him reaching for that water bottle. No, for majesty and spectacle, thereâs simply no beating an American presidentâs speech to a joint session of Congress.
Senate Democrats recently introduced a bill to address the supposed rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. This narrative was given popularity by Democrats and the Leftmedia as they sought to pin the blame on Donald Trump, who accurately noted that the coronavirus originated in China. It has since been used as a cudgel against anyone who correctly points out that China was responsible for releasing the pandemic onto the world. To suggest such a thing is to promote anti-Asian hatred, the Left dubiously claims.
So it comes as little surprise that Democrats â keen on pushing the false narrative that America is a nation awash in white supremacy and systemic racism, and therefore must be entirely restructured from the ground up in order to bring about âjusticeâ â aim to paint Republicans as anti-Asian if they donât jump on board this hate crime train.
Trump, GOP lawmakers direct ire at MLB over All-Star Game decision
April 3, 2021
Hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet may still be ok, but baseball is on the outs with some prominent Republican politicians.
MLB announced Friday that it will pull the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia, because of the Peach State s controversial new voting law, which critics, including President Biden, say will lead to voter suppression.
The move even prompted one of former President Donald Trump s rare post-Twitter statements. Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta because they are afraid of the radical left Democrats, he wrote Friday night before issuing a warning to major corporations based in Georgia. Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with free and fair elections. Are you listening Coke, Delta, and all?
March 3, 2021
Credit.Damon Winter/The New York Times
Believe it or not, the Republican Party is ideally positioned for at least the next two years. As the opposition party, it will not be expected to offer solutions to the country’s myriad problems, much less introduce substantive legislation. It will not be expected to do anything except what it does best oppose the Democratic administration and the Democratic Party.
But the spirit of opposition that much of the Republican Party feels so at home inhabiting exposes the Achilles’ heel of movement conservatism, the weakness that stands to doom the party’s efforts to “move on” from Donald Trump. While many who proudly call themselves conservatives agree about what conservatism is not, there is no such consensus on what conservatism