Opinions

How long can America’s goodness survive?

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Given how flawed human nature is, America has been a remarkable moral achievement. This is the truism that separates the wise man from the fool. This is also the truism that separates the left from the anti-left.

Maxine Waters, a racial insurrectionist

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of the loudest mouths leading the impeachment circus against former President Donald Trump over the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a brazen racial insurrectionist. The 16-term Democrat from South-Central Los Angeles has been pouring verbal gasoline and tossing rhetorical Molotov cocktails into the public square since the 1992 L.A. riots.

U.S. has appalling trade deficit with China

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The United States ran a merchandise trade deficit of $310.8 billion with the People’s Republic of China in 2020, according to data released last week by the Census Bureau. That was the largest merchandise trade deficit the U.S. ran with any country last year.

Waffling over hydroxychloroquine has cost many lives

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I should state at the outset that were it not for doctors, I would either be paralyzed or dead. I owe my mobility and probably my life to wonderful physicians. However, I will now state with equal certitude that the American medical profession as a whole and many individual doctors are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans -- very possibly, more than that.

Facebook turns 17, but no one is celebrating

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Seventeen years ago, a Harvard University sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social media website he built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning.

Senator aims to alter college football

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Two young men grow up in the same neighborhood and spend four years at the same high school taking the same classes and playing on the same winning football team. Both are good students and dedicated, hardworking athletes. But one is a journeyman offensive lineman, while the other is an all-state quarterback. In their senior year, they both decide they want to attend the same prestigious private university that plays in the Football Bowl Subdivision -- and where the tuition and board and room exceed $60,000 per year.

Trip to Vietnam reconfirmed hatred of communism

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Ten years ago, I wrote a column reflecting on my reactions to visiting Vietnam. Given the lack of revulsion to, and even flirtation with, communism (or its more mildly named version, socialism) among many young Americans, it is worth revisiting.

Team Biden is destroying working-class jobs

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President Joe Biden’s new Climate Envoy, former Sen. John Kerry, is telling highwage workers in the oil and gas industry, whose jobs are at risk under Biden’s green energy schemes, that they should retrain to install solar panels. This is right out of the Obama-Biden 2009 playbook when they used federal stimulus funds to retrain workers for jobs with failed green energy companies such as Solyndra. Demand for those new green energy jobs never really took off. Even today, more than 10 year later, the average wage for a solar panel tech is $16.57/ hour. That is less than half the average wage in the oil and gas industry, $37/hour. When asked what his

Most important question about the 2020 election

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Since the day after the 2020 presidential election, I have said I am agnostic with regard to whether the election was honestly or dishonestly decided. The primary reasons for my agnosticism are the usual ones. The anomalies: