How to Explain a Sad Presidency Victor Davis Hanson confesses that there are many things to say about Joe Biden’s farewell address, but, for the present, VDH is limiting himself to three items: First, President Joe Biden was copycatting the “warnings of outgoing president and iconic war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower.” About 64 years earlier, […]
Heavy Lifting from Donald Trump
Sweeping Away the Last Four Years President Trump has never been short on verbosity and redundancy, as Noah Rothman notes in NRO. Trump’s Inaugural address might have reminded Americans why they either love him or not. To some, it’s like receiving a surprise gift box, nervous about what’s inside – an exquisite celebration cake or […]
Donald Trump, the Disrupter in Chief
Fortress America The just-elected Donald Trump is to be sworn in this Monday morning. Whether you look at this as a blessing or a curse, it is hard not to admit that Mr. Trump won a clear victory in November. Yet another way to view it, offers to Kyle Peterson in the WSJ, even though […]
Obama’s Favorite List Is Political Propaganda
What Not to Watch Buying into the movie list decreed by former President Barack Obama is akin to succumbing to the “Obama world of snide superiority and condescension,” argues Armond White in NRO: Progressives love Obama for encouraging their disdain for America. And contemporary film culture goes along with the deception by reinforcing its lie. […]
California’s Dresden/Hiroshima
Chickens Coming Home to Roost? “We’ve lived on the same street for 34 years. I don’t know why we got spared,” Bill Simon confessed to the WSJ’s Jason L. Riley. Bill is the son of William Simon, the investor and philanthropist who served as Treasury secretary under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Bill and his […]
US Status Never Improved, Despite Joe Biden
A Weird Mix of Whispering/Firey Shouting During his self-congratulatory speech to the American public Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden bragged about how his tenure improved American status abroad. Victor Davis Hanson signals a time-out on his braggadocio. Has any other recent president done more to weaken the U.S. military under his tenure? The Pentagon suffered […]
A Wake-up Call or Unlucky Timing
Democrat Disconnect: Trump-Proof California The Democrat-run California legislature is involved in a “special session” to focus on “special issues.” Well, those special issues were soon extinguished by news coming out of LA. In a move that Politico tells readers is “the first of its kind in the nation,” California legislature under Governor Newsome is looking […]
Andy Kessler Raps on AI, Ozempic, Snoop Dogg
While LA smolders and residents worry about the Santa Ana winds rekindling destruction in LALA Land, Andy Kessler has worries of his own: smoldering questions in the WSJ: Something Rotten at Apple? Little growth, and earnings per share basically flat since 2021 even with stock buybacks lowering share count. Estimates suggest iPhone unit sales are […]
The LA Foothills: Primed to Burn
Crossing the Threshold At the conservative California Policy Center, Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy, says the LA fires have gotten out of hand “largely due to poor land management.” The horrific destruction is multifaceted, and the Santa Ana winds that blow from the east have little to do with climate change. The […]
A Hellscape in All Directions
High Chaparral: Crisis and Chaos Visit the Hollywood Hills The hills surrounding Los Angeles are dry and bone dry, making them ripe for ignition of high chaparral. The unrelenting fires are being driven by the unrelenting force of the Santa Ana winds. Discrimination? As the sun rose Wednesday, the daunting question was, just how long […]
