National Guards members sent to protect the incoming president from conservative voters during the canceled inaugural activities that nobody would've attended anyway were booted from the U.S. Capitol to a parking garage. Their time in the photography sun had ended, you see.
The inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th president returns the United States to the direction from whence it came. For the tens of millions who voted for him, his ascendance to the White House means the nation is getting back on track. Those who did not dread the U-turn he has vowed to make.
Prejudicial acts by officers are incompatible with police work, and a general consensus exists that some form of police reform is needed. I believe that all fair-minded citizens want all police officers to be held fully accountable for their actions. Adjustments of rules and standard protocols could be helpful. Defunding the police is not only counterproductive, it isn't desired by the overwhelming majority of our population. A real need exists to get into the heads of policemen and -women and into the inherent culture of police work.
If we've learned anything over the past four years, it is that there is no limit to the deceit of the political left. Its members have outflanked civil society.
Thursday marks the first (full) day of the rest of former President Donald Trump's life, but don't expect him to go gentle into that political good night. That's just not his style — or temperament.
Former President Trump is the first American president to be impeached twice. The vote the second time around was 232 for and 197 against, and four no votes. The first impeachment was a partisan "nothing burger" in my opinion. The second one is also a nothing burger because it doesn't make sense. Mr. Trump was impeached by the House without being given the chance to defend himself in the House. He can't be convicted as a private citizen. And criminalizing political speech sets a bad precedent.
When Roger Ailes joined up with Rupert Murdoch to start Fox News as a conservative alternative to the liberal news networks, CNN mocked the competition as, well, hardly competition. It's a bit how Fox, in turn, treated Newsmax TV. And now, the chickens are coming home to roost.
President Biden has signaled his willingness to revive the flawed 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Doing so would reward a hostile dictatorship that has repeatedly reneged on its nonproliferation obligations and pocketed past concessions without moderating its aggressive foreign policy.
By the time you read this, President-elect Joe Biden will have become President Biden, and his predecessor, likely with the Florida sun on his face, will be referred to, at least by the press, as former President Donald Trump.
In "Federal prosecutors file first Capitol riot conspiracy charge against Oath Keeper leader" (web, Jan. 19), writer Jeff Mordock uses the phrase "deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol." Why is such hyperbole allowed? It cheapens your paper and does a disservice to your readers. From such a description, one would expect to see smoke still wafting up from the Capitol and the streets to be clogged with funeral processions. Is this lazy reporting or biased reporting? Is this The Washington Post or The Washington Times?
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