Buying everything but impeachment
Forgetting the lesson from the boy who cried wolf, Democrats have lost their grip on the public's attention toward their incessant schemes for dumping President Trump.
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Colin Kaepernick, professional ingrate
When the Minnesota Vikings take on the Seattle Seahawks on Monday night, it will wrap up Week 12 of the 2019-20 NFL season. That's three-quarters of the way through the 16-game regular season, and Colin Kaepernick remains a quarterback in search of a team that will hire him.
Bloomberg out the gate
If it were happening in Russia or Ukraine, we could imagine the script the media would be reciting: "An oligarch with a media empire and deep connections to the leading party in the lower assembly is running for president. He is spending tens of millions of dollars of his own money to secure victory. He is silencing the media."
Double trouble with China and North Korea
As China goes, so goes North Korea. It's an obvious takeaway from the recent contentious behavior of the Asian giant that is imitated by its junior partner. Satirist Mark Twain once said, "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Based on his thorny dealings with the troublesome duo, President Trump would likely say the same about a bad example.
Spreading fear and outrage over PFAS
Mark Ruffalo, who is probably best known for playing Dr. Bruce Banner in the movies set in the Marvel Comics Universe, testified before Congress last week about the alleged dangers posed by PFAS, a group of chemicals some have alleged are poisoning the nation's groundwater.
Sharing Kanye's journey
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars." So said Dostoevsky, and as the nation gropes through the murky era of recrimination marked by presidential impeachment, Kanye West's invitation to join in his dazzling affirmation of faith is lighting up the buzzsphere. Detractors, perhaps blinded by the light, say it's all about the Benjamins. To the contrary, it's all about new beginnings.
The Democrats' divisive debate
Just as it had been in each of the four previous 2020 Democratic presidential debates, the proposed Medicare For All takeover of the nation's health care and health insurance systems was hotly contested in their fifth face-off Wednesday night in Atlanta.
EDITORIAL: Playing telephone with Ukraine
A straightforward message can emerge unintelligible when whispered around a circle. Much more distorting than a children's game, apparently, is the free-flowing art of diplomacy. Destruction-minded Democrats hope to deploy disagreements over every murmur and recollection of a phone call to evict President Trump from the White House. Reasonable people may disagree over meaning, but only the senseless would angle for impeachment.
The Democrats' richness of embarrassment
What does it say about the Democratic presidential field of 18 (give or take) wannabes still vying for the party's 2020 nomination when two more are only now jumping into the race, just days ahead of the fifth candidates' debate on Wednesday night [Nov. 20] in Atlanta?
The profound anti-Beijing Hong Kong protests
The Chinese government may have succeeded in ensuring that the protests wracking Hong Kong have not spread outwards onto the Mainland. But one thing is for certain: Many months into the anti-Beijing demonstrations that have riled the capitalist entrepot, Beijing has manifestly failed to pacify Hong Kong. Indeed, if nothing else, the protests against Communist rule appear only to be gaining in intensity, if not size.
Cartoonish times for climate change
Laughter may be the best medicine, but it likely won't heal the headaches endured by worryworts troubled over the state of nature. At a time when climate-change crusaders are struggling to maintain their hold on the public's concern for the cause, their earnest efforts are getting punked. Indignity is vexing, but at least it beats indifference.
Terminating DACA
In October 2010, responding to demands from the open-borders lobby that he change immigration law unilaterally, President Barack Obama declared, "I am not king. I can't do these things just by myself."
Impeachment prejudice
That beauty is in the eye of the beholder goes without saying. A reminder may be needed, though, that meaning is in the ear of the listener. That's because words filtered through an inner universe of preconceived notions can wind up appallingly distorted. Americans judging the words of presidential impeachment witnesses must focus on firsthand facts and discard prejudiced opinions fashioned from the biases of President Trump's detractors.
Bolivia's return to a democratic state
Evo Morales had a problem. It was 2016, and the three-term Bolivian president, an ardent leftist and the first indigenous president the South American nation ever had, wanted badly to run for a fourth term in 2019. But Bolivia's constitution had term limits, and Mr. Morales was barred from running for and serving another term.
No need for hand-wringing in the GOP
Largely overlooked amid Virginia Democrats' (understandable) gloating about capturing control of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time in 20 years and narrowly winning the Kentucky governorship, there were election results — from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Arizona and Mississippi and back to Kentucky — that should help take Republicans off suicide watch.
Another blood-soaked year in Mexico
Is Mexico a failed state? With the horrific slaughter of a family of Americans living there earlier this month — and a host of other bad news to boot — signs point to yes.
Iran's anniversary provocation
Anniversaries are an opportunity to commemorate something special that mustn't be forgotten. In Iran, there is a long memory for something especially malign — the 1979 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the beginning of a 444-day hostage crisis. The current mullahcracy has chosen the 40th anniversary of that jarring day to announce a rapid acceleration of a nuclear program that threatens the United States along with the rest of the world. Not satisfied to add insult to injury, the rogue regime threatens to aggravate injury with nuclear annihilation.
More their loss than Trump's
The last time the baseball team from Washington won the World Series, Calvin Coolidge was in the White House.
The sad tale of Argentina continues
Cry, yet again, for Argentina. The South American nation — rich in farmland, durable institutions and an educated population — has, for nearly a century, been an economic basket case. With the results of its recent presidential election, that sad tale looks set to continue.
EDITORIAL: Elizabeth Warren's shell game
When it comes to the shell game, the best advice is not to play. Elizabeth Warren claims her new "Medicare for All" proposal presents the nation with a winning health care system without raising middle-class taxes. It's a sleight-of-hand plan that would shuffle costs around while worsening them in the process.
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