Just when I begin to think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has escaped the gravitational pull of his party, he crashes back to earth with a thud. Grounding Kennedy this time was affirmative action. Last Thursday, he weighed in on…
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage…
There is the leader of the Democrat Party, President Joe Biden, making much of Juneteenth with a party on the White House lawn. He says this: To me, making Juneteenth a federal holiday wasn’t just a symbolic gesture. It was…
Michelle Obama appears to be the next Democrat figurehead. In a May 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein give voice to a fear that has been haunting those deranged by the very thought of Donald Trump:…
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and other progressive — read “Democrat” — legislators, Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), are out there demanding $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans. Bush said at a press conference that there…
“As California Governor (1967-1975), Ronald Reagan coined the term ‘welfare queen’ as racist coding,” claims the official report of the formal state of California Reparations Task Force, created by Gov. Gavin Newsom. “This terminology conjures stereotypes of single Black women…
This last week, President Joe Biden spoke at Howard University — one of America’s “leading, historically Black institutions,” as the university self-describes — in college-commencement-speech form. And, in typical form, the president who views the world through the lens of racial…
In a November 2021 press conference, Grio reporter April Ryan asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a question that seemed to make sense to him, if to no one else. “Can you give us the construct,” Ryan asked, “of how you…
San Francisco is ground zero for reparation demands. Its Board of Supervisors voiced “enthusiastic support” for a list of proposals, including $5 million for every eligible Black adult and guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years. Supervisors…
