Breaking History: A White House Memoir By Jared Kushner (Broadside Books, 512 pages, $35) Jared Kushner’s new memoir discusses an April 2020 conversation between former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci: Trump wanted to end lockdowns during the COVID-19…
A reader who calls himself BillyBob left a comment after my recent op-ed in The American Spectator on the Never Trumpers’ attack on the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Georgia, Herschel Walker. Here is what BillyBob wrote: Liz [Cheney] is actually a…
Warp Speed: Inside the Operation That Beat COVID, the Critics, and the Odds by Paul Mango (Republic Book Publishers, 234 pages, $22) “WE HAVE A PROBLEM IN CHINA.” On Friday, January 3, 2020, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers…
In Virginia’s 2021 gubernatorial contest Democrat Terry McAuliffe based his campaign on the fiction that Republican Glenn Youngkin was a “Trump wannabe.” McAuliffe lost in a state Biden had carried by 10 points. Six months later, in the special election…
Why did it take 49 years to overturn Roe v. Wade, and who deserves credit for its demise not taking another 49 years? The different questions receive the same general answer: Republicans. Melissa Mackenzie emphasizes the former president’s role. “Because…
After a hard-fought and nationally recognized series of Ohio GOP primary battles, incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine successfully held off populist challengers with a reported 48.1 percent of the vote, while award-winning author turned Republican Senate contender J.D. Vance has been…
Sunday Boo-hoo. Three days ago, I turned 77. That’s OLD. I keep trying to make a list of what I have learned, and here are a few of the key items I have soaked up. It is great to be…
Friday Cognitive dissonance is the phenomenon where you see two or more phenomena that are supposed to go together but really are wildly different. For example, if you saw a bloody beachhead on Peleliu and right on the sand in…
This is the last full day of the Trump term in office. It breaks my heart. I was not a fan of his when he was in the primaries. I thought he was crude and boastful — and he was….