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President Trump has been yelping all over the media recently about how China hid the outbreak of what this congenital racist calls the “Wuhan virus.” Except that you’d be forgiven for dismissing his yelps as just more lies. After all, according to The Washington Post, he has told over 18,000 lies since taking his oath… Read more.
Malignant incompetence and serial bungling define not only Trump’s war against Covid-19 but every aspect of his presidency. This is why it’s all too easy to believe reports that he dispatched Rambo wannabes on a knucklehead mission to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In “Trump Indicts Maduro. Putin Says, ‘Go Ahead, Puppet, Make My Day!’”… Read more.
It’s an oxymoronic feature of chronically poor countries that the politicians who govern them are often their highest paid professionals. Nowhere is this more the case than in Nigeria. Public shaming forced rich corporations in America to return millions from this country’s Covid-19 Payment Protection Program. Remarkably, the same forced rich politicians in Nigeria to… Read more.
Four years ago, I pleaded for the (liberal) media to stop derailing Hillary’s campaign with irrelevant stories about her “stupid e-mails.” What do you think FOX News, the BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other news organizations would do if Assange were leaking hacked e-mails of their anchors and reporters – purportedly to expose bias in the… Read more.
In my March 20 commentary, I laid out a four-point plan to fight this coronavirus. Here is what I included as the third point: Tell state and local officials to let the American people get back to work and resume their normal lives. (Not least because I can already smell the smoldering of a French-style… Read more.
