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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.
People of all stripes have been on media of all types this week marking the following Covid-19 milestone: As of Tuesday evening, there are more than 1,012,000 people in the United States who have or have had the virus, according to a tally from health officials by Johns Hopkins University. At least 58,356 people have died. A… Read more.
No doubt you recall Idris Elba’s sambo-like campaign to play James Bond. I didn’t think he had any professional credibility or marketability left after that. The hypocrisy inherent in his attempt at “cultural appropriation” was as incomprehensible as it was unforgivable. Accordingly, I made no effort to disguise my contempt in commentaries like “A Black… Read more.
When Covid-19 began spreading, democratic countries began granting their leaders authoritarian powers to fight it. But I’ve been sounding the alarm about those powers from the outset. Here, for example, is what I wrote in “Coronavirus: The Worldwide Lockdown” on March 14: __________ Governments from the Americas to Asia are declaring states of emergency. This… Read more.
And you probably thought all that pandemic hoarding of toilet paper was just for lavatorial use. But that’s investing in this time of corona, folks. I just fear the husband will never get enough return on this investment to relieve his wife of that constipated countenance of confusion. Related commentaries: corona and oil… coronavirus thread… Read more.
President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested exploring disinfectants as a possible treatment for coronavirus infections — an extremely dangerous proposition that medical experts warn could kill people. After a Homeland Security official [William N. Bryan] mentioned the ability of disinfectants like bleach to kill the coronavirus on surfaces, Trump remarked on the effectiveness. ‘This notion… Read more.
For Muslims, Ramadan is the month in which the first verses of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, were revealed to Prophet Muhammad more than 1,400 years ago. During the holy month, Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from before dawn to sunset. The fast is intended to bring the faithful closer to God… Read more.
