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Idle bluster, abject ignorance, bald-faced lies, and thin-skinned petulance characterized Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The same, alas, are characterizing his presidency. But it’s one thing for the media to cover his campaign as little more than reality TV. It’s quite another for them to cover his presidency as such. Yet that’s precisely what they’re doing… Read more.
Hispanics and Haitians migrating to America Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door! It’s arguable that these final lines of Emma Lazarus’s sonnet, “The New Colossus,” constitute… Read more.
Whenever friends parrot the cliché about Americans being too proud to do menial jobs, I cite the coal miners of West Virginia or the lumberjacks of Wisconsin to disabuse them of their ignorance. It never works. Of course, they can be forgiven their ignorance given the prevailing narrative about the refusal of Americans to do… Read more.
