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I don’t care if Alysa Liu is woke

As the nation celebrated American figure skater Alysa Liu's stunning victories at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, there's a particular collection of embarrassingly sad online dwellers who just can't understand why conservatives might cheer on Liu. Why? Well, because she is, apparently, woke. For those who just don't get it, let me explain. In the world of sports in which Alysa Liu is thriving, we (the big bad conservatives) simply don't care about your politics if you are proudly representing our great nation -- which Liu undoubtedly is -- and you leave your politics at the door -- ...

How a party offends its voters

Gavin Newsom won't be the Democrats' 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African American vote. So how's he courting it? Promoting his new memoir to a largely black audience in Atlanta, the California governor decided to forge a connection by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading. "I'm like you," he said. "You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy" and "you've never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech." Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn't assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with the same ...

Love for sale: Qatar’s cash comes a-calling

Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank used to mock those pretending not to be influenced by cash funneled into their pockets. "I can't be bought," Frank put it, "but I sure as hell can be rented." These days, it's Performative Primary Politics 101 for Democrats, catering to a left-tilting ...

Another exercise in nonpartisan cooperation ended sadly, as Donald Trump undoubtedly planned. Every year, the nation's governors meet with the president to discuss common concerns. Trump had initially banned two Democratic members of the National Governors Association from attending -- ...

Jesse Jackson never lost hope in human redemption, and neither should we

Having covered the late Rev. Jesse Jackson off and on since the 1960s, I am still amused to receive an email from one of my many critics who wants me to know that you don't have to be white to find something to criticize about Black people, as if I didn't know. In fact, I've made an impressive collection of what I call "I'm not racist, but..." letters, postcards and emails from readers -- many of them well-meaning, I should mention -- informing me that I should appreciate white people like Jesse Jackson does. One quote I still receive occasionally is from Jackson himself, spoken in an ...

Survey data indicates Americans are less optimistic

Gallup released 2025 survey data this month from its National Health and Well-Being Index showing a significant drop in Americans' optimism for the future. Taken from four quarterly surveys conducted last year, a total of 22,125 respondents were asked to "imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top." They were then asked to select the number that represents where they presently stand. Slightly over 59% of those in the sample size believed their lives would be prosperous in five years. While this number may not seem disturbing at first, Dan Witters, ...