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The end of a scam

How appropriate that the Biden presidency is ending with an act of self-dealing that he and his allies insisted, with great righteousness, would never happen. Joe Biden was always a scam, and his pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is just the latest evidence. No one should have believed Biden’s flagrant lie that he wouldn’t pardon Hunter for his tax and gun crimes and other potential wrongdoing. The president has a long record of dishonesty, about his own biography (which blew up his first presidential campaign in 1988) and especially about the family influence-peddling ...

The problemed nominee

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. Hegseth left a well-paid Wall Street job to deploy with the Army National Guard to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, and then to Iraq shortly afterward. He then worked for military nonprofits before joining Fox in 2014. There are some real problems with Hegseth’s nomination. First, he failed to disclose an incident with police to the Trump team that related to a purported sexual assault. It seems clear there was no sexual assault, but Hegseth should have raised it and did not. Second, his tenure ...

Three Januarys: All ye need to know

My father and I, discouraged at the election over the holiday, opened a book of poetry I brought along to the house. Somewhere we traveled was back in time to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration on a bright snowy day on Jan. 20, 1961. Almost unbelievably, Kennedy asked New England poet Robert Frost to compose and read an original poem for the high-noon hour in front of the country, so ready for a change. (A heavy storm is coming straight toward us.) The white-maned wintry Frost praised the young president as heralding “The glory of a next Augustan age ... A golden age of poetry and ...

Let’s curb the kangaroo court of sources

The anti-Trump media have already congratulated themselves for destroying the Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general and are now attempting to destroy the Pete Hegseth nomination for secretary of defense. Vetting the records of cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a nomination based on hit pieces stuffed with anonymous sources. Someone with responsibility at media outlets should ensure that their hit pieces include some sources who are named. Networks who eagerly spread anonymously sourced hit pieces are also ...

Monopoly on the Black vote is over

Dean of the nation’s political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election. The headline that emerged from that discussion was “Donald Trump’s Rainbow Coalition,” noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation’s Black vote seems to be over. If this is true, and it indeed seems to be, the implications for the political dynamics of our nation’s future are profound. In 2024, Trump picked up 13% of the Black vote compared to 8% in 2016, and 21% of Black men voted for Trump. Also, among Black voters, as in ...

End sanctuary-for-migrants madness

There are over 660,000 illegal migrants already convicted of felonies or facing charges who have come across the southern border and been released into the U.S., according to newly released federal data provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some are in jail — on the taxpayers’ tab, of course — having been nabbed for committing more crimes once they got here, but many are walking free, spreading their criminality across the nation. Over 58,000 of these known criminals have come to New York City alone, including 1,000 known members of South American gangs, like Tren de ...