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  • Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?

    Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?0

    On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had dealt him a pair of aces. The COVID-19 pandemic had reached its apex, infecting a quarter of a million Americans every day. Yet, due to the discovery and distribution of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the incidence

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  • MIT Researchers Admit Anti-Maskers Are More Scientifically Rigorous

    MIT Researchers Admit Anti-Maskers Are More Scientifically Rigorous1

    Upon recounting my bout with COVID to an acquaintance, I was asked if I knew where I might have picked up the virus. When I mentioned my hunch about the source, my acquaintance gasped, then inferred that I and those I caught it from must not have been wearing masks since the virus had spread.

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  • Is COVID-19 Relief Encouraging People Not to Work? Dems Say, ‘No Evidence.’

    Is COVID-19 Relief Encouraging People Not to Work? Dems Say, ‘No Evidence.’0

    “Experts” predicted 1 million jobs would be created in April. The actual number fell far short, at 266,000. Republicans warned that overly generous COVID-19 relief benefits create a disincentive to work. The day before this disappointing jobs report, Bloomberg wrote: In earnings calls and business surveys, executives often blame stimulus checks and generous unemployment benefits

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  • G.I. Joe Goes Woke

    G.I. Joe Goes Woke0

    The U.S. military has gone full woke, and proudly so. For years it has opposed citizen efforts to reverse affirmative action while insisting on the eat-your-vegetables slogan of “Diversity is our Greatest Strength.” West Point currently offers workshops on “White Power at West Point” and “Racist Dog Whistles at West Point” to ensure cadets fully recognize America’s foremost

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  • Judging the Success of a Mother

    Judging the Success of a Mother1

    While in line at IKEA a while back, I glanced at a customer a few lanes over. It was a young mother with one or two children in her cart and several others spread out around her, making a total of five. In other words, she had her hands full. But contrary to the harried

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  • Down the Tubes: The Tax Man Cometh

    Down the Tubes: The Tax Man Cometh0

    Last week I filed my federal and state taxes. The tax preparation service I use here, mostly for backup purposes in case of an audit, informed me by phone that the forms were ready for my signature and that I would owe the federal government just over $1,000. Expecting to pay much more than that,

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  • Closing Basketball’s Racial Gap

    Closing Basketball’s Racial Gap0

    There is a tremendous, unwarranted, unfair, unjust basketball gap that exists between whites and blacks, much to the disadvantage of the former. Simple elementary social justice requires that this divergence be closed as soon as possible; sooner than that if at all feasible. This is a situation that cries out to the heavens for redress.

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  • Time to Plan Mask-Burning Parties

    Time to Plan Mask-Burning Parties0

    As COVID restrictions begin to fall there seems to be a new problem emerging, namely, Americans’ inability to ditch the masks. Masks, it seems, have become a type of “security blanket” for many, reporter Karin Brulliard claims in a recent Washington Post article. She explains how David Díaz, a vaccinated 29-year-old, struggles to go for

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  • Has the Backlash Arrived for Police-Bashing?

    Has the Backlash Arrived for Police-Bashing?0

    Within hours of Saturday’s shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio were on-site. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired captain of the NYPD, and Andrew Yang, who declared:  My fellow New Yorkers … Nothing works in our city

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