Criticisms of Trump’s coronavirus response are sickening
It’s a unique set of characteristics showing that President Trump understood early the need for decisive measures such as travel restrictions on China, which he imposed in January.
Yet...
US GDP is one economic indicator coronavirus hasn’t hit
The damage to the US economy from the coronavirus outbreak could actually look less severe in the statistics than it really is because of what the illness will do to international trade.
Washington’s birthday was celebrated during his presidency, successors hated it
Simple gratitude should suffice for reason to celebrate the third Monday in February by its official name, Washington’s Birthday, rather than by its popular one, Presidents’ Day.
But if...
A crash in the stock market would be Democrats last-ditch effort to topple Trump
Impeachment didn’t work. And neither did spying on the president, which got them to impeachment but not to removal from office.
The Russian investigation flamed out. And removing Trump through...
Why Americans don’t need to panic over the coronavirus
“Do not let fear or panic decide your actions,” a Centers for Disease Control official urged Friday. Those are words of wisdom Americans would do well to remember now that Health and...
Again, regarding Trump’s impeachment trial, read the transcript!
Long before Democrats finished making their marathon impeachment case Friday night, momentum had deserted them. The loops of repetition had gone from annoying to unbearable and the wild assertions got even wilder as their...
Democrats’ ‘unfixable’ extremism uses Trump as an excuse
For much of the last three years, the impeachment of President Trump seemed inevitable. The left refused to accept his 2016 victory and remained determined to end his tenure.
When he...
Trump’s takedown of Soleimani has Iran utterly off its evil game
The Iranian response to the killing of Qassem Soleimani seems to have been a mix of extreme internal discombobulation — witness the funeral stampede, the apparently accidental downing of a passenger plane — and calculated prudence.
An ominous sign from Queens’ new DA
Incoming Queens DA Melinda Katz is vowing to clean house when she takes office in January, dismissing holdovers from Richard Brown’s near-30-year tenure. Take it as an ominous sign.
Katz hopes...
Donald Trump’s ‘they’re after you’ tweet says it all
On its face, a tweet President Trump sent last week is fairly benign. It doesn’t mock anyone, isn’t personally nasty and hasn’t caused any hair-on-fire controversy.
Yet it is powerful in...
