MenuA Darkness Before Dawn for ConservativesThis dark night of America’s soul can’t go on forever.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe PressTwilight Zone vibe characterizes 2021 America for anyone who lived in 1991 America. By staying in place, we all immigrated to a new country going by the same name.The House, with unanimous support from the Democratic caucus in which half opposed the same legislation 28 years ago, passed a bill on Thursday seeking to grant statehood to Washington, D.C. This follows the of the Green New Deal on Tuesday and new court-packing legislation unveiled...…MenuA Darkness Before Dawn for ConservativesThis dark night of America’s soul can’t go on forever.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe PressTwilight Zone vibe characterizes 2021 America for anyone who lived in 1991 America. By staying in place, we all immigrated to a new country going by the same name.The House, with unanimous support from the Democratic caucus in which half opposed the same legislation 28 years ago, passed a bill on Thursday seeking to grant statehood to Washington, D.C. This follows the of the Green New Deal on Tuesday and new court-packing legislation unveiled...WW…

MenuJane Fonda, Cheerleader to Ho, Che, and Jim Jones, Can’t Be Friends With Jon VoightBut he’s not who she needs to apologize to.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressdon’t know what happened to Jon,” Jane Fonda told Howard Stern about Jon Voight in a Wednesday interview. “We were pretty close. He was my best friend among Hollywood people. We won Academy Awards together for Coming Home.”But now, because the star of Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and The Champ sees the world through a new lens, Fonda rules out the possibility of any friendship. “I couldn’t, no,” she of holding a...…MenuJane Fonda, Cheerleader to Ho, Che, and Jim Jones, Can’t Be Friends With Jon VoightBut he’s not who she needs to apologize to.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressdon’t know what happened to Jon,” Jane Fonda told Howard Stern about Jon Voight in a Wednesday interview. “We were pretty close. He was my best friend among Hollywood people. We won Academy Awards together for Coming Home.”But now, because the star of Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and The Champ sees the world through a new lens, Fonda rules out the possibility of any friendship. “I couldn’t, no,” she of holding a...WW…

MenuWill the Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up?It would be a first.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressoe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday. Despite the freshman senator’s deficiencies exuding personal warmth vis-à-vis the others on his shortlist, the former vice president chose Harris over Nurse Ratched, Almira Gulch, and Alexis Colby.Except Joe Biden did not really choose. Hashtags did. When the waitress limits your order to the top left corner of the trifold menu, do you or does your waitress select what you eat for lunch? #MeToo and...…MenuWill the Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up?It would be a first.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressoe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday. Despite the freshman senator’s deficiencies exuding personal warmth vis-à-vis the others on his shortlist, the former vice president chose Harris over Nurse Ratched, Almira Gulch, and Alexis Colby.Except Joe Biden did not really choose. Hashtags did. When the waitress limits your order to the top left corner of the trifold menu, do you or does your waitress select what you eat for lunch? #MeToo and...WW…

MenuThe Losers Rewriting American HistoryIf at first your leftism doesn’t succeed — topple a few statues and try again.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressor of all sad words of tongue or pen,” John Greenleaf Whittier , “The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ ”What might have been if the mobs did not skip history class?For one, vandals in Whittier, California, would not have spray-painted “BLM” and “F— Slave Owners” on a statue of the town’s namesake. Whittier, a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an Electoral College member who twice cast his ballot for Abraham...…MenuThe Losers Rewriting American HistoryIf at first your leftism doesn’t succeed — topple a few statues and try again.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressor of all sad words of tongue or pen,” John Greenleaf Whittier , “The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ ”What might have been if the mobs did not skip history class?For one, vandals in Whittier, California, would not have spray-painted “BLM” and “F— Slave Owners” on a statue of the town’s namesake. Whittier, a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an Electoral College member who twice cast his ballot for Abraham...WW…

MenuBlack Tires Matter“Bicycling” pedals for social justice.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressow do you know so much about cycling?” an excited Mr. Pither (Michael Palin) asks Mr. Gulliver (Terry Jones) in “The Cycling Tour,” one of the few skits to devour the entirety of a Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode.The question follows Mr. Gulliver’s vivid descriptions of the cuisine casualties from Mr. Pither’s latest road accident. He preternaturally knows how “the lemon curd tart had sustained some superficial damage” and “detached from the pastry base,” and divulges that he...…MenuBlack Tires Matter“Bicycling” pedals for social justice.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressow do you know so much about cycling?” an excited Mr. Pither (Michael Palin) asks Mr. Gulliver (Terry Jones) in “The Cycling Tour,” one of the few skits to devour the entirety of a Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode.The question follows Mr. Gulliver’s vivid descriptions of the cuisine casualties from Mr. Pither’s latest road accident. He preternaturally knows how “the lemon curd tart had sustained some superficial damage” and “detached from the pastry base,” and divulges that he...WW…

MenuShould People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?A prima donna thinks it’s okay.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressari Weiss, a liberal hired by the New York Times strangely to bring balance to its left-wing opinion page in the wake of the paper’s misreading of the 2016 electorate, publicized her resignation this week.Thirty-something editor Weiss 30-something publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger that “the lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of...…MenuShould People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?A prima donna thinks it’s okay.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressari Weiss, a liberal hired by the New York Times strangely to bring balance to its left-wing opinion page in the wake of the paper’s misreading of the 2016 electorate, publicized her resignation this week.Thirty-something editor Weiss 30-something publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger that “the lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of...WW…

MenuKanye West v. Planned ParenthoodHe has an intuitive understanding of the loathsome Margaret Sanger.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presslanned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the devil’s work,” rapper Kanye West opined in a wide-ranging with Forbes.Planned Parenthood, and its journalistic votaries, struck back. Bustle.com his words “utterly false,” claiming that “if Planned Parenthood clinics were planted by anyone, it definitely wasn’t by white supremacists.” Billboard.com West’s charges by pointing to Politifact’s “pants on fire”...…MenuKanye West v. Planned ParenthoodHe has an intuitive understanding of the loathsome Margaret Sanger.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presslanned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the devil’s work,” rapper Kanye West opined in a wide-ranging with Forbes.Planned Parenthood, and its journalistic votaries, struck back. Bustle.com his words “utterly false,” claiming that “if Planned Parenthood clinics were planted by anyone, it definitely wasn’t by white supremacists.” Billboard.com West’s charges by pointing to Politifact’s “pants on fire”...WW…

MenuThe Statues They Left StandingThey do no honor to the America we celebrate this July 4th.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe monuments the vandals leave standing shine as bright a light on their benightedness as the ones they topple.Several weeks back a San Francisco mob removed statues of Union General Ulysses S. Grant, California founding father St. Junipero Serra, and “Star Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key but left the signs for Carlton B. Goodlett Place, the street that gives the iconic San Francisco city hall its address, untouched and intact.Goodlett...…MenuThe Statues They Left StandingThey do no honor to the America we celebrate this July 4th.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe monuments the vandals leave standing shine as bright a light on their benightedness as the ones they topple.Several weeks back a San Francisco mob removed statues of Union General Ulysses S. Grant, California founding father St. Junipero Serra, and “Star Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key but left the signs for Carlton B. Goodlett Place, the street that gives the iconic San Francisco city hall its address, untouched and intact.Goodlett...WW…

MenuThe Age of the Progressive CannibalWill preemptive conversion to puritanism save a lot of sorry careers?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressf cannibalism as a spectator sport does not strike you as in bad taste, then get your human-flavored popcorn ready. The appetizers devoured this week to appease the Great and Good God Woke suggest a gluttonous main course to come.No comedian did more to push Saturday Night Live further and faster on its moralizing, politicized track than Tina Fey. Whereas Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, O. J. Simpson, and other pop culture...…MenuThe Age of the Progressive CannibalWill preemptive conversion to puritanism save a lot of sorry careers?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressf cannibalism as a spectator sport does not strike you as in bad taste, then get your human-flavored popcorn ready. The appetizers devoured this week to appease the Great and Good God Woke suggest a gluttonous main course to come.No comedian did more to push Saturday Night Live further and faster on its moralizing, politicized track than Tina Fey. Whereas Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, O. J. Simpson, and other pop culture...WW…

MenuSocial Justice Isn’t Everything, It’s the Only ThingHysteria now rules, and the racist in you will soon enough be discovered.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presslack Lives Matter differs from past American mass movements from which it claims lineage. It represses rather than liberates.Activists do not demand their rights. They come for your rights.Paramount among the rights they regard as wrongs? Free expression, specifically, the ability to issue criticisms — real or perceived, overt or implied, conscious or unconscious — of Black Lives Matter or even to do something its...…MenuSocial Justice Isn’t Everything, It’s the Only ThingHysteria now rules, and the racist in you will soon enough be discovered.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presslack Lives Matter differs from past American mass movements from which it claims lineage. It represses rather than liberates.Activists do not demand their rights. They come for your rights.Paramount among the rights they regard as wrongs? Free expression, specifically, the ability to issue criticisms — real or perceived, overt or implied, conscious or unconscious — of Black Lives Matter or even to do something its...WW…