|Posted: Jan 15, 2021 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.Trending"The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack."So alleged Liz Cheney, third-ranking Republican in the House, as she led nine GOP colleagues to vote for a second impeachment of Donald Trump. The House Republican caucus voted 19-1 against impeachment.House Democrats voted lockstep, 222-0, to impeach in an exercise the solidarity of which calls to mind the Supreme Soviet of Stalin's...…|Posted: Jan 15, 2021 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.Trending"The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack."So alleged Liz Cheney, third-ranking Republican in the House, as she led nine GOP colleagues to vote for a second impeachment of Donald Trump. The House Republican caucus voted 19-1 against impeachment.House Democrats voted lockstep, 222-0, to impeach in an exercise the solidarity of which calls to mind the Supreme Soviet of Stalin's...WW…

|Posted: Dec 15, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.Trending2020 will surely qualify as an "annus horribilis" in the history of the Republic.By New Year's, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst year of the Great Depression.And by the end of December, much of the nation will be back in lockdown, with Joe Biden repeatedly predicting a "dark winter" ahead.Only at the apex of World War II has...…|Posted: Dec 15, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.Trending2020 will surely qualify as an "annus horribilis" in the history of the Republic.By New Year's, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst year of the Great Depression.And by the end of December, much of the nation will be back in lockdown, with Joe Biden repeatedly predicting a "dark winter" ahead.Only at the apex of World War II has...WW…

|Posted: Aug 11, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingSince the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored.Our nation, it was shouted in our faces, is a place where white cops harass, brutalize, assault and kill black Americans regularly and with impunity."Defund the police!" the Black Lives Matter demand went out, to be echoed and...…|Posted: Aug 11, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingSince the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored.Our nation, it was shouted in our faces, is a place where white cops harass, brutalize, assault and kill black Americans regularly and with impunity."Defund the police!" the Black Lives Matter demand went out, to be echoed and...WW…

|Posted: Aug 07, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingWhen Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency after the death of Warren Harding in 1923, a wag remarked that Silent Cal's career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention.Governor Coolidge vaulted to national attention during the Boston police strike of 1919, where, in a stinging letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL, he thundered, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any...…|Posted: Aug 07, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingWhen Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency after the death of Warren Harding in 1923, a wag remarked that Silent Cal's career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention.Governor Coolidge vaulted to national attention during the Boston police strike of 1919, where, in a stinging letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL, he thundered, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any...WW…

|Posted: Jul 10, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingBefore our Black Lives Matter moment, one would not have thought of the NBC networks as shot through with "systemic racism."Yet, what other explanation is there for this week's draconian personnel decision of NBCUniversal chairman Cesar Conde?According to Conde, the white share of NBC's workforce, now 74 percent and divided evenly between men and women, will be chopped to 50 percent.Persons of color -- Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans...…|Posted: Jul 10, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingBefore our Black Lives Matter moment, one would not have thought of the NBC networks as shot through with "systemic racism."Yet, what other explanation is there for this week's draconian personnel decision of NBCUniversal chairman Cesar Conde?According to Conde, the white share of NBC's workforce, now 74 percent and divided evenly between men and women, will be chopped to 50 percent.Persons of color -- Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans...WW…

|Posted: Jul 07, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingSpeaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race.He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message.Standing beneath the mammoth carved images of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, Trump declared: "Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our...…|Posted: Jul 07, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingSpeaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday, and from the White House lawn on Saturday, July 4, Donald Trump recast the presidential race.He seized upon an issue that can turn his fortunes around, and the wounded howls of the media testify to the power of his message.Standing beneath the mammoth carved images of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, Trump declared: "Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our...WW…

|Posted: Jun 09, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingNewly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: "Defund the Police."That new message sits beside the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.She renamed that section of 16th Street "Black Lives Matter Plaza."Still, the messages are less ominous than the chants of protesters in New York after the takedown that resulted in the...…|Posted: Jun 09, 2020 12:01 AMThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.TrendingNewly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: "Defund the Police."That new message sits beside the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.She renamed that section of 16th Street "Black Lives Matter Plaza."Still, the messages are less ominous than the chants of protesters in New York after the takedown that resulted in the...WW…