The Week In Pictures
June 24, 2017 — Steven Hayward
I haven’t seen Democrats this dispirited since. . . yesterday. And I haven’t seen Democrats this angry since. . . also yesterday. They lost a special election because the rubes in Georgia just won’t recognize their nobility (though to their credit a few Democrats have openly admitted that their brand is “toxic”), and their complaints that a proposal to control health care spending is going to kill literally millions is a
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June 17, 2017 — Steven Hayward
There’s been a vigorous debate going on about whether our political divisions can or should be described as a genuine “civil war” as opposed to just a “culture war” or merely “hyperpolarization.” James Hodgkinson’s heinous act this week argues for the full on civil war characterization. But does the left really want open warfare in America? For all their talk of “fighting in the streets,” they might want to think
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June 10, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Yes, I’d have to say Comey Comey Comey Comey Chameleon is the perfect persona for our media age of Boy George Stephanopoulos, not to mention Anderson Drooper-Cooper and the appropriately named Don Lemon. Why don’t we just get it over with and rename CNN the “Comey News Network.” And were you as disappointed as I was that Russian hookers didn’t get mentioned once in Thursday’s hearings? I was promised there
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June 3, 2017 — Steven Hayward
This week will go down in the history books as the week of Covfefe. All hail Covfefe! Is Covfefe the name of that great glowing orb Trump placed his hands on over in the Middle East? Or is it just another great example of how Trump is stimulating the economy—or at least the digital economy? Oh yeah, and Kathy Griffin committed career suicide this week, and Trump interred the Paris
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May 27, 2017 — Steven Hayward
So the Democrats got body slammed in another election this week. It’s to be expected in the Year of the Liberal Freakout. I expect Elizabeth Warren’s foreign policy platform in 2020 will be “Get the United States Out of Montana!” Meanwhile, liberals continue to hunt for the motive for the Manchester terror bombing. It’s almost as if liberals have a motive not to find a motive. What could that be?
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May 20, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Another week—though it seems like a month—another turn-it-up-to-11 on the Liberal/Media Trumpomatic Outrage Meter. Can they keep this up? Yes, because it is the most congenial mode of contemporary liberalism. I think the most secure job in America right now is Keith Olbermann’s psychiatrist, or perhaps Michael Moore’s dietitian. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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May 13, 2017 — Steven Hayward
The media/Democratic idiocy over Trump now comes so fast that I can’t keep up. As someone put it somewhere, I’m running out of evens to can’t. But realize what Trump accomplished this week: before this week, he was Hitler. Now he’s Nixon! Quite an upgrade! By July 4, he’ll be George W. Bush (who was also Hitler I think—boy is this confusing). Meanwhile, a fresh campus outrage or absurdity now
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May 10, 2017 — Steven Hayward
I just have to. Because in the modern news cycle this story will be more stale than Wonder Bread the day after a kegger at a frat house if I wait till Saturday to post. Besides, my inventory of properly empowered feminists is really starting to, um, stack up. And finally. . . (as if I need an excuse):
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May 6, 2017 — Steven Hayward
My old mentor M. Stanton Evans liked to say that it is a good thing most House Republicans were pro-life, since they spent so much time in the fetal position. This week they roused themselves to vote an Obamacare repeal and replace bill. Now on to the Senate, where we will test another old proposition, that while Democrats are the opposition to House Republicans, the Senate is the enemy. Headlines
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April 29, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Who had the worst week in America? It has to be Bill Nye, once the Science Guy but now the Weimar Guy, noted here a few days ago for celebrating the World’s Worst Music Video Ever. Shall we make him the new face of Nyehilism? Yes, I think we shall. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party and the campus left (but I repeat myself) continues its rapid descent into the abyss of
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April 22, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Too many clown cars colliding this week. Today is Earth Day (yawn), and also some kind of self-parodying science march, which will do for science with the woman’s march in January did for feminism. (But how will they outdo the hats?) I’m following the Berkeley/Ann Coulter drama in real time; stay tuned for updates. And Monday is Trump Day 100. Given that Trump has done everything contrary to the usual
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April 15, 2017 — Steven Hayward
I hadn’t realized, until I got sidetracked on an Amazon book search, that liberalism has fully transformed itself into a creed for children. Check out the first few titles below. Meanwhile, United Airlines is the gift that keeps on giving, but shouldn’t we actually praise them? In these polarizing times, no one has done as much to unite the American people as the appropriately named United. If they need to
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April 12, 2017 — Steven Hayward
What’s the over/under line on whether Sean Spicer or United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz will be first to exit their current job? After all, not even Hitler removed people from planes after they had boarded. In any case, why wait till Saturday. And finally. . .
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April 8, 2017 — Steven Hayward
One of my favorite bumper stickers from the late 1970s was “Nuke the Gay Whales for Jesus,” which managed to skewer several pieties at once. I’ll take nuking the Senate filibuster for the confirmation of Judge Gorsuch. It’s hard to believe the Democrats could be so dumb. Next thing you know they’ll nominate a corrupt, unappealing 69-year-old woman for president. Oh, wait. . . The left isn’t going to let
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April 1, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Last night during my ritual channel surfing my remote control battery went dead on me just as I had landed on MSNBC, where they were in full freakout mode about how Gen. Mike Flynn was going to bring down Donald Trump, probably within the current news cycle. My guess is Flynn’s got nuthin’. But it will keep the Fake News industry going for another month, all the while Trump will
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March 25, 2017 — Steven Hayward
The late, great Robert Novak famously remarked that God put the Republican Party on this earth to cut taxes, and other than that, he said, it’s not worth very much. The Obamacare repeal/replace debacle proves Novak’s Razor once again—and it even included tax cuts! I’m hoping that perhaps this will be a re-run of the 1986 tax reform, when everyone went home Friday night with the declaration that tax reform
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March 18, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Trump’s greatest satisfaction must be living rent-free in the heads of the media. Rachel Maddow’s misfire with Trump’s truncated tax return from 2005 led liberals and the media (but I repeat. . .) to wonder if Trump himself had leaked his 1040 to punk them. It almost doesn’t matter whether it is true: that the media is mired in self-doubt and wonder about Trump’s legerdemain counts as another win. So
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