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On Saturday, after months of stonewalling, Andy Cuomo released the total number of nursing home residents who have died of covid.It was 14,832.That’s a lot of grandmas and grandpas.The number previously released had been closer to 9,000. That was just the number who had actually died in their nursing homes. We learned Saturday that some 5,800 others had died after being moved from their nursing homes to actual hospitals as they became acutely ill.That means that Andy had been hiding some 63% of his body count.Families and Republican legislators and some reporters had pressed for months for the total number,...

Either hate Donald Trump or try to unite the county.Pick one.You can’t do both.To the incoming president and his party, the message has to be clear: You cannot simultaneously try to mend fences and throw stones.Unity will come through partnership, not submission.As Joe Biden has repeatedly spoken of his desire to “be the president of all Americans” and to “heal the historic rift in our country,” he has also, in those same speeches, vilified Donald Trump and, by transference, those who supported him.That won’t work.You don’t make friends by spitting in somebody’s face.And while Donald Trump has, in the minds...

Silicon Valley did it because it knew it could get away with it.As Twitter and Facebook, and Google and Apple, moved hard to limit conservative messages on social media, they felt comfortable taking their oppressive and monopolistic actions because they knew no one would hold them accountable.With the United States Senate falling under Democratic Party control, they knew there would be no congressional committee calling them to account, and they knew the incoming presidential administration would leave them alone.Why?Because they calculated that the Democrats would put partisan advantage above principle.Big Tech understood that the Democrats would overlook the draconian silencing...

Rush didn’t come to work today.I fear that he might not ever come back.I fear that now, or soon, my friend of 30 years will be gone. And I already grieve him.And I don’t think I’m alone.There are millions of us across the country, tens of millions, many tens of millions, who hold this brother and father of the heart dear. Many tens of millions of us who have laughed and raged and resolved while he has led in the vital heart of American public thought.Rush Limbaugh has been an evangelist of the American spirit, a Billy Graham of our...

Andy Cuomo made a mistake Friday.He shared the numbers.The contact tracing numbers. The ones that show where people are catching covid.Specifically, he put up a PowerPoint slide that listed the results of the contact tracing of all cases of New York covid between the first of September and the last of November.That was an interesting slice of time. It began in the quiet days of late summer, with the virus hiding in the depths of its seasonality, and it ended with the first traces of winter, with the virus emerged and spreading dramatically through the population.It was a period that...

What a pretty lie a poll is. And what a pack of conmen the reporters are. And what an impotent tyranny the progressives run. That’s the takeaway on this uncertain morning after. While an asterisk hangs over the most important results, some conclusions are clear. We don’t yet know who the president will be, but we do know who the charlatans were. They were the people peddling the polls that reflected not public opinion, but public manipulation. They were the reporters who strung an orchestrated narrative of dishonesty, driven not by data but by dogma, not by our truth but...

As Election Day nears, President Donald Trump and his supporters are urging greater scrutiny of Hunter Biden, the son of his opponent, Democratic nominee Joe Biden. They’re especially focusing on the younger Biden’s ties to China. “Joe Biden must immediately release all emails, meetings, phone calls, transcripts, and records related to his involvement in his family’s business dealings and influence peddling around the world—including in CHINA!” Trump tweeted on Oct. 14. His campaign also ran an ad that said, “The question is not why Hunter Biden used his name to get these gigs. It’s why Joe Biden let him do...

You don’t parole a child molester to an in-home daycare. You don’t parole an addict to a drug house. And you don’t parole a cop killer to the home of a Black Lives Matter activist. Even if it is in a toney suburb in a quarter-million-dollar house. But that is exactly what the state of New York has done with Black Panther Anthony Bottom, who ambushed and executed two New York City police officers in 1971. Turned loose when nobody was looking, the Black Liberation Army soldier was paroled to Rochester, without any notice to either the public or any...

The New York Post on Wednesday published an article based on emails purportedly obtained from a laptop that Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president Joe Biden, had supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. Here’s a brief explainer to help readers evaluate its significance. We will continue to update this article as more information becomes available. What’s new? The key thrust of the article is that an April 17, 2015, email suggests Hunter Biden arranged for a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm to meet with the then-vice president when he was...

Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, a two-time World Series champion and two-time National League MVP All Star, died Sunday. He was 77. CBS Sports' Jim Bowden confirmed the news Morgan played 22 MLB seasons, beginning his career with the Houston Astros (then the Colt .45s) in 1963. Morgan then made his way to the Cincinnati Reds, where he became a key member of the Big Red Machine, winning back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976. Morgan also won back-to-back NL MVP Awards both of those years. Morgan was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum...

On CNN, Harris won. In the real world, she got her ass kicked. In the real world, Mike Pence is the sort of person we want sitting in the big chair. Line by line, question by question, the Indiana governor destroyed the California attorney general. It wasn’t even close. What she lacked in substance, she made up for in condescending smirk. It was entitled versus prepared, and prepared won. That’s what people who honestly watched the debate saw. What the commentators on TV saw was a debacle they had to paper over, a train wreck they had to spin into...

If you destroy Trump, you destroy the presidency. And if you destroy the presidency, you destroy the Republic. That's where we are now. The slow-motion coup has devolved into a low-grade civil war, and hatred has become the coin of the political realm. Once we took up our politics because of our love for our country, now we do it because of our hatred for our opponents. It is that way for both sides, and the foundations of the nation are washing away in the rising tide of incivility. It is beginning to look like the French revolution. People have...

Covid is real. So is the exploitation of it to suppress your freedom, weaken our country and destroy the economy. Few challenges in American history have been more incompetently or malevolently managed than the coronavirus. And in those states where Democratic governors have used it as a pretext to expand their powers and oppress their people, it has been weaponized in a fashion unseen in almost 250 years of American history. And whether it’s all been done to steal an election, or tear down a Republic, or advance the socialist agenda, or bring in a revolutionary Reign of Terror, it’s...

In recent days, courts have said that dancing topless in Buffalo is protected by the First Amendment, while attending church in Nevada isn’t. Covid can’t keep you away from a stripper, but it can keep you away from your priest. You may gather by the thousands to shout vulgarities at the cops – or burn down cities in the Northwest – but you can’t go to the gym or the amusement park, or hold your wedding or funeral. It’s covid-1984 and the deadly pathogen is not a novel virus, it is an all-powerful government. The bug will come and go,...

Whose job is it to explain to my children that their white skin makes them bad? Is that me? Or do I leave it to the evening news, the NFL, Nike, the Democratic Party and the college professors? Who is to teach white children how to deal with and submit to the shame into which they were born? If the sins of the fathers are to be visited upon the heads of the children, how do you get white kids woke to the inescapable burden of lifelong guilt they bear by virtue of their skin color? How do you keep...

This is how it was when Hitler burned books. Some few frenzied zealots did the burning, and the good people sat home, nervous, anxious, apprehensive, the way a mouse is in the moments before a cat sinks its fangs into it. This is America today. Where they pull down statues of George Washington and Ulysses Grant and anybody who held office in the Confederacy. Where anything or anyone involved in the slavery of 150 years ago – except the Democratic Party – is condemned and purged. Where politicians and poets of earlier days are denounced and desecrated by roving mobs...

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But what if I don’t believe that, as a general rule, cops are racists and white people are bad? What if I believe that the cops are the good guys and that white people aren’t the bad guys? Is there room in progressive America for me? Are those opinions still expressible in a nation that once practiced free speech? Maybe not. Especially now in crisis-of-the-week America, as the Democrats foment and exploit crises in ever more desperate attempts to claim power in November. They did global warming for a while, and that didn’t work. They did impeachment for a while,...

May 31, 2020 Impact Campus Community In Community and Solidarity Dear University of Maryland community, We are grieving the killing of George Floyd, McKinsley Lincoln, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, and Ahmaud Arbery, and all who came before. We are deeply concerned about insufficient police accountability across the country, systemic racism, and the social, economic, and health inequities that have led to protests born of despair, anger, and hope. We support the many peaceful demonstrations for justice across the United States. We acknowledge that we have our own painful history at UMD, which includes the tragic murder of Lt....