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  • We Elected Biden to Be Better Than This

    01/14/2023 7:36:38 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 143 replies
    TIME ^ | January 14, 2023 | BY MONA CHAREN
    In 2020, America elected Joe Biden to be not-Trump—a role for which he seemed well-suited. In 2016, the country voted for burn-it-all-down upheaval. Trump was the tribune of those who felt betrayed and misled and mistreated. Four chaotic years later, alarmed voters fled into the arms of an aging former vice-president and senator—a man they had twice rejected as a presidential contender—who seemed the personification of the steady hand. No one expected Biden to be transformational or extraordinary, but we did need him to be the anti-Trump in the most important ways. We needed him to be sober and responsible,...
  • Mona Charen: Thank God Trump isn't president right now

    04/25/2022 11:47:57 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 84 replies
    triblive.com ^ | March 13, 2022 | Mona Charen
    President Biden is not very good at his job, and yet, I thank God every day that Biden is president. In the Ukraine crisis, he has redeemed the hopes of those who voted for competence. The administration’s warnings to Moscow were unambiguous without being hysterical. Our revelations of intelligence unmasking Russian disinformation and false flag narratives were on the nose. Biden’s coordination with European allies was a skillful presentation of unity (special kudos to Secretary of State Antony Blinken). There were some missed opportunities. The president should have placed the invasion of Ukraine in a broader historical context and outlined...
  • The #NeverTrumpers Dig In

    10/18/2021 2:36:59 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 14 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | October 18, 2021 | T.R. Clancy
    Ever since I joined the public conversation as a conservative writer, I’ve been called a fascist and a Nazi by smug, liberal know-nothings, sublimely confident of the truth of their ill-informed prejudices.So wrote Jonah Goldberg, in response to slander, in his George W. Bush-era Liberal Fascism. Goldberg has recently engaged in some sublimely-confident slanders of his own, scorning Trump-supporting Republican Party because of “its descent into asininity.” He anticipates Trump’s return as the party’s nominee in 2024, and the only way to head off that nightmare is another Democratic presidency that will protract the catastrophic progressive transformation of the country...
  • Biden Could Do More to Unify the Country (Can You say Barf Alert?)

    04/30/2021 5:28:59 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 24 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 30, 2021 | Mona Charen
    Among right-wingers, there has been some delight about polls showing that Joe Biden's popularity at the 100-day mark is the lowest of any president since World War II. Oh, if you exclude Donald Trump. Undaunted by this detail, they note with satisfaction that Biden's approval rating, according to multiple polls, is somewhere between 52 and 57%. At this point in his presidency, Trump's approval was 40%. Americans were far less partisan in the era of Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush and even Clinton than they are now. Large numbers of Democrats were willing to give high marks to Eisenhower when the economy...
  • Mona Charen: Proud of my vote for Biden

    04/12/2021 6:03:52 AM PDT · by Dr. Scarpetta · 92 replies
    Palm Beach Post ^ | 2/1/2021 | Mona Charen
    I've been getting a lot of mail from critics lately asking if I'm happy with the Biden administration. They point to some of the new president's executive orders — the one about the Keystone XL pipeline, or the one rescinding the "Mexico City" policy withholding funds from international organizations that perform or advocate for abortion. They ask, snidely, whether I'm proud of my vote for the Democrat. My answer is a resounding yes. It's not because I think Joe Biden will pursue a policy agenda I will agree with most of the time. It's because we just came within a...
  • Never Trump conservatives are complicit with Team Biden’s moral outrages and norm-breaking

    04/11/2021 10:28:55 PM PDT · by Oshkalaboomboom · 34 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/11/2021 | Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Schmitz
    Remember Never Trump? For four years, an influential clique of think tankers, Republican operatives and talking heads claimed that any conservative who supported ­Donald Trump was complicit with a uniquely malevolent presidency. But if Trumpian conservatives are ­responsible for everything the 45th president was faulted for, then Never Trump should likewise own the evils of the new Biden administration. Never Trumpers spoke of the Trump GOP almost as if it were Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party, a dictator’s discredited political organ, badly in need of a purge. “President Donald Trump leaves office with a crimson-stained legacy,” thundered Peter Wehner, vice president...
  • Elizabeth Warren Is Not Honest

    10/18/2019 5:06:48 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 20 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 18, 2019 | Mona Charen
    If you want to run for office, political consultants will hammer away at one point: Tell stories. People respond to stories. We've been a storytelling species since our fur-clad ancestors gathered around campfires. Don't cite statistics. No one can remember statistics. Make it human. Make it relatable. Lincoln told stories. FDR told stories. Reagan told stories. Watching the Democrats' fourth debate Tuesday night, you could see the candidates implementing this advice. They'd mention Joe in their state who said X, or Jane who called their office with Y problem. They commonly use techniques like: "The voters I speak to aren't...
  • Why Reparations Talk Is Harmful

    09/20/2019 5:55:19 AM PDT · by karpov · 38 replies
    National Review ^ | September 20, 2019 | Mona Charen
    Three Democratic candidates for president — Julián Castro, Cory Booker, and Marianne Williamson — have declared support for the idea of slavery reparations. A number of others have said they’d vote for a bill sponsored by Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D., Texas) to create a “commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.” Still other candidates have been vague (Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke), while Elizabeth Warren has called for a “national, full-blown conversation about reparations in this country.” Oh, a conversation. A Washington Post piece examining the tensions between black Americans on the question offers a glimpse...
  • Joe Biden's Vulnerability or the Democrats'?

    07/05/2019 2:51:41 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 5, 2019 | MonaCharen,
    Sen. Kamala Harris demonstrated rare skill during the debate -- managing to shiv Joe Biden and look nice doing it. By adopting the language of "hurt" instead of anger, she finessed the problem that usually attends launching an unprovoked attack: that it may harm the perpetrator as much as the target -- think Chris Christie and Marco Rubio in 2016. Harris' pose of wounded disappointment shielded her -- at least until her rollout of $35 T-shirts the following morning, featuring the image of herself as a child. That revealed, shall we say, a certain calculation. Still, Harris's maneuver achieved its...
  • Bill Kristol’s ‘Republican’ group reportedly has no GOP donors

    11/19/2018 8:31:41 AM PST · by a little elbow grease · 36 replies
    bizpacreview.com ^ | 11/16/18 | Frieda Powers
    (snip) -- So-called “conservative” commentator Bill Kristol reportedly has his never-ending campaign to take down President Donald Trump receive funding from a left-wing billionaire. Kristol, the editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard, seems to have taken his never-Trump activities to another level, actively opposing Republican candidates and conservative causes through the group he founded, “Republicans for the Rule of Law.” But despite its name, the group seems to have no Republican donors according to a report by Julie Kelly of American Greatness, though there is one prominent benefactor: progressive billionaire Pierre Omidyar, the co-founder of eBay. One of Omidyar’s nonprofits, the...
  • Thinking About Anti-Semitism (Barf Alert)

    11/03/2018 5:40:16 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 3, 2018 | Mona Charen
    In the days following the murder rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue, I received several expressions of grief from friends who are committed Christians. One included in her note a verse from John Donne: "No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." This largeness of spirit is what I have come to know and love in America. The incubus of anti-Semitism, so ineradicable and durable elsewhere in the world, has been gloriously...
  • Can Feminists Cure What Ails Men?

    07/27/2018 6:15:44 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 44 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 27, 2018 | Mona Charen
    "Boys need feminists' help too," declares Feministing.com founder Jessica Valenti. Writing in The New York Times, Valenti worries that while women "protest, run for office, and embrace the movement for gender equality in record numbers, a generation of mostly white men are being radicalized into believing that their problems stem from women's progress." Valenti cites the "manosphere," the network of websites that peddle misogyny, and she's right that it is disturbing. But Valenti undermines her case by citing the popularity of Jordan Peterson as more evidence of woman hatred. On the contrary, Valenti and other feminists would do well to...
  • Mona Charen Wanted to Be Called 'Timmy' as Child, Thankful She Didn't Grow Up in Today's Culture

    06/30/2018 8:13:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 06/30/2018 | Samuel Smith
    Mona Charen is a well-known conservative author, columnist and speech writer who has spoken out about the dangers of modern feminism and the transgender identity push on children. But what many might not know about her is that at one point in her childhood, she wanted people to call her "Timmy.""I shudder to think what would have happened if I had come along a little later in history," Charen told The Christian Post during an interview this week about her book, Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch With Science, Love and Common Sense.Charen, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based...
  • Making Sense of Eric Schneiderman

    05/11/2018 2:32:56 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 32 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2018 | Mona Charen
    The former attorney general of the state of New York allegedly had a pattern of slapping and choking women with whom he was intimate. He also spat at them, demanded threesomes, insulted them, threatened them and called one (who had dark skin) his "brown slave," according to recent accusations. One woman claims that without warning he slammed her so hard that he broke her eardrum. Another woman says that his palm left a red welt on her face that remained visible the following day. These and other details about Eric Schneiderman were disclosed by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer in...
  • MORE NEVER-TRUMP MORAL PREENING

    03/07/2018 5:34:30 AM PST · by SJackson · 6 replies
    Frontnpagemagazine ^ | March 7, 2018 | Bruce Thornton
    Smug self-congratulation and groveling delight in being praised by progressives. Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. President Trump in his first year has succeeded at realizing many long-time conservative goals like tax reform and deregulation, to name a few. But for NeverTrump grumps, these achievements seem to intensify their bitter-ender anger at a political parvenu. Puffed up with self-regard about the purity of their “principles,” many have doubled-down on their criticisms of Trump’s brash, vulgar demeanor, coming off like the pompous Judge Smails sputtering over Al Czervik’s trashing of the Bushwood Country Club....
  • CPAC speaker Mona Charen stuns with fiery rebuke of Trump, Le Pen (Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey)

    02/24/2018 4:06:37 PM PST · by kiryandil · 192 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | February 24, 2018 | Gabby Morrongiello
    A conservative columnist was escorted out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday after slamming President Trump and conservatives for behaving like "hypocrites" when it comes to women's issues. Mona Charen, a National Review writer and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was asked during a panel about the Left's treatment of women what has left her most fired up in the Trump era...
  • What Is the Real Message of #MeToo?

    01/18/2018 7:20:13 AM PST · by Kaslin · 26 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 18, 2018 | Mona Charen
    The feminist website Babe published an account of a date gone bad. The pushback has been swift and sharp. I share some of the concerns of the critics, but I also think young women are sending a message that is being missed. The account by the anonymous "Grace" about a bad date with comedian Aziz Ansari was, if not "3,000 words of revenge porn" (Caitlin Flanagan's phrase), certainly a low journalistic blow. To permit an anonymous accuser to assassinate the character of a famous man is a sucker punch. He may have behaved badly, but even assuming that her entire...
  • Poking the Beehive

    09/08/2017 9:15:33 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 20 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 8, 2017 | Mona Charen
    Professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law has poked a stick into a beehive. Tenure is liberating that way. In an op-ed for Philly.com, she argued, with Larry Alexander, a law professor at the University of San Diego, that the decline of "bourgeois values" since the 1950s has contributed to a host of social ills. Male labor-force participation rates are down to Depression-era levels. Opioid abuse is epidemic. Half of all children are born to single mothers, and many college students lack basic skills. This is right out of the Charen hymnbook. Behavioral standards that were...
  • Is the Party of Lincoln Now the Party of Lee?

    08/18/2017 9:43:32 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 29 replies
    National Review ^ | August 17, 2017 | Mona Charen
    ... Contra Donald Trump, the Hitler Youth wannabes who paraded through Charlottesville last Friday night are not sincere Republicans falsely accused of being Nazis. They are the real thing. It should have been the most basic act of American civic hygiene to condemn and anathematize them. (Some Republicans did.) But since it seems we must state the obvious: The “Unite The Right” organizers, including alt-right leaders Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler, advertised their demonstration with Nazi-style imagery, carried torches reminiscent of Nuremberg and Klan rallies, and chanted “Blood and soil” and “The Jews will not replace us.” The next day,...
  • Republicans Are Big-Government Party Too

    06/30/2017 7:31:20 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 30, 2017 | Mona Charen
    We now have the answer to a question that has hung in the air for months: Why did the Republican leadership not have an Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan on the shelf and ready to go the minute the election went their way? Why didn't they use the time since the law's 2010 passage to craft the Republican alternative? The charitable answer would be: Because vetoes are daunting, big policy changes are difficult, big parties have incompatible factions and presidential leadership is critical. The real answer is that Republicans were bluffing. Like the Democrats, they are a big-government party -- just less...