Georgia senatorial candidate and former NFL star Herschel Walker is campaigning as militantly pro-life and anti-choice on abortion rights. But there is credible evidence that he paid for and endorsed an abortion that his girlfriend had in the past. Because they simply want to win, Republican officials and voters are happy to overlook his brazen hypocrisy.
Despite official media ethical guidelines that deplore the use of anonymous sources, major national news outlets continue to publish articles leaked by anonymous government officials without any sourcing whatsoever, often purely based on speculation. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to ignore this nonsense.
When it comes to shipping weapons to countries like Ukraine and Taiwan, money is no object. Billions of dollars are freely flowing. Meanwhile, Americans are lacking for basic needs like running water. In Jackson, Mississippi, there’s still no sign that residents will have clean water anytime soon.
American media outlets smugly report human rights abuses abroad while ignoring those at home. Case in point: Iranians outraged over the death of a woman in custody of the morality police over her hijab are getting prominent coverage in the US. Meanwhile, in at least 14 states, you can’t get an abortion for any reason. In Iran, on the other hand, abortion is still legal under some circumstances.
Employers are the biggest whiners ever. Most of the time there is an artificial job shortage that allows them to underpay and overwork and abuse employees. Sometimes, like now, there is a rare labor shortage. But when it’s their turn to adjust to economic reality, all they do is whinge and complain.
Whatever happened to civil disobedience? Abortion bans are a case in point. Pro-choice activists and physicians feel strongly that women should have the right to an abortion yet very few are willing to risk prison sentences or fines in order to challenge the system by breaking the law.
The governors of Florida and Texas have made news by exporting symbols of the migration crisis, asylum seekers themselves, to northern states like New York and Massachusetts. What if Northerners and leaders of other blue states were to return the favor by exporting their problems?
President Donald Trump hasn’t held political office in nearly two years yet Democrats and their media allies show no sign of a messaging campaign that is mostly directed against him rather than promoting their own agenda.
Supporters of Ukraine in its conflict with Russia seem unable to understand the terrible optics of the fact that President Biden, who has essentially entered the war on the side of Ukraine, has a drug addict son who received a lucrative no-show job from Ukraine. There is no distinction between the appearance of conflict of interest and actual conflict of interest.
Democrats are currently engaged in a very risky strategy: they are financing right wing pro Trump Republicans in Republican primaries and runoff elections based on the assumption that they will be easier to defeat in the fall. While they are at it, perhaps they should use similar tactics on abortion…
