I’ve been acutely aware of the possibility of President Biden dropping out of the 2024 race since the debate at the end of June. I was still on maternity leave, but it was about all my friends could talk about. “What do you think he’s going to do?” they asked. “Do we like Kamala, now?”...
I spent this past weekend in the Smoky Mountains attending a DeBartolo cousins family reunion in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We had a great time reconnecting and reminiscing. Love and laughter filled the house. President Trump’s assassination attempt took place during the reunion. It contrasted the unity we were experiencing and the division our country is...
I know what racism looks like. I saw it during my childhood in the Jim Crow South. I have also experienced the gift of growing up in a remarkable community that never let circumstances stand in the way of a dream. I was raised by educators who taught me that success was possible; I just...
If some polls are to be believed, one in three Democrats think that Donald Trump faked his own assassination attempt. When I read that, I thought, could this possibly be true? But this weekend on my drive home to West Virginia from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, I got the theory first hand. And...
They’re supposed to be paying attention, but some are on their smartphones instead. The instructor is a little annoyed, as she should be. But this is not aclassroomfull of students obsessed with their smartphones and their devices – it’s a faculty meeting. Yes, some of the sameteachers, myself included, who don’t allowphones in class, are...
The Democrats seeking to remove President Joe Biden from the 2024 White House race promise that this is not a coup attempt by elites to thwart the will of their party’s primary voters, but boy, it sure looks like one. It would be one thing if Democratic leadership en masse decided that Biden was no...
In our current political climate, it is rare for someone, especially an elected official, to publicly admit they misjudged an issue, took the wrong position, or supported the wrong candidate. Since being announced as the Republican vice presidential nominee, JD Vance has endured an onslaught of attacks – primarily centered around previous comments he made...
Donald Trump may well have sealed the outcome of the 2024 election with a performance on Thursday night in Milwaukee that has largely been unmatched in recent American political history. The former president eschewed the polarization and division that has marked much of his rhetoric in the past. In his speech officially accepting the Republican...
Presidential fitness is a serious matter, and we in the media are not doing the American public any favors by speculating about what is going on with President Biden, just as the White House is not doing us any favors by obfuscating the truth. We do know that he currently has COVID-19, with mild upper...
As we still digest how in the world a random 20-year-old, armed with a high-powered rifle, could have walked up within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally, climbed onto a rooftop, in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up and fired multiple rounds, nearly assassinating a former U.S. president. And while the shooter,...
