Vice President Mike Pence took to live television to take the coronavirus vaccine in his arm -- and that's some darn good leadership right there, indeed. Moreover, he didn't faint. Even better leadership. 'Cause nothing says "don't follow me!" like a man trying to cut a "follow me, get the vaccine" public health spot who then faints. Like that nurse did in Tennessee.
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Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf and his transgender health secretary Rachel Levine have demanded citizens in their state of Pennsylvania wear face masks for months as a means of combatting the coronavirus. But the masks failed. Coronavirus case counts are up.
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"No one is illegal" is about to become more than a trendy T-shirt slogan.
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President-elect Joseph Biden's selection of former South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 Democratic Party primary rival candidate, Pete Buttigieg, as the next transportation secretary is disappointing. The U.S. Department of Transportation has 55,000 employees and a budget of $71.4 billion. It is composed of the federal highway, transit, motor carriers, maritime and highway traffic safety administrations, along with the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and its own Office of Inspector General. While mayor, Buttigieg ran a city of 100,000 with 1,143 employees and an annual budget of $358 million.
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I have read more than a few stories about the calls for Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to tender his resignation following a report that revealed the VA tried to cover up sexual-assault claims.
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We are supposedly a nation of laws. We elect members of Congress to represent us, pass those laws necessary to keep us safe and run the country on a smooth path. When retired military generals decide those laws do not apply to us because we are too important and know much better than Congress, things have badly gotten out of hand — and someone needs to take action to return the nation to a secure footing.
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Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, just announced that he wants his state of Washington to open schools for in-person instruction, COVID-19 case counts be danged. Well, case counts almost be danged. In these coronavirus shut-down times, it's practically political blasphemy for a Democrat to acknowledge the failures of online learning.
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By Adam N. Michel
It's December and a lame-duck Congress is in session. In Washington, this means it's time to play a game. But the game is rigged. The winners are lobbyists and the politically well-connected; the losers are you and other American taxpayers.
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The 2020 presidential election has been essentially settled, with Joe Biden positioned to unseat Donald Trump as commander in chief. Central to the apparent Biden victory was the solid backing of the U.S. intelligence community.
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Peter Vincent Pry has joined others who for the past three decades have warned that successive U.S. administrations have not done enough to ensure American security in this nuclear-proliferated world. ("Time to replace mutual assured nuclear destruction with a shield of space-based defenses," Web, Dec. 14).
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