#GOP’s problem isn’t Liz Cheney and other commentary

#GOP’s problem isn’t Liz Cheney and other commentary

“#GOP’s problem isn’t Liz Cheney and other commentary” From the right: GOP’s Problem Isn’t Liz Cheney Rep. Liz Cheney “has taken every opportunity to assail” President Donald Trump “and the stolen-election narrative,” so she has “likely talked herself out of a Republican leadership position,” predict the editors at National Review. But the problem isn’t that…

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#Hope Elon Musk kills it on SNL and other commentary

#Hope Elon Musk kills it on SNL and other commentary

“#Hope Elon Musk kills it on SNL and other commentary” Conservative: Hope Musk Kills It on SNL “Elon Musk is too funny for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ” snarks Damian Reilly at Spectator USA, but “I hope he kills it” with a “brutal” “comedic assault on political correctness.” The left insists “Musk, a billionaire who happens…

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#Major corrections on Giuliani raid and other commentary

#Major corrections on Giuliani raid and other commentary

“#Major corrections on Giuliani raid and other commentary” Media watch: Major Corrections on Rudy Raid “The Washington Post, New York Times, and NBC News all issued corrections over the weekend, saying that Rudy Giuliani did not receive a direct warning from the FBI that he was a target of a Russian disinformation campaign,” reports Slate’s…

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#Minneapolis is becoming ‘Murderapolis’ again and other commentary

#Minneapolis is becoming ‘Murderapolis’ again and other commentary

“#Minneapolis is becoming ‘Murderapolis’ again and other commentary” Minneapolis update: Back to ‘Murderapolis’ “With the gigantic outpouring of global attention” to the George Floyd case, Michael Tracey argues at his Substack newsletter, “it would be foolish to not also notice the comparatively minuscule attention that other instances of unjust killings receive.” Violence in Minneapolis has…

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#Biden’s ‘crisis’ crisis and other commentary

#Biden’s ‘crisis’ crisis and other commentary

“#Biden’s ‘crisis’ crisis and other commentary” From the right: Biden’s ‘Crisis’ Crisis White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claims President Biden didn’t mean to describe the border crisis as “a crisis,” yet that’s precisely the term he used, notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. This shows how “determined the Biden White House is to deny…

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#Wrong takes on Chauvin verdict and other commentary

#Wrong takes on Chauvin verdict and other commentary

“#Wrong takes on Chauvin verdict and other commentary” Iconoclast: Wrong Takes on Chauvin Verdict The verdict against Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death “should ­increase confidence” in the justice system, writes Sean Collins at Spiked Online. Yet “those are not the conclusions being reached by liberal politicians” and activists. As the judge and jurors had…

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#Two police shootings, two different outcomes and other commentary

#Two police shootings, two different outcomes and other commentary

“#Two police shootings, two different outcomes and other commentary” Centrist: Two Police Shootings, Two Outcomes  The charging decisions in the police shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in DC were announced within an hour of each other “with strikingly different conclusions,” observes Jonathan Turley at USA Today. While Babbitt was “at the…

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#’Manslaughter’ hard to prove and other commentary

#’Manslaughter’ hard to prove and other commentary

“#’Manslaughter’ hard to prove and other commentary” From the right: ‘Manslaughter’ Hard To Prove The manslaughter charge against Kim Potter, the cop who accidentally shot Daunte Wright, strikes National Review’s Robert VerBruggen as “morally appropriate” but possibly difficult to prove legally. Minnesota’s statute says a person is guilty of second-degree manslaughter if he or she…

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#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary

#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary

“#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary” Economist: Don’t Raise Corporate Taxes Even if President Biden wanted to raise revenue to address America’s “mountain of debt” (rather than for his dubious $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” plan), hiking corporate taxes “is the wrong way to go about it,” contends Allison Schrager at City Journal. The Trump tax…

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