The country that constantly brags about being the most generous nation on earth has no qualms about plotting to cut medical services to the poor worldwide—how revoltingly low and sordid can American policy get? Apparently there is no limit.
UMAIR HAQUE—And yet…there they are. They’re untouchables — a mafia of smug, unbelievably stupid white dudes, who’ll never pay any price whatsoever for being so incredibly wrong that they ended up leading a society hurtling off the cliff edge of ignorance into the abyss of jaw-dropping stupidity. In any sane society, a Bret Stephens — a denier of climate change, fascism, stagnation, inequality — would have been exiled from being a columnist years ago, publicly disgraced, a national humiliation.
PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—As we in Florida await in our ( hopefully) boarded up and sandbagged homes the arrival of but another deadly storm, one has time to sit and ponder things. This writer lived through a major hurricane assault, when Mathew trampled through Port Orange, Florida in October of 2016. We were lucky while being the unlucky neighbors in our 50 unit sub division. As we lay on the master bedroom floor with our two frightened kittens, 100 mph winds tore a pine tree and sent it flying through our roof.
UMAIR HAQUE—In case you don’t know — and my bet is you don’t, because American media doesn’t seem interested in covering it — being an “illegal immigrant” isn’t a criminal offense. It’s a civil one. A minor civil one, at that. So if we’re sensible people, there’s no reason that immigration agents should be carrying guns at all. They’re not dealing with criminals — by definition. So why do we have a paramilitary army masquerading as an immigration “force”?
PHILIP GIRALDI—The most recent “former intelligence agents’” blast against Trump appeared in the Business Insider last month in an article entitled “US spies say Trump’s G7 performance suggests he’s either a ‘Russian asset’ or a ‘useful idiot’ for Putin.” The article cites a number of former government officials, including several from the CIA and FBI, who claimed that Trump’s participation at the recent G7 summit in Biarritz France was marked by pandering to Putin and the Kremlin’s interests, including a push to re-include Russia in the G-7, from which it was expelled after the annexation of Crimea.