Abernathy Road

“Exactly what is the limit on how much money someone should be allowed to make? Can you give us an exact number?” That’s the question every socialist running for office in America should be asked, and reporters should not accept anything but a specific answer. The success of socialists during the Democratic Party’s primary season would be startling if it had not been not so clearly telegraphed over the past few years.

Illustration created with Google Gemini Following the Indiana primary results, where Republican challengers backed by President Trump largely knocked off incumbent state legislative Republicans who had refused to get behind Trump’s redistricting effort, most FLFM (far-left, formerly mainstream) media outlets characterized the results as “revenge” by Trump.

Going back to President Trump’s first term, the far left (formerly mainstream) media likes to produce stories about every six months or so questioning whether Trump’s MAGA base is finally breaking from him. The ultimate answer is always “no,” but the Trump-hating media remains endlessly optimistic that someday they’ll be right. The latest media fever dream is that Trump’s adventure in Iran is finally doing the trick.

By Gary Abernathy On Tuesday, Democrats’ pure hatred of Trump led them to fall into the simple trap he set, a gift to the GOP this fall President Trump issued a challenge to lawmakers assembled for Tuesday’s State of the Union speech to stand if they agreed with the following statement: “The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.” It was such a simple and basic “well, of course” sentiment that I sincerely thought, watching on TV, that even...

More than two years ago, after writing my last of nearly 200 columns over six years for the Washington Post, I decided to take a break and pull back from most public media appearances. That included occasionally serving as a regular fill-in for David Brooks on the Friday week-in-review discussion segment of the PBS “NewsHour,” which I had been doing for two or three years.

“Believe your own eyes,” insist people who want everyone to see what they see in regard to recent officer-involved shootings captured on cell phone video in Minneapolis. And yet, we can each examine various angles of video captured by bystanders and reach very different conclusions, based on perspective, length of video, voices captured as video is being recorded, and other factors.

I was watching an NFL playoff game last weekend when I noticed something written on the back of a player’s helmet. “Choose Love,” it said. What? Was this some random player making a personal statement? Then I noticed the same thing on the backs of all the helmets of players from both teams. Then I Googled it. Yep, there was an AP story explaining it: The NFL will honor the Rev.

The United States is at a tipping point. On which side will it land? It is not hyperbole to claim that our country has reached a tipping point. The recent events involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) attempt to enforce the law, and the opposition resistance trying to stop it – shockingly led in many cases by high-ranking elected officials – is approaching anarchist revolution territory.

Far-left media wrings their hands over laws being upheld instead of celebrating the chance for schools to get better The Associated Press was at one time, long, long ago, the gold standard for dispassionate, dry, factual reporting, a style based in part on good journalism and in part an acknowledgement of the fact that its stories were carried by thousands of news outlets across the U.S. and around the world.

Fears about the rise of Artificial Intelligence are reasonable, but AI isn’t quite what some claim it to be Like many, I find the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence to be a troubling prospect. While the benefits of AI technology are appreciable, its potential to eclipse human beings in so many walks of life is alarming.