Ask Ann Anything! ACB Edition

With the Amy Coney Barrett hearings in full swing this week, my mailbox has been overflowing with questions from absolutely no readers! Here, I will deliver the answers that no one asked for. Q: How can you say it's fair to fill the seat of a constitutional giant like Ruth Bader Ginsburg with this ...

Debate Tip: Remember to Ask About White Supremacy

Unfortunately, this week's vice presidential debate -- occurring after this column goes out -- is unlikely to be something you'd see in the Turkish parliament, like we had last week. But I expect one similarity: There will be ZERO questions about any major issues, like crime, immigration, ...

Is Chris Wallace a White Supremacist?

After four months of looting, arson, window breaking, vandalism, intimidation, physical assaults, stabbings and shootings by Black Lives Matter and antifa, the first thing on the media's mind is ... getting Trump to condemn "white supremacists"! It would be as if, on the morning after Pearl ...

Jake Gardner

Innocent Until Proven Trump Supporter

During a BLM "peaceful protest" in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 30 (over George Floyd's dying of a heart attack while in police custody in Minneapolis), James Scurlock was peacefully protesting by breaking into an architecture firm -- hoisting an office chair and hurling it into two computer monitors, ...

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

Simple Ideas to Ensure a Trump Victory

Memo to His Excellency, President Donald Trump: 1) Extend Daylight Saving Time. COVID, the shutdown, riots, looting, wildfires -- we're depressed enough. Do one small favor for the nation in 2020 by giving us another hour of sunlight. The next president can punish us again. (But why would we ever ...

Extra! Trump, A Fascist, Hates the Troops

Just before New Year's Eve 2017, President Trump told The New York Times' Michael Schmidt: "Another reason that I'm going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I'm not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes. Without ...

Kyle Rittenhouse

Where’s “The Talk” When We Need It?

For many years now, we've gotten mountains of press about "The Talk," the rite of passage lecture that black parents feel obliged to give their sons so that they won't end up getting shot by the police. Apparently, unlike white people who are always fighting with cops and resisting arrest, young ...

Are the Media Trying To Throw the Election to Trump?

Every day is a reenactment of my book, Resistance Is Futile. Trump does something stupid (or many things) and the media say, We can top that! Trump fumbles the ball, followed by the media throwing an interception, then Trump commits a personal foul, but the media blows the field goal, then Trump ...

Biden/Harris 2020

The Jared Kushner Achievement Award Goes To … Kamala!

As has been duly noted, The New York Times' front page celebrating Biden's announcement of Kamala Harris as his running mate rivaled its moon landing coverage. A gigantic photo of a saintlike Harris took up half of the space above the fold, under a 2-inch headline: "HARRIS JOINS BIDEN TICKET, ...

Kamala Harris

How Do I Tell My Friend She’s Not “African American”?

My wonderful readers often have questions for me, particularly in what every TV commercial calls "these uncertain times" when we're all "in this together" and must give hourly thanks to "our heroes." So, as I have in the past, I wanted to take a moment to reply to questions that have been pouring ...