Miranda Devine

A united, confident America should easily be able to counter Putin's whataboutism.

We are teaching white children to hate themselves. We are teaching nonwhite children that it's OK to bully and torment white children because of the color of their skin.

While 15-year-olds in China blitz their peers in the West in math, reading and science, we are warping the minds of our children by indoctrinating them in an ideology that is Marxist in nature and teaches them that America is an oppressive regime of 'whiteness' and anyone born with white skin needs to be punished, humiliated and marginalized.

Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The Mathematical Association of America has succumbed.

Americans voted for Trump in 2016 precisely because he is a pit bull, a barbarian, a gun-slinger they hired to fight the dirty left, drain the swamp, bring back their jobs from China and stand up for the flag, family and common sense.

Surrounded by soy boys and pallid milquetoasts, left-wing women often secretly hanker for a Neanderthal macho man in their life.

It's sort of admirable that America is big enough to put up with the contemptuous self-loathing. Americans are freer than anyone in the world to say and do whatever they like, but when freedom cluelessly turns against itself, it can become a liability.

When athletes are obsessed with whatever identity niche they've backed themselves into at the expense of showcasing America, everybody suffers. They forget to focus on winning and lose resilience.

Newsflash: Americans don't want to watch athletes who hate America representing America.

Kneeling and gesturing, turning your back on the flag and disrespecting the national anthem is gross, self-indulgent and moronic.

Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln's entreaty to 'the better angels of our nature.' Everyone in Congress - and, by extension, the nation - has been sullied by the spite and vitriol she has injected into the political sphere.

America is back' is a divisive, foolish slogan. It only baffles America's allies and emboldens our adversaries.

America never went away during the Trump years, except in Biden's imagination.

Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity' is intrinsically unjust because it demands equality of outcome and not equality of opportunity.

In a contest between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, there's no comparison. Anyone in the world who cares about freedom wants to pull for the American president. The problem is Biden gives us so little to work with.

Gaslighting only goes so far. This is a lesson many a politician has learned the hard way.

Underestimate the intelligence of the electorate at your peril.

President Biden has gotten away his entire career with bending the truth and taking people for fools.

Vaccines are great and masks have a place, but state coercion is not where America wants to go.

It's never too late to try authenticity.

There is nothing compassionate about Biden's lax border policy, not for the poor souls who have been lured into the arms of criminal human-smugglers, and not for the American people, who already are suffering the consequences of what can only be described as a secret government-sponsored invasion.

Joy Reid is a racist sociopath.

It will be up the Gen Z to rebuild the institutions and replenish the moral capital squandered by their forbears.

When old people in power scold children and young people for 'selfishness' if they don't get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it's obvious who actually is being selfish.

If the federal government is intent on keeping the southern border open and refuses to notify states when it dumps a new bunch of unvetted, unvaccinated migrants on their doorstep, it is up to governors to stand up for their communities and stop their services being overwhelmed by the influx.

It's Never Trumpers who deserve the most scorn, especially the inadequates from the Lincoln Project.

Movies are America's primary cultural product, colonizing minds around the world for almost a century.

Whatever motivates the enemies of charter schools, you cannot describe it as anything but evil. How else do you characterize adults willing to sacrifice the welfare of powerless children to entrench their own power?

What is it with Democrats and their hostility to schools that offer poor minority kids the best ticket out of generational poverty and disadvantage?

Joe Biden sent his own children to an elite private school, and parades as the Black Lives Matter candidate, yet his policies are openly hostile to the educational choices that offer the best chance for minority advancement.

When officials lie, we lose faith in authority, get our information elsewhere and throw caution to the wind.

The Marxist, anti-cop, anti-family Black Lives Matter movement is not designed to make black lives better, clearly.

Pence has been the indispensable, unimpeachable rock of Trump's presidency, the yin to his yang.

AOC has proven that she is unfit to hold public office. She is a grandstanding activist who refuses to grow up.

AOC is divisive and disloyal to her own party.

It is unhealthy to have one of the two main parties paralyzed by internal conflict. So, it's in all of our interests for the Democratic Party to rid itself of the cancer of its democratic socialist faction.

Out of respect to Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, it's best not to examine too closely the hangups of her husband, Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, other than to point out the cruelty of a husband constantly excoriating his wife's boss in public. You wouldn't do that to your worst enemy.

The Lincoln Project is the brainchild of embittered former GOP grifters who failed to anticipate the Trump phenomenon and were not talented enough to overcome their miscalculation. Trump derangement is the only occupation open to their washed-up careers, so they are doomed forever to tilt at windmills.

There's a reason that illegal migrants marching toward the U.S.-Mexico border idolize Biden. He explicitly invited them here and promised free health care and other goodies during his campaign.

Escapees from Communist China and the Soviet Bloc have inoculated America from the evils of Marxism in the past, but it seems every generation needs a new lesson.

Politicians unwilling to do battle are wasting our time.

Fearless leaders are needed to defend our culture, not agreeable milquetoasts.

Ron DeSantis is right: Republicans must aggressively fight back in the culture wars. They didn't start the wars, but they have an obligation not to shy away from confrontation on social issues.

Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.

When you downplay the evils of ISIS and al Qaeda, you trivialize the suffering of their victims.

Joe Biden is America's biggest troll.

Just because you have the numbers in Congress, doesn't mean it's wise to abuse your power.

Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned.

Republicans keen to shake Donald Trump loose from the party underestimate his popularity at their peril.

Whatever your political leanings, it is disturbing that federal authorities were spying on emails and other private communications between President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first impeachment.