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White liberals have moved to the left of black voters

“No Democrat is going to win the nomination for president of the United States without African American support. Nor should they,” Kate Bedingfield, Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager, told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last week. Bedingfield was pushing back on a single bad poll for Biden (from Monmouth University) that had the media and the other Democratic campaigns smelling blood in the water. The poll now seems to be the outlier that the Biden people say it is. But Bedingfield’s argument has a longer shelf life both for the Democratic primary and the country. Let’s start ...

Fan of fasting

Dear Annie: I cannot tell you how elated I was to read the letter from “Eating and Satisfied.” I, too, found success with intermittent fasting — even to the extent of losing more than a hundred pounds. The experts have found that going without food for 16 to 18 hours straight will facilitate faster weight loss by using up your glycogen stores. Unless you are an athlete, which most of us are not, one of the worst things you can do for your weight is to eat every few hours. I found success with the two most common forms of fasting: the 18-hour fast and the 24-hour fast. One ...

Criminologists mislead us

John Paul Wright, professor at University of Cincinnati, and Matthew DeLisi professor at Iowa State University have penned a powerful article titled “What Criminologists Don’t Say, and Why,” in City Journal, Summer 2017. There is significant bias among criminologists. The reason for that bias is that political leanings of academic criminologists are liberal. Liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of 30-to-1. Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment to harsh sentencing. ...

Singed by sister’s cigs

Dear Annie: My sister started smoking cigarettes when she was 18 and still smokes today at 48. She has quit several times over the years, but then she goes back to smoking again and again. Her husband and children want her to quit, and my older brother goes ballistic on the subject — yelling and screaming at her when she goes outside to light up. I had a quiet lunch with her recently, and we talked about it. I tried to be understanding, and she could sense that and said she appreciated that I wasn’t condemning her. She said she just loves to smoke, and if it kills her, so be it. ...

Let them howl, Boris!

Facing a Parliamentary majority opposed to a hard Brexit — a crashing out of the EU if Britain is not offered a deal she can live with — Boris Johnson took matters into his own hands. He went to the Queen at Balmoral and got Parliament “prorogued,” suspended, from Sept. 12 to Oct. 14. That’s two weeks before the Oct. 31 deadline Johnson has set for Britain’s departure. The time his opposition in Parliament has to prevent a crash out of the European Union has just been sliced in half. His adversaries are incensed. The speaker of the House of Commons called Johnson’s ...

Food habits are hard to break

Dear Annie: My boyfriend, “Joseph,” grew up in a lower-income household in what we would now call a “food desert.” Most meals were fast food, and his parents didn’t really care about nutrition. They were just focused on getting something on the table, which I understand considering their circumstances. However, fast-forward 20 years, and he is still gorging on a lot of the same stuff he had as a kid — burgers, pizza, fried chicken, soda. I was raised in a house where the kitchen was the heart of the home, and vegetables were the lifeblood. Good meals meant good times with ...