“We are a minority-majority state, and the idea that the four candidates of color are not going to be on the stage to bring those perspectives, to really speak to those communities, is really not doing right by the voters,” said Betty Yee, a former state controller who is running for governor. The four candidates “of color,” Betty, like you, are polling in single digits. And the quality of thought you expressed in that statement explains why.

2. Nah, this guy was never part of Obama’s “Deep State”! MSNOW’s Symone Sanders-Townsend, maybe the worst of its propaganda-mongers but it’s a photo-finish among about eight of them, asked former CIA Director John Brennan about President Trump saying that the administration has been having conversations with Iran, while Iran’s parliamentary speaker denied it. Brennan replied, “Well, I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump, because he could not acknowledge the truth even when he’s slapped in the face with it repeatedly,” Brennan responded. Nice! I guess Brennan also believes Iran when it says the U.S. is “the Great Satan.” This is Jane Fonda-level disloyalty during wartime.

3. Here is how we end up with so many anti-white, anti-American racists in the black community. After a December game last year against the United States Military Academy where the Howard women’s basketball team “took a knee” during the National Anthem, the university installed a policy requiring its athletes to stand and show respect for the nation (that keeps its school afloat despite its discriminatory admissions policies). Instead of complying, the team decided to remain in the locker room during the anthem before games.

Vice President of Athletics Kery Davis “explained, fatuously, that the new standing mandate “is about supporting our students’ freedom of expression while upholding mutual respect for all communities.” She did not explain how refusing to appear on the court, standing or otherwise, is consistent with that objective, or how it qualifies as expression at all, since the team has never explicitly expressed what it’s supposed to mean. Like First Kneeler Colin Kaepernick, they probably don’t know. If it means, “I hate the United States,” then Howard could, and should, tell the girls that they can “protest” the existence of their own country all they want, but not when they are representing Howard.

4. “Dishonest, biased and stupid is no way to practice journalism,Erica.” New York Times reporter Erica Green thought she had a real “gotcha” on President Trump because…well, because she’s not too bright, sadly. Neither is the Times editor who allowed her idiocy to be published. “President Trump, who has long railed against mail-in voting — including on Monday, when he called it “mail-in-cheating” — used the method himself in a Florida special election scheduled to take place on Tuesday,” she wrote triumphantly in “Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail.”

Oh! Erica thinks this is hypocrisy, because she never learned what the word means. The sub-headline on this embarrassing story (the Times being the party embarrassed) also says, “Trump has long fixated on mail-in voting to bolster his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. But he recently used the method in a Florida special election.”

The latest example of Times ethics rot tracks with the flawed argument holding that if you believe that the mortgage interest deduction is bad policy, you are a hypocrite to deduct the interest in your own taxes. To put it another way, Erica believes that if you think a law or policy is wrong, it’s hypocritical to obey that law or derive the benefit of it like anyone else. To put it another way, Erica is an idiot.

Trump is President of the United States, and is using absentee voting, not mail-in voting. So she’s wrong on the facts. Second, his describing mail-in balloting as cheating obviously means that the practice makes voter fraud easier, which it does, thus rendering it unwise. His characterization does not mean that anyone using the deliberately insecure method is “cheating.”

I would expect Erica’s abysmal level of critical thinking in a middle school weekly paper, not a national newspaper. The Times, however, has apparently decided that any cheap shot against the President of the U.S. is a noble thing.