What doesn’t appear in major media is the sorry and cowardly depth of America’s feckless response to the Iranian people’s appeals for aid and assistance in escaping the terrible Aryan Islamofascist regime that brutalizes them.

Maybe that’s an ungenerous way to respond to a study on an important social issue by a respected, nonpartisan think tank. But, if you’ve been paying any attention at all, that may be your instinctive reaction to last week’s report from the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute quantifying that Republicans, as a corporate body, are the most racist folks there are.

Italy has elected its first female prime minister. Normally that would be cause for celebration by those who promote diversity, but press reaction in Europe and the United States is treating Giorgia Meloni as the second coming of Italian dictator and Adolf Hitler ally, Benito Mussolini.

Pretending that poor families headed by single mothers are just victims of a tough economy absolves the living fathers of all responsibility. That’s what happens when you let the dads disappear from stories of families in financial peril.

Crime isn’t a racial issue; it’s about affording all Americans, and especially vulnerable communities, the protection they deserve from lawlessness. Obviously, violent crime is not a blight on the lives of upper middle-class white people.

Keep an eye on what matters, not what you imagine others think of you.

No American woman risks being carted off to jail for allowing too much hair to show from beneath her scarf. On the other hand, she — or her doctor — may face that fate if she has an abortion, thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling that robbed women of that right. That, however, is but one iteration of the larger age-old struggle for control of women’s bodies.

The Commitment to America plan promises to reduce government spending — the main driver of debt which accompanies record high inflation — control the Southern border and the migrants and drugs pouring in, as well as attack violent crime.

The crux of the matter is that the Biden Administration dismantled or downgraded every policy that had established control over the Southern border under his predecessor and is directly responsible for the record number of illegal immigrants flooding into the country. If the influx wasn’t so large, there’d be fewer migrants to sign up for the bus trips north and east to blue cities sponsored by Texas and Arizona.

Liberals in general, and Justice Elena Kagan in particular, are upset by the decisions of the conservative majority.