Happy Presidents Day from Washington, where government employees use social media to take Lincoln down a peg, Fred Lucas reports. The Biden administration foolishly seeks to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal, Peter Brookes and Jim Phillips argue. On the podcast, historian Craig Shirley tells why his latest book focuses on a historic month almost 77 years ago. Plus: Victor Davis Hanson on Hillary Clinton’s conduct; Dennis Prager on religions’ submission to a pandemic crackdown; and Larry Elder on Joe Rogan’s language. Fifty years ago today, President Richard Nixon takes an unexpected step toward normalizing relations with Communist China by traveling to Beijing for talks calculated to drive a wedge between China and the Soviet Union.
Ford’s Theatre, site of Lincoln’s assassination, asks: “What do you think might be a more useful, more complex, or more realistic way to think about or memorialize the 16th president?”
The Obama administration’s agreement with the Iranian regime was seriously flawed, and returning to the deal only will postpone Tehran’s potential nuclear threat to the U.S. and its allies.
