Suddenly, President Trump’s impeachment no longer seems implausible. The prospect for impeachment became more real this past week, after the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen revealed under oath that Trump, as a candidate, directed him to pay off a porn strumpet after she threatened ...
“Passion. Purpose. Pride.” The three words were emblazoned on her black T-shirt. Rainbow-colored and printed in undulating font, the three-word tautogram hung below the less-flashy name of her employer, Sweetgreen. Written only in plain white text, the “fast-casual” salad eatery was ...
Last March, the Philadelphia city government ended its working relationship with two Christian-based foster care agencies. The point of dispute: The agencies affirm the two-millennia-old belief that only man and woman form the complementary bond best for raising children. Hence, they do not place ...
President Trump will not be impeached. At least, if congressional Democrats, after retaking Congress in November, are shortsighted enough to begin the impeachment process, the media will turn on them faster than a gaggle of self-serving female senators turned on Al Franken. That’s because the ...
Elizabeth Warren, call your wigwam. The Wall Street warrior and Native American wannabe is about to have her baby snuffed out, like the Lakota at Wounded Knee. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a bureaucratic body created in the brutal aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to protect the ...
President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was prudent. While Lady Prudentia is not often a guest at the White House these days, I’m thankful when she pops in to temper policy. “Prudence,” said Burke, “is not only the first in rank of the ...
Poor Chris Hughes. Poor, poor, insanely rich Chris Hughes. The Facebook cofounder is the Bertie Wooster of digital philanthropy. Ever of good heart and dumbfounded by his moneyed position, Hughes is always looking to give the world a helping hand through whatever harebrained schemes pop out of the ...
Mark that one presidential promise unmet. The much-celebrated deal hatched between the incoming Trump administration and air conditioner manufacturer Carrier has fallen through. Last December, Trump put his famed negotiating skills to work to forestall the laying off of hundreds of employees from ...
Of all the unproductive and pernicious taxes, I"ve long regarded the estate tax as the most antithetical to a just society. To work your entire life and pass on your earnings to your next of kin is the thrust of civilization. Without it, we putter out and are forced to start again at square ...
Not to fall prey to bitter emotion is easier said than avoided. And, far more often than I"d like, I become the inflamed possession of spite's nefarious claw, particularly when reading and watching the media's coverage of President Trump. The recent fuss over Kathy Griffin's depiction of a ...
