Professors of Politics: Now Even THE SCIENCE Tells You to Dump Trump!

A new report just released by the U.K.’s Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health has recommended England immediately bans the smacking of children in its entirety—bad news for those deviants like me who pursue the practice as a part-time hobby, just for the fun of it. Whilst I and the other members of my local underground child-abuse club disagree profoundly with the proposal, I would nonetheless grudgingly admit there are plausible arguments on both sides of this particular debate...or so I had naively thought. Previously, I had presumed the idea of smacking kids with the back of ...

Four Radical Reforms to Shrink the Federal Budget

It was nearly 50 years ago that a liberal Congress completely dominated by Democrat big spenders passed a new set of budget rules -- the Congressional Budget and Impoundment ...

California State Capitol

Invisible Monsters, Imaginary Heroes

Did I ever tell you about the time one elderly Nazi took on and beat the entire U.S. government, the neocons, the military-industrial complex, and Israel? It’s a hell of a ...

Columbia University Library

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Here I Am at Intifada

Between the kangaroo court show trials of Donald Trump, the continued persecution of the J6 political prisoners, whose fates (and most likely ours too) are tied to his, and the ...

Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture

Democracy may not be the silliest idea concocted by man, but for anything larger than a small town, it is crackpot. It consists in the idea that a public, on average knowing ...

Abraham Hamadeh

Trump Not Sending His Best

Picture your ideal Republican candidate. Would they look something like this? 1. An "anchor baby" (technically, "illegal immigrant"); 2. Parents were illegal aliens from Syria, ...

Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics

If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad? The latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business could hardly ...

The Right’s Burnt Offerings

In a column last December, I pointed out that whenever some schizo shoots up a place, and it’s revealed that he left a trail of “red flags” behind, rightists indignantly ...

Houses of Parliament

Bent Politicians

What’s your definition of bravery? Rushing into a burning building to save a sizzling baby? Holding off an entire platoon of soldiers from capturing your lonely position ...

When Ideology Trumps Sanity

Inundated by the constant tidal wave of horrible news hitting us here at home, as well as abroad as the world finds itself in the express lane toward a massive regional Middle ...

Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time

President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out he's right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying ...

Trade Is Evil?

Leaders of both parties agree: We must reduce globalization. "China is ripping us on trade," says Donald Trump. Our trade deficit is "an immorality," says Nancy Pelosi. But ...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles … and Trucks

The Biden administration has announced in recent weeks new stringent emissions requirements for virtually the entire American transportation system. The Environmental Protection ...

Does the New York Times Actually Care About Mass Shootings?

Did you know there was a mass shooting in Indianapolis over the weekend? I briefly saw it on a news crawl, but didn't hear another word about it, so, by Monday, I assumed I had ...


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