End State: Tolerant or Totalitarian?

We all sit down on occasion and have a good natter, putting worlds to right and solving all of our problems. Totalitarian solutions may be jokingly suggested and laughed off—if ...

El Paso, TX

My Nation-Unifying Impeachment Solution

Senate Republicans should offer to convict Donald Trump in return for Democrats agreeing to fund the wall. Trump is not going to run again anyway. In four years, he will be as ...

Of Rioters, Protesters & Patriots

To Parliament, in the London of George III, the Boston Massacre of 1770 and the Tea Party of 1773 were not seen in the same light as they were by the Sons of Liberty in the ...

Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End

When it was learned in 2016 that Russia may have hacked the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and passed the fruits on to WikiLeaks to aid candidate Donald Trump, mighty was the ...

King Charles I of England

“By What Lawful Authority?”

In a few days, a trial will begin in the Senate of the United States to decide if the former President Donald J. Trump is guilty or not guilty of inciting an insurrection against ...

Federal Reserve Bank, Washington D.C.

Your Money or Your Life: Capitalism as the New Communism (and Vice Versa)

“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Long ago, in a universe of sane fiscal policy far, far away, there ...

The Con Is (Back) On!

Back again like a boomerang Same old stand, same old gang Back in business with a bang Let the good times roll! —“Back in Business,” from the movie Dick Tracy Stephen ...

Truth in the Crosshairs

The question of what is truth has been around since the Greeks, perhaps even before that. One can speak of moral truth as well as of aesthetic truth, yet scientific truth seems to ...

Is the Establishment Still Terrified of Trump?

As soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of "incitement of insurrection" in the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol, Rand Paul ...

How Do You Solve a Problem Like a MAGA Part II: Tard Harder

There are two courses of action that MAGAs can take in the wake of the debacle that was 1/6: learn from one of the worst strategic disasters in American political history, or, ...

Come Back, America

Donald Trump got himself into terrible trouble for referring to some African countries as “s---holes.” The fact is, most people who live in those countries would probably ...

The Year of the Three Presidents

Until the moment Donald J. Trump was informed that his successor had taken the oath of office, he was President of the United States. And what an ignominious ending it was. What ...

Biden’s America: One Nation or Us Versus Them?

"We have met the enemy and he is us," said Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment. Rereading President Joe ...

First Duty of the Press: Make it About Race

Why can't liberals ever just let Trump hang himself? Isn't what he's actually done bad enough? No, the media always have to punch up the story, layering lie upon lie, until normal ...

Joe Biden

Now, the Left Owns It All

That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left. The death of a Capitol cop has enabled the left -- which ...

How Do You Solve a Problem Like a MAGA?

Sometimes you chase the story, and sometimes the story chases you. Two weeks ago I’m walkin’ through Century City, the business, residential, and dining district adjoining ...


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