”For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
On January 10, 1776, impassioned Americans — from the streets of the Colonies to private meetings in taverns — were moved by an anonymous pamp…
I have never been a free speech absolutist. I am, however, somewhat closer to being a First Amendment absolutist.
It’s too easy to point fingers at U.S. President Donald Trump and his rhetoric about the election having been “stolen” from him as the reason …
Donald Trump was the president of Twitter.
Twitter and Facebook have permanently banned President Trump from their social platforms. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and a…
Why should we be surprised that at a time when everything is supposed to be about race, from the skin color of certain newspaper editors force…
Wednesday was a sad day for America.
The mob violence that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was deplorable and disgusting. It is the antithesis of a free society that wis…
The president of the United States incited a mob. It was a disgraceful, inexcusable, impeachable act.
My father had terminal lung cancer. He fought like a Spartan at Thermopylae, his body riddled with chemo and radiation, his stomach filled wit…
As President Trump’s White House days dwindle, he’s taking strong action to shore up measures that will make the asylum process more secure, a…
President Donald Trump has turned a narrow electoral defeat into a bid for infamy.
I don’t like making predictions for a new year because they are just guesses and like palm readers, fortune-tellers and “experts,” guesses are…
Ok, let’s get the obvious out of the way. 2020 was the year of COVID-19, also known as corona (minus the lime), the plague, the super crud, or…
Behold science, the sword and the shield of progressivism.
How should the huge financial costs of the pandemic be paid for, as well as the other deferred needs of society after this annus horribilis?
Because bible-pounding has become a favored tactic of politicians, it was only a matter of time before one of the cabinet choices of the incom…
It’s been a terrible year for the American worker, with a notable bright spot courtesy of one of the tech firms in the crosshairs of regulator…
From the looks of President-elect Joe Biden’s selections for cabinet positions and other high offices it seems belief in “climate change” has …
“Burn in Hell.”
The end of this sad, strange, historic and transformative year is almost upon us. And like a lot of you, I found myself burrowing into ritual,…
Throughout Donald Trump’s captivity of the GOP, many Republicans have held fast to the hope that after he leaves office, the party can return …
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even worse thing to manufacture.
A phrase one hears this time of year is about gifts that “keep on giving.” Most store-bought gifts are soon forgotten, but are there some gift…
Now that we are well into the month of December, my three teenage daughters have provided me with their extensive Christmas lists — both elect…
“Hello. I’m Grandpa.”
In normal times, most people don’t think of vaccines as a political issue at all. But a small minority — one that defies easy pigeonholing on …