June 6, 2022

The Most Terrifying Reality about School Shootings

The initial reaction to the mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas was horror and bewilderment.  Not again.  How could this happen?  Perhaps you, like me, imagined that the killer shot his way into the school and wroug...

April 12, 2022

After a gang shooting, who should be deprived of guns?

Six were killed in Sacramento at 2 A.M. on April 3, in an area packed with bars, restaurants, and nightclubs just blocks from California's Capitol Building.  A dozen more were wounded.  The toll could easily have been worse: 1...

July 8, 2021

Ready for Soviet-style black markets?

A story is told (Who knows if it's true? It was long before the internet) about how residents of the former Soviet Union bought and sold vegetables.  Comrades could buy them from government-run stores at state-mandated prices, but the p...

June 30, 2021

The incredible shrinking Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is creating a problem.  That comes as a surprise.  I figured she'd be president by now.  The cognitive decline of the Elected Official Formerly Known as Joe Biden is plain to see.  The old Joe...

June 18, 2021

The US Government as a Sleazy Salesman

I know a guy who knows a guy who used to be a vacation timeshare salesman.  I say "salesman" with apologies to honest salespeople everywhere: he was a hustler.  To give you a sense of his era, he drove a Lincoln Continen...

May 21, 2021

The real Joe Biden stands up — again

Our current situation, threatening as it is to all we hold dear as Americans, is not in any way comfortable.  That said, it offers benefits.  One of them is this: people are revealing themselves for who they are.  Gone a...

May 6, 2021

There Is No Crisis

Among the biggest elephants in the White House briefing room is the border. Until recently, press secretary Jen Psaki just told the truth about it. “There is no crisis at the border,” she said. And of course there isn’t, from where ...

April 17, 2021

A Place of Honor in Every Black Home

Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in 1862 and orphaned at 16, rose to fame as a journalist by shining light on things we didn't want to see — in particular, the horror of lynching.  Five thousand Americans were lynched over 90 years...

April 7, 2021

Things We Can Live Without

It must be pleasant to be a liberal. Every political principle fits on a bumper sticker. All problems can be chalked up to (1) racism, (2) capitalism, (3) global warming, or (4) Donald Trump.  Liberals soak in a fragrant bubble bath of thei...

April 1, 2021

The Coming Rebranding

Nissan sold cars and trucks for decades before entering the U.S. market. In some nations they were marketed as Nissans; here they were badged as Datsuns, a brand the parent company has owned since the ‘30s. When 1970s gas crises sent U.S. sales...

March 18, 2021

The Wokening of Language Bodes Ill for Free Thought

No one speaks English like the English.  From the poetry of Shakespeare to the humor of Monty Python, British wordsmiths use language to teach lessons.  The English writer speaking most prophetically at this moment is George Orwel...

March 13, 2021

Prizes for Me, but not for Thee

“The Devil rewards the Devil’s own in the Devil’s currency,” a wise woman told me. She may have meant the actual Devil, or perhaps was speaking metaphorically. I believe in the Devil. You may not. (Do you believe in angels? Is...

March 7, 2021

Leftists Start a Pillow Fight with Mike Lindell

It began with throw pillows.  Pillows shouldn't matter much, but like every decision we make now, they matter more than you think. The old sofa had to go.  It had lasted 25 years, by some miracle.  The old sofa wa...

March 4, 2021

What We Know And Don’t Know About The Events Of January 6th

It takes three days after any event to find out what happened, and 30 days to find out what really happened. The dust storm of information and misinformation takes a while to settle in the perpetually-online United States. The truth lodges in fewer p...