April 18, 2025

Truman did it. Why can’t we let Musk try?

Government waste is nothing new.  During World War II, Senator Harry Truman headed a committee that rooted out fraud and inefficiency in defense contracts.  It saved billions of dollars for taxpayers — some estimates say aro...

April 11, 2025

No, a 50-percent tariff doesn’t mean a 50-percent price hike

The tariff doomsday machine is roaring again.  This time, it’s over talk of a 50% tariff on certain imports.  Predictably, the panic-peddlers are out in force, warning that such a tariff means retail prices will skyrocket 50...

April 8, 2025

Time to tariff up: Stop funding our own collapse

For the past fifty years, Americans have been sold a fantasy: that global “free trade” would benefit everyone, everywhere.  That letting factories go abroad and turning our economy into a service-sector playground would somehow ...

July 19, 2024

An Evangelical Welcomes Catholic JD Vance

As a staunch member of the religious right, a pastor associated with fundamentalism, and a strong advocate of Jewish and Christian values, I would like to welcome the Catholic J.D. Vance and his Hindu wife, Usha, to leadership in the Republican Party...

July 2, 2024

Yes, the Supreme Court got it right

On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision affirming that presidents have immunity for official acts carried out during their tenure, extending the precedent set in Nixon v. Fitzgerald.  This ruling not only solidifies im...

April 6, 2020

A populace kept fearful is ripe for abuse

At his inauguration to the presidency in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." In our lifetime, however, the government has become the biggest purveyor of fear the world has ever know...