There’s a great deal of ink spilled through the years about the friendship between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill. The two-term Republican president and the Democratic …
We are not anywhere near Kansas anymore. Nor are we in a capitalist system recognizable to anyone who has ever believed in open markets, fair competition, or the separation of business and state. …
A warning to all three of you who read this stuff I write (probably two now, because the one guy who thinks I use Google to reference basic historical facts likely has tired of my scrawlings): what …
There is a point in the unraveling of a nation when the distance between law and lawlessness blurs until both are indistinguishable. That point has arrived in the United States. Its presence is …
The one thing governments do excessively well is legislate, and most of that is directed at solving a particular problem in a dramatic and supposedly final way. It’s kind of like your dad …
A lot of hay has been made as of late over the dropping approval of the job done by President Donald Trump during the first five months into his second term. Most outlets have reported a …
Somewhere along the way, I found that age has crept up on me. It wasn’t the creaking joints, or the excessively grey, yet excessively thinning, hair, or the need to keep myself parked in a …
What’s your name? Who’s your daddy? Is he rich like me? Has he taken Any time To show you what you need to live? (Tell it to me slowly) tell you why? …
The current fashionable thing among politicians and media outlets is to suddenly realize that for years, President Joe Biden was in a state of decline, both physically and mentally. What is sad …
When President Trump signed Executive Order 14297 earlier this year, dramatically titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients”, it came with all …
A lot of hay has been made as of late over the dropping approval of the job done by President Donald Trump during the first five months into his second term. Most outlets have reported a …
Among the myriad sins conservatives are accused of — fascism, misogyny, racism, et al — another to add to the list is the memory capacity of goldfish. When the public and elected …
Kristi Noem looked straight into the camera this week, seated before Congress, and refused to admit the obvious that the infamous photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia with MS-13 tattoos inked across his …
Among the dizzying array of news stories to surface in the past several days, regarding the tawdry reality show that the body politic has settled into, one of my favorite old-school slang terms …
Traditionally, in off-year elections (those that don’t include the presidential race), voter turnout is low. Also just as traditionally, I admonish the voting public about said turnout. …
Rural America has a severe drug problem. According to figures gleaned from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) 2021 survey on nationwide drug use and …
I always have liked Texas. I was born in the state, even though life whisked me away early. Still, it has a lot going for it — a robust economy, great places, the best barbecue — and …
When U.K. rappers Harlem Spartans rapped, “Splash man down with the rambo, then I make it bang like a skeng,” they could have been describing Trump’s M.O. of saying crazy stuff with …
A guy I admire who wrote by the name of Mark Twain once defined patriotism as “supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Twain’s …
Ronald Reagan was known for his approach to the economy, that while drawing much criticism, was based on the idea that change in all forms comes from the top. This, of course, was called …
