Barbarism surrounds us. ICE thugs have once again shot a man, this time in New York City, firing seven shots into a car while the man's five-year-old son was in the back seat. Yes, this guy did reportedly have a criminal record. Of course, even though the video evidence does not support it, the justification is usually...

According to a recent Gallup poll, 89 percent of Americans say corruption is widespread in the U.S. government. Apparently, the other 11 percent are incredibly optimistic or incredibly obtuse. Or they are the billionaires that seem to hover around the White House. And just when you think Washington couldn't provide a b...

I don't watch Congressional hearings often. I find them of little value, a platform for members of Congress to interrupt and berate those they interview, while they create social content so they can go back to their constituents and claim how they are fighting for them. But this week was fun. This was theatre (you'll s...

Mea culpa. My mistake. I owe MAGA an apology. Back in 2024, MAGA supporters, and their cultish leader, Donald Trump, repeatedly cautioned that if I voted for Kamala Harris, I would regret it. They warned that inflation would run wild. We wouldn't be able to afford groceries or gas, mortgages or medicine. They said we'd...

In a column last month, I suggested that our leaders might want to reevaluate their priorities and perhaps spend a little more time worrying about the things that actually matter to ordinary Americans. Whew! They listened. Apparently, somebody at the White House read my column because President Trump has decided that t...

This week America's national debt hit $40 trillion. That's forty trillion with a T, a number of such enormity, it's difficult to comprehend. So, let me give you a couple of examples. · Suppose the federal government found an extra billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.00) every single day and devoted every penny...

I texted a friend of mine this week, and, as is so often the case with my efficient one-finger texting, I made an error. And to compound my own error, my phone decided to make its own changes to my corrected message, correcting my corrections. What I texted was "Sorry, I mis-keyed that last text; I meant to say......

Our nation's capital has offered lots of surprises in the last 18 months. It might be fun to predict what else we might see before year-end. I admit that I haven't anticipated much of the chaos and frenzy that's happened, but hey, let's take a shot. So, here are my predictions for the remainder of 2026. Have at it and ...

Real people experience anxiety, humiliation, financial hardship, and fear. Political headlines often reduce them to names, but behind every indictment, insult, or public accusation is someone with a family, a reputation, and a life. Lately, we seem to forget that. Or perhaps we've simply stopped caring. It is sad that ...

My mom and dad never had a lot of money. Neither of them had the advantage of a college education, and they both worked hard in their blue-collar jobs. We never went hungry, but we didn't have a lot of luxuries. They bought a small home, paid it off, and lived there until they couldn't live without assistance. But they...

For years we've been assured that racism is no longer an American problem. Sure, slavery was bad, unless you read the modified Smithsonian history, but we're good now. Systemic racism? Liberal fake news. White privilege? America has evolved. In fact, according to MAGA media, Whites might be eligible for reparations for...

Democrats are looking to flip the U.S. Senate in November. One tantalizing target is in Maine, where current Senator Susan Collins has supported Trump policies at well over 90 percent in his second term, but has had the temerity to oppose Trump on a couple of pet projects. So, understandably Trump does not like her. De...

Joe Biden's border policy was a disaster. We all knew it and many of us were critical of the past president's position on immigration. Yes, both sides make mistakes. But Biden's failures continue. There is a dangerous, flesh-eating parasite invading our country, causing chaos, costing consumers, and impacting American ...

Bill Clinton was an orator. Ronald Reagan was a communicator. Thomas Jefferson was a communications savant. And now we have Donald Trump. Have you listened to his rhetoric? The guy who hates late night comedy more than vegetables, keeps giving comedians their best material for free. Kimmel's writers could not improve o...

The Midterms are coming, we'll have to decide, Do we stick with the Trump team, and stay on this ride? Is the cult so intact, is the Kool Aid so sweet That we all just go along with each deranged tweet? Or will voters consider that there's news beyond Fox? Perhaps the time's come to think outside the box. To look at ev...

My grandson said last month, "I'm used to it," when his mother (my daughter) asked him about some less-than-professional language used by friends at his school. A few years ago, a neighbor wanted to discuss an issue that had upset him, and we agreed to talk. After dropping two f-bombs in his first sentence, I...

History may describe it as "legislative ingenuity," or it may be recorded as "partisan insanity." If future history books are like today's news networks, you may be able choose either version by simply shopping for the history book that fits your bias. The current judicial system will probably decid...

I asked for your input, and you delivered. In a March 20 column I asked you, the people who take the time to read these opinions, if you have had any relationships impacted by current political issues... "Tell me what caused the changes, and the current status, or your plans going forward. If there has been no imp...

This should be the announcement from Democrats: "We are ending NO KINGS rallies. Future protests will now be called NO KING OF KINGS rallies." In a future Saturday Night Live skit that writes itself, President Trump has accused Pope Leo of being "soft on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy....

"We're a big country," Donald Trump said. "We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things." I have a similar problem - with all of the chaos and turmoil our country is currently going thro...