William Murchison
You could say, as I’m sure vast numbers have, that “Trump started it.” But he didn’t, because he didn’t have to. Vast numbers had done it for him, and Donald Trump merely picked up where they had left off —…
In any “stupidest” or “most worthless” contest, America can confidently put its money on the President Donald Trump impeachment mess. What frivolity. What junk. What an irredeemable waste of valuable time. Almost irredeemable. I should make that clear. As Pliny…
In the middle of a muddle, there’s minimal sense in predicting outcomes. In other words, is the president’s former national security adviser speeding the president toward removal from office? (I strongly doubt that John Bolton’s version of President Donald Trump’s…
The essence of democracy is free speech, and the essence of free speech is assertion. For instance: Privately owned firearms should be confiscated. Everybody should own a firearm. No Republican’s any good. No Democrat’s any good. “The current president ……
The best thing about Bernie — need I explain, in the year of grace 2020, which Bernie ? — is how a frosty-haired old coot old enough to have been a high-school classmate of mine fires up kids who never…
If you … intend to be first in, and hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil your prisoners in oil (if you take any!), and torture his women and children, then people…
So. Another decade behind us, another in front. Journalists love nothing more than the opportunity to gaze analytically in either direction. “Fills up the paper,” we used to say, back when newspapers needed constant filling to complement the ads on…
Memorizing the Middle English of Geoffrey Chaucer — as required in the senior English curriculum of long ago — I found sheer repetition the ticket to success. Whan that Aprille … whan that Aprille … whan that Aprille … over and over…
Pretty much every American lacking a cemetery address understands the purpose of the rhetoric of the House Judiciary Committee’s report this week on impeachment: “betrayed the nation,” “threat to the Constitution,” “engaged in a pattern of misconduct.” And so on….
