I live in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Across the Susquehanna River and a couple of miles distant from downtown Harrisburg, where, on the just-back-from-the-banks of the Susquehanna, behind a black fence, sits the official, decidedly majestic, Governor’s Mansion that Pennsylvanians provide…
The picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sitting in first class en route to a “Fighting Oligarchy” rally hosted by Bernie Sanders tells a thousand words. A few of those words? People who shout the loudest about fighting for “the people” rarely…
Anyone foolish enough to take seriously the rhetoric of the Democrats concerning the reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump on “Liberation Day” will experience two sensations — dread and confusion. This unpleasant combination was inevitable due to the strident denunciation…
The conventional wisdom in Washington holds that President Donald Trump’s November victory, combined with the whirlwind of activity that has characterized his first several weeks in office, has created disarray among Democrats. Like most things “everyone knows,” however, this view…
Who says history doesn’t repeat? Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett is, inadvertently to be sure, recalling the ghost of a long-ago Democrat congressman who, as is becoming true of today’s Rep. Crockett, became an unwitting but mighty asset to Republicans of…
The venerable logical principle known as “Occam’s razor,” attributed to the 14th-century English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham, asserts that when confronted with multiple possible explanations for a causal phenomenon, the simplest explanation is — absent persuasive evidence to…
As is his habit, television’s Bill Maher went straight to the point. Here’s the headline from Breitbart: “Bill Maher Says ‘F**k You’ to Critics of His Scheduled Trump White House Meeting.” Breitbart reported it this way, quoting Maher directly: “Kid Rock was…
Well, it’s been a pretty clarifying week, more or less. There is so much going on that trying to decide what to include and exclude in this week’s installment of the 5QT is an exercise in paralysis by analysis, but…
