The most frequently quoted one-liner about impeachment is Gerald Ford’s: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers [it] to be at a given moment in history.” Former President Ford was a honorable man who…
Meanwhile, while we are talking about leadership, let’s not forget AOC and her “Squad” and the “Green New Deal.” This is her plan to completely stop using fossil fuels and eating meat within the next 11 years. This, supposedly, is…
When students at Hillsdale College spotted an unidentified flying object hovering above campus in March 1966, the national media’s attention turned to the small Michigan school. Camera crews and reporters descended on the college and the town surrounding it, eager…
Here was the headline in the Washington Post: Trump takes over Fourth of July celebration, changing its location and inserting himself into the program The story, among other things, said this, bold print supplied for emphasis: President Trump has effectively taken…
Nathaniel Hawthorne, call your office. Hester Prynne, your fictional protagonist, had a scarlet letter “A” imprinted on her dress, to wear in public and thus advertise to the end of her life her adulterous relationship. Hester was ostracized, a punishment…
Presidents Trump and Putin have announced the site for their first summit meeting: Helsinki. It’s a dubious choice, a place of bad history between American statesmen and Russian thugs. Hopefully it’s not a bad omen for Donald Trump. If Trump…
The taxman cometh. He cometh for other taxmen even. And it turns out tax-happy states like Uncle Sam extracting his take about as much as the rest of us do. Congress imposed a $10,000 limitation in December on state and…