Welcome to the latest edition of our version of the lightning round, where there is not often much lightning but at least a bit of enlightenment. We’ll start with something that trades off a fun development Thursday that you can…
World War II ended almost 80 years ago. Much of Europe was in ruins. Germany and the Soviet Union probably suffered the most from the fighting. Perhaps Poland the most from the occupation. In a just world, the aggressors —…
Since May, the fashion among ecoterrorists has been to try to destroy famous works of art in sacrifice to their religion of global warming. In the May event, in the Louvre Museum in Paris, a transgender “woman,” protesting government inaction…
Be careful what you wish for, goes the old saying. Some 175 members of the House have signed on to co-sponsor HR 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. Every one of the co-sponsors is…
In the wake of a weekend of violent looting in Chicago that resulted in downtown bridges being raised and over a hundred arrests, Black Lives Matter held a rally in support of the looters late Monday night. They organized outside…
Democrats Are Winning the Big Money Game: Why Republicans Should Support Overturning Citizens United In the landmark Citizens United case, the Supreme Court used the idea “money is speech” to lift restrictions on “independent” expenditures, aka Super PACs. Sixty-six percent…
Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Charleston was another evening of forgettable cross-talk and demagoguery. The Democrats still haven’t gotten their act together. They more or less piled on Bernie Sanders, but it wasn’t all that impressive. They failed to knock him…
Ignored among current reparations discussions is the fact the South has already paid them — if not for slavery, then for losing the Civil War. For at least 25 years after the war, over half of the federal budget was…
If the “debate” to which the jostling scrum of Democratic presidential aspirants subjected the nation Tuesday is any guide, President Trump need not worry about losing his job in 2020. The most sensible participants were treated as unwelcome interlopers by…