This is going to sound facetious, but it’s not: The War on Terror is over and We Lost. Osama bin Laden never wanted to conquer America. He didn’t want to live in the White House or take a dump on Ronald Reagan’s grave. What he wanted to do was change America and he succeeded beyond …
“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.” Poor Donald. Those radical leftists in the Federal Bureau of Investigation just will not leave him alone. That sentence from former president Trump’s statement in reaction to an FBI raid searching for presidential …
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When I saw the adoring reception Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban received at this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference, one thought crossed my mind. Thank God Adolf Hitler is dead. Orban is infamous for taking steps that essentially are destroying democracy in his country, In a speech in his own country two weeks ago, he endorsed …
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If you could eliminate one thing from the world, what would it be? I’m not talking about people here. As much as I would love to live in a world without Donald Trump, there are countless people as bad or worse. I’m not talking about television, although a world in which it never existed might …
Today is the anniversary of one of the longest and saddest days of my life. On August 6, 2016, I got up at the proverbial crack of dawn and drove to the Atlanta airport to catch a flight to Denver. Just before midnight, I caught a redeye flight from Denver to Atlanta. I think I …
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.” Who would ever have thought Dick Cheney would say something that …
Selachimorpha. That’s a name I had never heard or seen until I looked it up a few minutes ago, but it describes an animal species made famous in the 1970s by filmmaker Stephen Spielberg. An animal, in fact, that almost seems to be overwhelming our culture now. Sharks. I was 25 when “Jaws” came out …
“What’s the matter with Kansas?” Apparently not as much as we may have thought. When Thomas Frank published his book “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” in 2004, the Sunflower State was used as an example of how Republicans used so-called cultural issues to get working class people to vote against their own economic interests. Kansas …
“For all the hard times, when you can say ‘why me’?… I have to remember the great moments in my life…and say why me?, too”. Vin Scully buried two wives, on of whom took her own life. He buried a son who died in a helicopter crash. He never complained, though, and when he died …
In 1920, the man who owned the Boston Red Sox needed money for a non-baseball purpose, so he sold budding superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. It was 2004 before the Red Sox won another World Series. In 1945, Chicago Cubs wouldn’t allow tavern owner William Sianis to bring his pet goat into …
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