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When will a presidential election NOT be the most important of our lifetime? That's the question John Darkow asked in his widely-reprinted cartoon this week about the upcoming election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.... More
The conservative Family Research Council is out with its latest congressional scorecard. Shocking no one, it's yet another reminder that the conservative organization's overwhelming interest in promoting families extends little further than a woman's womb.... More
In deciding to frame the 2020 election as an apocalyptic showdown between free enterprise capitalism and government-controlled socialism, national Republican party strategists hope to shift attention away from the chaos and uproar of the Trump... More
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gavin Newsom has not only acted swiftly to save 737 souls on California's death row, but he has also had the courage to call state-sponsored executions what they are: uncivilized. "I... More
The problem is more obvious than half a leech on the sneeze guard of a salad bar: we're paying much too much attention. Our national obsession with new news concerning the man blundering about the... More
Cash is king - but here comes the guillotine! I've heard numerous stories about pennies and nickels costing more to mint than they're worth. But I didn't realize the extent to which debit cards, apps... More
Ah, St. Patrick's Day is upon us - which means it's time for retailers, and too many other Americans, to perpetuate the "drunken Irishman" stereotype. Here's what three typical St. Patrick's Day T-shirts available at... More
After the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last year, it really shouldn't be a struggle to condemn anti-Semitism. In fact, after the Holocaust, there shouldn't be any heavy moral lifting at... More
Donald Trump is remarkably cheerful for a man sitting in the smoking ruins of his presidency. He promised to get tough with China and end our trade imbalance. This week, the Department of Commerce reports... More
I was out of the country for a week with my wife, but when we got back it was like nothing had changed. The national media were still yakking and arguing about the same BS... More
It's hard to believe Richard Nixon, the consummate, disciplined insider, and Donald Trump, the shambolic, impulsive outsider, have anything in common, but it's true. Both men shared the belief that winning a national election should... More
The experience of two Republican lawmakers from Pennsylvania - a state that President Donald Trump won in 2016, and one that remains critical to his reelection chances - tells us a lot about the state... More
As it should be, China is very much at the center of the national conversation. Over one billion people live there. They constitute the largest single potential market for U.S. goods and services anywhere in... More
The U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill that would require health care professionals to provide life-saving medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion. It's difficult to write such a sentence without... More
After several years of driving with a clean record, most of it while I was awake, the unthinkable happened.On a recent drive, after turning up the radio while singing along with the high parts of... More
Remember the good ol' days of shade tree mechanics, denim patches and Emmett's Fix-It Shop on "Mayberry R.F.D."? The growing complexity and fragility of high-tech consumer products (smartphones, tablets, video game consoles, microwave ovens, tractors,... More
Democrats applying to be their party's next presidential nominee constitute the second largest growth industry in America surpassed only by those providing legal advice to Trump Administration staffers. It's a number climbing to where it... More
The Trump regime has trafficked in self-parody since its inception, so perhaps we're already numb to the news that it intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency. You... More