In addition to Trump’s being recognized, at last, as a career criminal, part of what has taken him down is his adoration of two of the most ruthless mass murderers we’ve seen over the past half-century: Vladimir Putin and Xi …
Trump’s Praise of the World’s Great Autocrats Worked for a While, Before It Didn’t Read More »
What does it mean when the President of the United States meets and congratulates Kyle Rittenhouse, a deranged young killer of sympathizers of the BLM movement? At the very least, it takes a society that previously regarded itself as sane …
It’s hard to know if Trump’s unflagging attacks on his enemies are a) part of a deliberate, personal policy, b) a neurotic compulsion, or c) a combination of the two. In any case, the good news is that this asinine …
What Anne Hathaway says here is spot-on. How sad that the Republicans have found yet another community of people to hate.
From a reader: I’m from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I am a former Republican. Basically, I was a Republican my whole life until about 2018 where I couldn’t accept being a Republican anymore. The Republican party now is nothing like it used to …
Ultra-right-wing whack-job “news” source Newsmax is conducting a survey (see left). If someone were asking people to weigh in on: “Should Trump have been charged with 34 country of falsifying business records?” that may have been interesting. But he’s clearly …
American conservatives, as represented by the Republicans, once stood for something that, while it might have been cruel, elitist, and retrogressive, was at least defensible. Now, it’s the party of sleaze, of overt criminality. It’s possible that Clarence Thomas lies …
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At left we have a statement, which, though it may not have set the world on fire, was sent by a sane and decent human being. Contrast that with what we have below, from a man whose principal claim to …
Contrasting Views on Easter from Two Political Leaders Read More »
Aristotle wrote a great deal on the subject of when to discontinue a friendship, or, in other words, where loyalty must be withdrawn. Spoiler alert: like the rest of the ancient Greek philosophers, and all others coming after him, Aristotle …
Earlier, I wrote a post based on a conversation with a conservative friend who bemoaned the fact that Republicans are having difficulty establishing a message that resonates with American voters. It’s true that most voters approve of what the Democrats …
