Whatever your political stripes, if you’re an American, I urge you occasionally to take in a few minutes of Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, or perhaps some other source of far-right-wing programming that I may have missed. A couple of points …
The Mass of News Reporting in the United States Is Pathetic Read More »
The answer to the question here is no. There are two solid reasons that tens of millions of American voters still stand behind Trump: 1) A great number of rich people who were tragically born without a moral compass understand …
When we look back on the opening of Trump’s second term as U.S. president and try to identify a pattern, something emerges that would have been unthinkable anytime earlier in American history. Apparently without any real thought, and on any …
It’s unclear how/if the sign here is actually helping matters, but that’s not the point. “Natural” disasters like massive floods are increasingly common and severe, and emergency management for events of this scale are impossible to implement effectively at the …
Trusting any politician to tell the truth about his/her true motives is a foolish venture. In reality, why is Joni Ernst hanging it up? Anybody’s first guess would be that somehow she finds it morally unacceptable to continue to be …
Republican Senator Won’t Run for Re-election in 2026 Read More »
Yesterday I met one of the creators of the modern “Superman” movie series, and he asked me if I was going to see his latest piece of work. I explained, “No, I don’t avail myself of this entire genre. I …
Tristan Snell is a lawyer and legal commentator featured on MSNBC and NPR, and in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. There are bound to be a few sociopaths in any society, and, if that society is a democracy, these nut-jobs …
Interesting concept here. Do all Trump voters approve of everything their leader says and does? Probably not. But overall, they see him as making America great (and white) again by taking actions like mass deportations and punishing everyone but his …
In the 45 years I’ve lived in/near Los Angeles, there have been few major changes. It’s still the entertainment capital of the world, while continuing to feature obnoxious traffic and housing prices. Like most if not all of the largest …
Before Trump, no politically active U.S. citizen thought he was taking a risk to his personal safety by criticizing the president and/or his administration. This country, and, in fact, the entire West, had experienced the Enlightenment (aka the Age of …
Our Reasons to Feel Safe from Government Are Not What They Used to Be Read More »
