The Government That Cried Wolf
For as long as anyone can remember, the United States government has wallowed in fear mongering. Now there’s actually a real legitimate threat to the national health, and many people, especially the...
View ArticleOn Foreign Policy, Joe Biden is Worse Than Trump
Trump is terrible. Biden is just as bad. In some ways the Democrat is worse. You shouldn’t vote for either one. Trump is erratic and unpredictable, which is...
View ArticleA Mask Too Far
Conservatives and Republicans slavishly follow government mandates on just about everything. So why are they freaking out over being asked to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic?
View ArticleWill the Media’s Newfound Stridency Continue under Biden? No.
“In his first rally since losing the election last month, President Trump continued to spout conspiracy theories about voter fraud, falsely claiming that he had defeated President-elect Joe...
View ArticleYour Opinion Doesn’t Matter. Protests Matter.
Your opinion doesn’t matter—not by itself. No matter how heartfelt or important to you personally, your thoughts about Gaza or legal weed or the war on skinny jeans don’t mean anything...
View ArticleI Know Why They Don’t Know
To me getting vaccinated was a simple decision: whatever risk there is from a relatively new technology is erased by the near certainty of severe illness if you get COVID-19. But a lot of Americans...
View ArticleColin Powell, Moral Weakling
If Colin Powell’s life has meaning, it is as a cautionary tale about the perils of going along to get along. Rarely has history offered such a stark example of a human being offered a...
View ArticleLiz Cheney, Hero of the Democratic Party
Politics makes strange bedfellows and the enemy of my enemy is my friend but Congressional Democrats’ love of right-wing lunatic Liz Cheney has completely gone off the rails. Yes, she hates Trump but...
View ArticleWe Will Never Be so Stupid Again until We Are
This is a really stupid country and it gets even stupider during war. After war fever abides and people calm down, they inevitably look back and wonder what the hell they were thinking. Then it...
View ArticleDon’t Feel Sorry for the Gazans
Supporters of Israel sometimes say that the people of Gaza deserve collective punishment because they support Hamas, which carried out terrorist attacks against Israel. Setting aside the fact that...
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