America at 250, why does progressive politics define the lives of so many of our fellow citizens, making them almost completely miserable?
As even Vox.com was honest enough to note, America in 1976 was in a far worse place than today, and yet Americans felt better about the country and the future. Before the results of the 2024 election were known on the evening of November 5, I encouraged everyone to remember their Billy Joel. At the…
If simple words like “temporary” don’t mean what everyone knows they mean, democracy is screwed
In 1990, Congress established a program for refugees that needed temporary relief, but somehow, almost no one admitted under the program ever left, the number admitted increased ten times in the past nine years, and proponents are now insisting they never should. In principle, I’m a supporter of the Temporary Protected Status program, which allows…
America at 250, confessions of a late blooming patriot on the principles and personalities that founded the greatest country in the world
It wasn’t until college when I was transformed by a James Madison quote, a timeless statement of truth, the equivalent of political poetry, illuminating something deep inside the heart of us all: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. I’ll confess: I wasn’t exactly a patriot early in life. A born cynic, probably…
The Democratic Socialists of America are devouring the Democrat Party, who are the real radicals now?
While the conventional wisdom holds that the Republicans have become increasingly extreme, the Democrats keeping picking proud socialists to be their standard bearers, some of the most radical politicians in history on a major party ticket. For at least a decade, the conventional wisdom has held that the Republican Party has become increasingly extreme, moving…
This is your Washington, DC Reflecting Pool on Trump Derangement
Vandals, hearings, lawsuits, pro-algae protesters, historians, pool experts, style experts, and more have all been brought to bear over renovations that have occurred consistently for more almost a hundred years. Sometimes, a seemingly minor situation, untethered from the broader sweep of history or human events, can be illustrative in a way great matters simply cannot,…
The Iran deal isn’t perfect, but its detractors have no plan and there’s an old expression that something’s better than nothing
Is the Memorandum of Understanding a staggering defeat as the critics suggest or a less than ideal path forward for a conflict that has been simmering for almost 50 years? To hear detractors tell it, President Donald Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding with Iran is nothing short of a humiliating defeat, an appeasement of if not…
When good news is bad, the wisemen are all fools once again
Two weeks in a row an economic report, first on jobs, then on retail spending, smashed expectations, only to be simultaneously dismissed as a positive trend and used as an excuse to raise interest rates. Two weeks ago, the moribund United States job market received a much needed jolt, when the May report from the…
Is Trump really desperate for a deal in Iran or is time much more on our side than widely reported?
Why would a man that’s supposed to be desperate beyond belief to end hostilities with any kind of deal, refuse one that was on the table, and make a reasonably big show of going back and forth about it? According to conventional wisdom, President Donald Trump is desperate to make a deal with Iran. Like…
Maine’s Graham Platner and the sad truth that everything Democrats say is bullshit
Top Democrats are rallying around a Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo, a long history of engaging in various sexual proclivities, and various other issues that make him somewhat Trumpian in the worst possible sense of the term according to his detractors. For more than a decade, Democrats and their progressive allies have insisted that…
Newark is the next battle in the immigration war and there will be more blood if progressives have their way
After an explosive January in Minneapolis, the progressive war against immigration enforcement subsided until recently, but this time, at least some local Democrat politicians are trying to keep the peace while placating the protestors. Earlier this year, progressives took to the streets of Minneapolis to protest immigration enforcement efforts with what many believed was the…
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