“Violence is as American as cherry pie.” -H. Rap Brown The critical mid-term elections are only a week away, and the prospect of the Republicans taking over at least one, and perhaps both, Houses of Congress is growing, due to three major factors: a first-term president always loses seats due…

On October 31, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in cases against two elite universities, Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that are likely to end any consideration of race in college admissions decisions. The arguments from both sides are as binary as it gets…

Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) -Ethel Merman Men have been screwing up since the beginning of recorded history. While Moses was arguably the greatest Old Testament Superstar, his mess up with God cost him the chance to lead his people into the Promised Land. More recently, Donald…

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to get bored with winning” -Donald J. Trump For a guy who claims to be nothing but a winner in life, former president Trump has a legal losing streak that even the New York Jets can’t match. First there is his 1–64…

The old joke about Finns is that the way to tell an introverted Finn from an extroverted one is that the former looks at his shoes when he talks to you, and the latter looks at your shoes. Well, defying this stereotype is Sanna Marin, the country’s 36 year old…

The Georgia Grand Jury, the January 6 Committee, the New York Attorney General investigation, the seemingly stagnant Manhattan DA probe, the plea deal for his former accountant, etc., etc. Yes, former President Donald Trump’s legal woes seem to mount by the day. So many that the missing text messages of…

“You see the mob takes the Fifth.” -Donald J. Trump Of the many weird and factually challenged statements Donald Trump has made over the years, it is hard to beat his self-flattering favorable comparisons, to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president who merely preserved the Union and freed the slaves, for…

Needing all the victories he can get to counter his sagging poll numbers, President Biden received an unlikely booster in West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who put aside his prior recalcitrance and announced last week that he would now support the president’s climate change and inflation reduction legislation. Of course…

The massacre of 19 third graders and two of their teachers in Uvalde, Texas has evoked still raw memories of the all too similar occurrence in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, but the political reactions remain remarkably the same. The gun lobby, otherwise known as Republicans who carry, calls for increased…