Losing Our Humanity

The shitstorm over Trump’s shit hole remark is remarkable because of its predictability. No, I don’t speak of the vulgarian-in-chief’s routinely intemperate ways. I refer to the reactions and counter-reactions, which have become as predictable as the...

About Those Shitholes

Today’s installment of the Trump side show is the sturm-und-drang around his alleged description of Haiti and some African nations as “shitholes,” in regard to a proposal to offer special protections for immigrants from those countries. Trump...

They’re Our Geese!

Proving that there’s no more dangerous place on earth than the space between a liberal politician and other people’s money, the governors of California and New York have been seething over the part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that limits the deductibility...

Performance Plus

History is replete with broad ripples caused by a single act by a single person. Gavrilo Princip, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosa Parks, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, an unknown man in Tiananmen Square, Thich Quang Duc, John Wilkes Booth, and countless others changed world...

What We Take For Granted

A recent announcement in the UK, that all non-essential surgery scheduled in January is to be cancelled in order to free up hospital space in expectation of a heavy flu season, raises a reality that advocates for socialized medicine in America routinely overlook or...