Can you remember when you never dreamed our country could never lose? When you went to church and found spiritual consolation, when people knew what the Fourth of July stood for, and when you took it for granted that the elderly and the clergy were to be respected. When you didn’t feel embarrassed to say […]

President Donald Trump’s impeachment letter to Nancy Pelosi is nothing if not sincere. The missive establishes, if there were any doubt, that Trump hates impeachment with a passion, and he expresses his contempt in his own inimitable voice — scornful, hyperbolic, colloquial, on brand (Russia Witch Hunt, Do Nothing Democrats, etc.) and, above all, aggrieved. […]

While watching “Jeopardy” the other night, I had a fantasy. Suppose Alex Trebek had a Final Jeopardy category called “The Ultimate Impeachment Hypocrite”? Here’s how I thought it might go. Trebek: “We go first to Joe, who is in third place, and he wrote, ‘Who is Bill Clinton?’” “No, that’s wrong, but a good guess. […]

If you have been watching, reading or listening to the mainstream media coverage of American politics for the past few years, California Congressman Adam Schiff, current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has been a regularly featured “authority” on all things important to the “we-hate-President Trump-but-we’re-not-biased media.” Lest we forget the history here, Rep. Schiff […]

The two most left-leaning presidential candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, seem to think that a ban on fracking would help solve the climate crisis. Hydraulic fracturing is a process that has enabled a revolution in the U.S. production of oil and especially natural gas. Natural gas emits half as much of the planet-warming gas […]

The Supreme Court just ensured that the nation’s homelessness crisis will continue. The court declined to take up an appeal of a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, covering the western United States, that homeless encampments are a de facto constitutional right. The 9th Circuit has a long history of reading the law […]

Since 2010, the North American fracking revolution has radically affected global energy markets for the better, to the benefit of human beings who prefer prosperity to poverty. Price-setting energy production capability by two politically free and stable economic power houses — the U.S. and Canada — has given both nations strategic freedom to maneuver and […]

Right-leaning opinions have declared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s trouncing of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn a favorable portent for President Donald J. Trump in 2020. Not so fast. Other readings of the British election results see the very opposite. For starters, Corbyn was a despised figure including within his own party. Trump is, let us […]

Never has history felt less consequential. The impending impeachment of President Donald Trump is, as news accounts and blaring newspaper headlines tell us, historic. This is true by definition, since a president has been impeached only twice before in 230 years. But everyone knows that this history isn’t going to matter much. In fact, the […]