In an old crime series called “Dragnet,” Detective Joe Friday always said, “Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.” Let us try and do that as we analyze our current political choices in the runup to our next general election. Let us also try to get beyond the personal hate of the key players — […]

Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate. Democrats have had an impeachment itch that they’ve been desperate to scratch ever since Donald Trump took office. For them, Ukraine is equal […]

Celebrating 70 years of Communist Party rule, Chinese leader Xi Jinping stood in the open sunroof of a Red Flag limousine and shouted, “Greetings, comrades,” to the masses below. Xi wore a Mao-style suit to his giant military parade, which featured a missile that could carry 10 nuclear warheads and strike anywhere in the United […]

“If Democrats are successful in removing the president from office (which they never will be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” — Donald Trump, roughly quoting Robert Jeffress, a conservative Dallas preacher What if he’s right? Granted, no militias are massing. No declarations […]

On Oct. 1, the Chinese Communist Party threw itself a celebratory propaganda jubilee trumpeting the 70th anniversary Mao Zedong’s civil war victory and his clique’s seizure of power on the mainland. The centerpiece of the CCP National Day self-glorification festival was a grandiose parade featuring high-stepping People’s Liberation Army troops; armored vehicles; an intercontinental ballistic […]

A recovery coach is a bridge which unites worlds separated by a gulf. Put another way, what does it take to thrive? Life is first surviving then thriving. Most of us reading these words have figured out surviving. Very few of us have figured out thriving. American psychologist Abraham Maslow described the universal needs of […]

Back when reruns were a staple of summer programming, television networks aired repeats of their programs, giving viewers another opportunity to see what they had already seen. Democratic politicians are now conducting their own version of reruns. The same bunch who brought us the failed Russian “collusion” story, the sliming of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and […]

For a long time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a stop sign before vocal Democrats’ revving demands to get President Donald Trump’s impeachment on the road. Now her sign reads, “proceed with caution.” Pelosi knows what she’s doing. The speaker wouldn’t launch an impeachment inquiry back then because she knows that impeachments are fraught with […]

WASHINGTON — The battle to control the Federal Reserve is being waged on many fronts. There’s President Trump’s relentless tirades against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell — and Powell’s low-key rejoinders. There is the clamor from investors (aka Wall Street) for easy credit to prop up stock prices. Some economists favor cheap credit to sustain low […]