There are at least 200 words or terms in a list compiled by the New York Times, and first published in March, that are being purged from the official vocabularies of federal agencies at the behest of President Trump and his lockstep, quavering minions. Included... Continue
Me too Yes, I know. If you are by now sick and tired of reading the Sun’s alarming reportage, opinions, rants and tired reminders about the plan to build a thousand-home subdivision in the middle of the former Sonoma Developmental Center, on the edge of... Continue
By David Bolling Muhammad Ali and I had only two things in common. We both thought he was The Greatest, and we both refused to go fight in Vietnam. Ali’s refusal in 1967 led to a guilty conviction for draft evasion that was later overturned... Continue
Zombies? Sometimes you just gotta ask. Drama? Or Documentary? Do the Dead really come back to Life? (Not talking about you, Jesus). Living Dead. What a concept. Living humans with consciousness but no souls? Dead humans imbued with scientific training and a hunger for human flesh?... Continue
When Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for nine and-a-half minutes in 2020, while Floyd gradually died from asphyxiation – plainly gasping that he couldn’t breathe – America felt a modest seismic shift in its relationship with its own racial history.... Continue
At the most very basic level, say, down on your hands and knees and squinting through the cosmic mouse hole at Mar-a-Lago, or down a dark tunnel into the kaleidoscope of painfully pulsing lights that surround the clown circus that is the Trump presidency, it’s... Continue
On October 10, 2008, during the closing days of a presidential campaign that was slipping away from him, John McCain was addressing a town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota when a middle-aged woman told him she was scared of Barack Obama because, “he’s an Arab.”... Continue
Set aside for a moment, if you can, issues of Democratic and Republican politics, homeland security, official language, national identity – all the real but ephemeral concerns around which we organize our national debate on immigration reform, and think for a moment about tides. Humans... Continue
In 1979, as OPEC embargoed Middle Eastern oil, the price of gasoline rose 52 percent, groceries rose 9.5 percent, Citibank’s prime rate was over 15 percent and inflation rose 13.3 percent. Unemployment, meanwhile, was nine percent and the American economy became the solemn soundtrack to... Continue
Apparently I’m a Patriot!! I don’t think I would ever have known that, were it not for Caleb Lee, Newt Gingrich, Tom McHugh, Matt Gaetz, Lara Trump, Ronna McDaniel, Mike Johnson, Customer Care at The Patriot Depot, and Cory Brown at Tactical Wholesaler. All of... Continue