In a sign of the times, 2024 whizzed by in the instant it took for a bullet to travel 150 yards from a rooftop through a man’s ear. One can condense the year into that moment. Put it in a…
Many not-so-nice characters made their way onto Joe Biden’s nice list. When Santa Claus mistakes Dasher for Dancer and believes he lives in the South Pole, the elves tend to take over. Drug dealer Kaboni Savage, whose very name provides…
Lyndon Johnson feared conservatives as “The Great Beast” in American politics. The Great Beast flexed its muscles on Wednesday. The continuing resolution failed because establishment Republicans for once feared upsetting conservative members of their own majority party more than displeasing…
Donald Trump brought a suit against The Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer for consumer fraud. “Selzer’s polling ‘miss’ was not an astonishing coincidence,” the lawsuit filed in a state court in Polk County, Iowa, explains, “it was…
“This time around Syria was liberated by its people for its people,” Mouaz Moustafa, a Syrian immigrant active in the fight against tyranny in his homeland, told Face the Nation on Sunday. “It’s truly inspiring.” When Moustafa spoke of “an…
Luigi Mangione expresses his anti-corporatism in a typical, Ivy League way. He makes showy demonstrations and inscribes all sorts of words on paper (and shell casings) as he drinks Starbucks coffee, eats breakfast at McDonald’s, and carries his belongings in…
It turns out the assassination of the CEO of the largest health insurance company in America on the streets of Manhattan by a masked gunman using a silencer amounted to the least shocking aspect of this crime. Even revelations by…
He Crossed His Fingers, Apparently Joe Biden promised of his convicted felon son in June, “I will not pardon him.” On the first of December, he decided to pardon Hunter Biden for gun- and tax-law violations. That lie seems less offensive…
Cut the lights. Cue “The Sounds of Silence.” Crawl under the covers. This amounts to the post-election routine of our Almira Gulches hit by a reality tornado. Their habits certainly no longer include cable news mesmerism — and hopefully not…
Donald Trump nominated Sean Duffy as secretary of transportation earlier this week. The pick feels potentially more significant than those offered for the old-line cabinet positions. When the outgoing administration was the incoming administration, Joe Biden generated much chatter regarding…
