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Friday, December 21, 2018
Family’s Christmas Stamps Rejected Because of ‘Religious’ Content
Tavia Hunt, of Dallas, Texas, wanted to add a personal touch to her family’s Christmas cards this year. So she decided to create a customized stamp for her cards.
Trump Is About to Repeat Obama’s Mistake in the Middle East
During his time in CIA custody, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogator something prophetic. The United States may enjoy some fleeting battlefield successes, Mohammed declared, but in the end “we will win because Americans don’t realize ... we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting.”
The Congressional Recessional
America is often described as a constitutional democracy or constitutional republic. That’s not really true. The best you could say is that our system is constitutional-ish.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Who Cares?
I’d like you to join me in a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that somebody wrote a ten-page report filled with an assortment of charges against you. Imagine that some are so awful that if your family and neighbors ever learned about them you’d probably lose your job and your family.
The Most Important Issue of Our Time That Nobody Is Talking About
Our country has never been more divided or in more turmoil than it is today. I lived through the Civil Rights and Viet Nam eras, but those were more focused protests, while today we are divided on just about everything.
Counter the Electro-Magnetic Pulse Threat
A century ago, life without electricity wasn’t hard to imagine. But today? There’s hardly an aspect of daily life that doesn’t rely on a steady supply of it. And in an instant, it could all grind to a halt.
For One Actress, It Is a Wonderful Life
When Ashley Bratcher took the leading role in *Unplanned*, she wasn’t ambivalent about life — but she wasn’t exactly passionate about it either. Then came the revelation that turned her world upside down. Ashley, who was about to star in a movie about abortion, had almost been a victim of it.
A Liberal Channels James Madison, and Conservatives Lose their Minds
In a recent interview on CNN, Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, was asked whether members of Congress should be doing more to stifle false or hateful speech on the Internet’s big social-media platforms.
It Was Always About the Wall
There was likely never going to be “comprehensive immigration reform” or any deal amnestying the DACA recipients in exchange for building the wall. Democrats in the present political landscape will not consent to a wall. For them, a successful border wall is now considered bad politics in almost every manner imaginable.
Whatever Happened to Skid Row?
Homelessness is up for the second year in a row. That is no surprise to me. I spent the last few days in New York City, where it seems the homeless are as numerous as the tourists.
Gutless President in Wall-Less Country
If you were elected president after decades of politicians doing nothing about the millions of illegals pouring into our country every year, committing crimes, dealing drugs, driving drunk, molesting children and killing Americans like Kate Steinle, and your central campaign promise — repeated every day — was to build a wall, wouldn’t you have spent the entirety of your transition period working on getting it done?
Big Problems With Big Tech
We live in an increasingly tech-centered age. Driverless cars, microchip implantation, and facial recognition are all things previously found only in science fiction and have somehow become a reality.
A Deficit-Happy Government May Lead to a Debt-Driven Financial Crisis
There are milestones you celebrate: a kid’s first step, a round-numbered birthday, a marriage anniversary. And then there are the milestones you dread: Reaching $22 trillion in national debt is one of them.
Tough on Criminal Justice Reform
Republicans and conservatives dating back at least to Richard Nixon have used the slogan “tough on crime” and its corollary “lock ’em up and throw away the key” as electoral red meat.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Back From the Brink
Evidently, the president woke up Tuesday morning frustrated by the status quo in Washington and determined to do something about it.
I’ll Be Home(less) for Christmas?
In Washington State, grandma didn’t get run over by a reindeer — but her rights sure did! At the Providence Place senior living center, this year’s crackdown on Christmas is so severe it makes the Grinch look like an amateur.
Capitalists vs. Capitalism
It’s bad enough when leftists smear capitalism. I hate it more when capitalists do it, too.
Little Migrant Girl Dies, Media Pounce
One of the reasons people decry the “fakeness” of the news is the selectivity of which heart-rending anecdotes are “news” and which are not — unless they can be blamed on undesirable politicians.
Three Good Men; Three Great Kids’ Books
Men get a bad rap. They’re blamed collectively for rape culture, violence, war, poverty, climate change and all other manner of global suffering.
A War Memorial Is in the Form of a Cross. Is That a Problem?
To honor the memory of 49 men from Prince George’s County, Md., killed in action during World War I, a 40-foot memorial cross made of concrete and pink granite has stood for nearly 100 years at an intersection in the town of Bladensburg near Washington, DC.