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Monday, September 3, 2018
In Easing Up on Mileage Rules, the Trump Administration Gets One Right
Labor Day weekend marks the traditional close of the summer driving season, but for those of us who live in a college town like Boston, it’s also when the throngs of arriving students clog the city’s streets with their cars, and empty parking spaces become more elusive than a winning Powerball ticket.
The Myth of Space Invaders
If you were alive in the 1950s and watching movies or TV, you were fed a steady diet of sci-fi claptrap about earth being attacked by Martians, who all had very large heads and very long fingers.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Final Queries for Judge Kavanaugh
Four decades ago, New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an intellectual Democrat, observed with amazement and regret that Republicans had become the party of ideas.
College Objects to 9/11 Poster Because of Muslim Bias
The Bias Protocol Board at Ripon College objected to a conservative group’s poster marking the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks because it focused too much on one religious organization, one religious group, and one religious identity: Islam.
What to Expect From the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing
Democrats showed their hands almost immediately after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Court.
Saturday, September 1, 2018
D-Day?
I can’t help but wonder if Mueller has given a heads-up to a few swamp reporters to set the stage.
Lamentations and Lessons Learned
In the Book of Lamentations, written about the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587 B.C., you can find heartbreaking descriptions of loss and grief, betrayal and absolute despair.
A Blue Ripple or a Red Tidal Wave?
I keep hearing people predicting that a blue wave in November will provide Democrats with a majority in the House and possibly in the Senate. Those doing the predicting keep referring to congressional losses suffered by Clinton, Bush and Obama in the first midterm of their administrations.
More Winning Evidence
Earlier this week I suggested that evidence we are winning could be found in the increasingly unhinged nature of the anti-Donald Trump, Democrat-entry-fee rhetoric coming from folks considered to have entrenched positions in the Democrat Party and media hierarchies.
California Dems Declare War on In-N-Out Burger
California Democrats have declared war on one of the most popular, family-owned hamburger chains on the West Coast.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Nature Doing What Nature Does
I am not in the market to harm any person in any debate. Looking back, I have found that fighting everybody and fighting everything is not what debating should be about. In fact, when it comes to the climate, fighting is a distraction from what someone like me really wants to do, which is nail forecasts. After all, name-calling has little to do with the real problem — what is the truth of an idea?
Fixing the Kangaroo Courts
The Education Department is preparing new rules that would roll back requirements for how colleges handle sexual assault and harassment allegations.
Mr. Trump’s Good Friend Jeff
Along with his many other daily Tweet targets, President Trump can’t stop beating up on Jeff Sessions for being a lousy attorney general.
This Labor Day, Americans Workers Can Say: The Economy Is Strong
For the first time in years, American workers will be celebrating Labor Day knowing that we finally have the economic wind in our sails.
‘Armstrong,’ a New Comic Novel
I want to tell you about one of the funniest books I’ve read in a while. It’s a novel called “Armstrong,” and it imagines that Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
J.D. Martinez’s 2nd Amendment Stance Isn’t Controversial; It’s Patriotic
Someone recently dug up an old pro-Second Amendment Instagram post by Boston Red Sox star J.D. Martinez, in which the potential Triple Crown winner posted a picture of Adolf Hitler featuring the quote, “To conquer a nation, First disarm it’s (sic) citizens.” Martinez captioned the post, “This is why I will always stay strapped! #thetruth.”
John McCain: Warm Remembrances of Roads Not Taken, or Taken and Now Abandoned
Warm remembrances of Sen. John McCain have been filling the political air since his death last weekend. They’ll continue through his the memorial service in Phoenix, his funeral Saturday at Washington National Cathedral and his interment at the Naval Academy cemetery in Annapolis on Sunday.
CNN’s Love Letter for ‘RBG’
If CNN really wanted to brand itself as a “Facts First” news channel, why did it promise to air a gushy documentary about fiercely feminist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Labor Day weekend?
Clerical Cowards and Their Cover-Up
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become,” said Brooke Foss Westcott, the British bishop of Durham in the late 1800s.
Impeachment Is Just a Liberal Fantasy
Michael Cohen’s decision to plead guilty for making hush-money payments on Donald Trump’s behalf has raised the prospect that if Democrats take control of Congress, they might try to impeach the president over a matter completely unrelated to a perceived criminal conspiracy with Russia.