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Our golden age

We media types obsess about America's problems. But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has been anywhere, ever. For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, illiteracy, slavery and war. There were a few exceptions (from some of those problems) — ...

What the founders feared

"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison (1751-1836) America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and ...

Epstein conspiracy in plain sight

It's not what you know, it's who you know — even if you may have committed terrible crimes. That's the Jeffrey Epstein version of the famous line about success. The massive tranche of Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee didn't reveal any smoking guns about Donald ...

Are Trump’s Epstein files like Nixon’s Watergate tapes?

Mr. President, we know you are not a saint and more than 77 million Americans were fine with that on election day. As bad as the Epstein files may be for you, it is more important to "let it go" and trust that the American people will judge you appropriately. But a word of caution: Do not ...

How low can deviancy go?

The central scandal in the Epstein's sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It's the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women — that is, females 18 or older — bothers me little. I never cared much about Donald Trump's assignation with porn star Stormy Daniels. Other ...

Not ready for a female president?

Former first lady Michelle Obama says America is not ready for a female president. In a series of recent interviews promoting her new book, Michelle Obama points to the losses of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton as evidence of what she regards as sexism. Recall that similar things were once ...