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The Iran hawks are losing their judgment

I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a ride from an obviously drunk driver. Earlier this month, the Wall ...

Trump never actually had a plan

When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative (last) Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls "the weave." What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic. While spinning his ...

The sudden political star of Trump II: Marco Rubio

"White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner's website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of U.S. military operations against Iran, which have been taking place since Feb. 28. That ...

Run on pitchforks and torches?

Funding government infrastructure, education, healthcare, social security and defense through taxation must be a shared burden, but many ultra-wealthy use tax code loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. Hiring tax attorneys to “legally” amass wealth and pay zero taxes doesn’t make you smart, just nefarious by shifting the burden of funding government onto the backs of hardworking Americans. We know the types, the ones who buy the most expensive meal on the menu then sticks you with the bill. CEOs eliminate their income tax liability by paying themselves in stock, which is ...

Hope for the dead

"That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...

Animals are not good Easter presents

We don’t want to rain on anyone’s Easter parade, but if you’re thinking it might be cute to get the kids some chicks, ducklings or even a bunny for their Easter basket, we’d ask that you think again. Animal experts warn that very much like puppies and kittens at Christmas time, chicks, ducklings and bunnies are not good Easter basket stuffers. They grow quickly and the owners are typically unprepared to care for them properly. Local animal shelters are often where these unwanted critters end up, putting additional stress on resources of that sort that are already ...