Glancing at the grocery store newsstand, I caught the Page 1 image of a rocket blasting skyward in a ball of flame. “How many innocents will die when that hits its target?” I pondered. Then I realized it wasn’t a missile fired to decimate but a vessel to elevate mankind to previously unreached heights. Artemis…
DetailsIn seeking never to repeat the horrors of 9/11, Congress took the step to merge relevant civilian operations – customs, immigration, airports, nonmilitary national security and intelligence. In 2002, former senator Lee Hamilton, serving on the 9/11 Commission, said the nation needed an administrative superstar to oversee “the massive integration and unity of effort to…
DetailsI wish I could talk to my dad about the winter we didn’t have this year. Or the summer that arrived in March. Or trees and lawns so out of sync with each other they look like they’re from different biomes. It would be fascinating to get his take. Where I live — where he…
DetailsThey know exactly what they’re doing. And it’s not about “securing the vote.” It’s not about “safeguarding against voter fraud.” The SAVE Act is about Republicans in Congress peeling off enough voters to cling to power this November. Fortunately, Democrats are on democracy’s side and are blocking it in the Senate. The GOP knows it…
DetailsFor one so callow, Nick Shirley is an accomplished liar. At 23, you might call him tops in the junior circuit. Listen to the big-league liars: He’s not far from The Show — the future of today’s Republican Party. Hear JD Vance: ““This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners…
DetailsClearly he didn’t want you to know. Maybe he thought the war he started would all be over by morning’s light. A few bombs, a few missiles. You needn’t bother. So on his social media arm he announced it at just past 2 a.m. Were you up at that time? Me, neither. Did networks break…
DetailsBy now only the Thirders are clapping for him. The Thirders — and the trained seals on the right side of the House chamber, and on Faux News. The Thirders, you ask? I introduced them in this column back when President Obama had approval ratings in the mid-70s. I identified the fury of a calcified…
DetailsThe ignorance was exceeded only by the arrogance. “So I can destroy the country, but I can’t charge them a little fee.” ConMan the Destroyer was venting his fury after a Supreme Court majority read what the Constitution, in plain script, says about go-it-alone, contrived “emergency” tariffs. The court majority huddled around the document and…
DetailsIn June of 2004 the tiny mountain town of Granby, Colo., was wrecked, literally, by a man in a steroidal bulldozer. Believing himself wronged by a host of townspeople, Marvin Heemeyer turned a dozer into a monster armored vehicle by which he destroyed City Hall, the police station and several businesses. The crisis ended when…
DetailsI didn’t know him from Yosemite Sam. But here’s the thing: The only reason I watched the Super Bowl was Bad Bunny. I don’t dig his genre. I didn’t understand a word. And yet he was the only reason. I didn’t care about either team playing after my beloved Broncos bit it in the AFC…
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