My son was on the phone from a suburb of Denver, driving to an appointment, frantic suddenly for directions. I know that area well. My answer was calm, knowing where he was: “Turn to the mountains.” “I can’t.” “Can’t what?” “Can’t see the mountains.” For those who’ve not been in eyeshot of the Rocky Mountains,…
DetailsEvery World Cup watcher knows of our president’s self-serving stunt –pressuring FIFA president Gianni Infantino to reinstate a red-carded U.S. player. To the rest of the field, it was a scandal. For Americans who respect the rules and the game, it was an embarrassment. It was also par for the course. What fans don’t know…
DetailsI want to be the one to name it. It — the newest scandal to visit our creepily corrupt first family. It — criminal charges against two brothers who are profiting from truly sleazy and evil activities. In this case — NOT Don Jr. and Eric. It’s the Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan: expressedly, passionately…
DetailsDo you remember the Tylenol scare? Not the truly scary one — in 1982 — when seven died from cyanide-tampered capsules. No, not that one. Do you remember the scare our president tried to trigger about Tylenol back in September? If you don’t, it means you didn’t toss the Tylenol when, though he couldn’t pronounce…
DetailsI’ll never forget it: The moment that the sight of Minute Rice caused tears to form. True, it could have been Rice-A-Roni. Could have been egg noodles or soy sauce. Of the secretion from my eyes, however, there was no doubt. I’d just been freed from nine months of veritable home confinement. From a world…
Details“What you gonna do? Arrest me?” Attribute that to (a) a president who since birth has thought himself above accountability; (b) a revenge-driven killer who has a lawman in his deadly grip. The answer should be (a) because it’s exactly how our president thinks. Factually, however, it is (b) from a scene in “Cape Fear,”…
DetailsCall them Justice Roberts and the Colonials. “Original intent”? Truly, they are of another era. When the butter churn was high-tech. When whittlin’ and fiddlin’ were home entertainment. When non-males were non-citizens. When black people were property. And why would they not? Slavery was legal precedent for 244 years. Court after court. Congress after Congress.…
DetailsFor the last four months, every time I gritted my teeth to refuel the car, I recalled a memory from three years ago: “Biden did this” stickers slapped on pumps next to the cost of a fill-up. In Biden’s last year in office, gasoline averaged slightly over $3 a gallon, says the U.S. Energy Information…
Details“Parasite (n): organism that lives on or in another organism (its host) and benefits by taking nutrients at the host’s expense.” Such life-sucking lifeforms are the topic of today’s commentary. One in particular. Not so fast. In this case, I’m not talking about the external, barnacle-style parasite, like the tick, the flea, the chigger, or…
DetailsNothing could be more debasing than to have fighters extract blood from each other on the White House lawn while fat cats urge them on. Or so you thought. Consider a more gruesome beat-down at this president’s pleasure. Unbeknownst to most Americans, a UFC-style pummeling transpired at Mar-a-Lago in April. Big Tobacco did the damage.…
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