For all his depth, a mark of Abraham Lincoln’s greatness was a deep humility. When saluted by Union volunteers in 1864, he remarked that he was “exceedingly obliged to you for this mark of respect.” He continued, “It is said that we have the best government world ever…
Since nothing that Donald Trump says can be taken seriously except as work for bone-weary fact-checkers, I didn’t take seriously his recent call for the creation of a sixth branch of the military: Space Farce. Now I acknowledge that I should have taken Space…
For the Party of Trump, it’s just a misty memory now – a celebration way back there in June. Republican Karen Handel had barely edged out Democrat Jon Ossoff for a vacant suburban Atlanta seat in Congress. It was the first special election watched nationwide to see how…
Jim Acosta did his job. It’s clear, even after two years, that Donald Trump does not understand his own. The CNN reporter asked the president about his “invasion” terminology of a bedraggled caravan hundreds of miles from our borders – justification for an election-eve rousting of enlisted…
Gnats. That’s what experts at crime scenes call gawkers who suddenly appear to leer at the event. Timothy McVeigh, later to commit his own horrible crime in Oklahoma City, was a gnat at the scene of the Branch Davidian tragedy outside of Waco. So was budding conspiracy monger Alex…