I missed the hearings, so I’m asking: When members of Congress quizzed Stephen Miran as this president’s choice to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, did anyone ask him to identify the planet on which he resides? It could not be Earth. No one from this planet would so nonchalantly have said what he did…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men hardly are created equal,” wrote the founders of this country. They continued: “Those of inherent privilege are endowed by their creator with special status; the rest can soak.” So reads the Declaration of Hierarchy, the founding document that launched a nation conceived in ideological apartheid…
For the one-time reality-show guy, things just got real. Real except for any trustworthy explanation or justification about what happens or what he directs our military to do in the war into which he has enlisted all of us. As anyone with ears should know, truth is not what this president does. Millions of Americans…
It says everything about the Little Dictator’s war on brown people that ICE began its June 6 raids in Los Angeles at a Home Depot. Just the place to find rapists, murderers and gang-bangers: Aisle 12 – between the yard trimmers and fertilizer spreaders. Safe we are, therefore, from workers who that day were arming…
Having grown up just past the dawn of the nuclear age, I remember having silly romantic notions as a child about the scariest thing imaginable: Fall-out shelters. A cozy concrete hang-out: just enough room for our family of five – our favorite snacks on hand, me with a stack of comic books, curled up away…
My wife has a way of measuring excess that’s particular to her passion. At any obscene outlay, she’ll wonder: “How many animal shelters would that build?” Let’s say your government shells out $45 million for a military parade on the birthday of a war hero-denigrating, draft-eluding president. A video I saw says it takes about…
There’s an iron train a-travelin’ that’s been a-rollin’ through the years with a firebox of hatred and a furnace full of fears – Bob Dylan What is the Spanish word for “boogeyman”? I Googled the English-to-Spanish and found “hombre del saco” — “man of the sack.” Not sure of how that applies. Another term for…
I’m curious about the fire sale we’ve witnessed on the White House lawn. They’re offering public lands and federal buildings for cheap. They’re mowing down civil servants like roadside weeds. They’re liquidating whole agencies with utter indiscrimination. Are we that hard up for cash? Apparently not. — We have $45 million rattling around to pay…
If they come after Stockholm, they’ll come after us. Stockholm. Sweden. Yeah, there. The White House says Stockholm must root out diversity, equity and inclusion — DEI — policies for any contractor with which the U.S. embassy there does business. What? As with so much that we’ve observed over the last 100-plus days, this stretches…
I wish I didn’t have the name “Witkoff” in my brain. Just as I wish I’d never heard the name of a certain brazen self-dealer who cheapens the presidential seal today. I wish my retinas were not burned by the sight of him. There he is in the one-time house of Jefferson, Lincoln and two…