Where did they find these people? Roger Stone. Paul Manafort. Sidney Powell. John Eastman. How is it that any of these people could ever be at the elbow of the most powerful man on the planet? We know where they found Rudy Giuliani: begging for pizza crust and publicity on the sidewalks of New York. And someone made a…
DetailsWhen my son was in fifth grade in Texas, he found himself a pawn in a morality play. Literally. His teacher, Mrs. Thrasher, had scripted a performance about early settlers taming the land. It was pastoral. Literally. Central to the plot was the felling of trees and the milling of wood, presumably to build a…
DetailsFrom what we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 Committee, Donald Trump may have to deploy a novel defense against the crime of seditious conspiracy. Insanity. This one must deduce from comments about the hurdle of “state of mind and intent” prosecutors would need to demonstrate to prove criminality. To that effect, Trump World should be…
DetailsLast May, Gallup found eight of 10 Americans supported the right the Supreme Court just tossed in history’s waste basket – the right for a woman to choose. Next to go? Same-sex marriage in states bold enough to abolish it. A person's right to use contraception also is threatened. What thereafter? Prohibition of interracial marriage? Resegregation of lunch…
DetailsRattle, rattle. What’s that sound? It’s a big-government conservative picking through the garbage of a woman alleged to have been pregnant. Click, click. That’s big-government conservatives hacking into a woman’s menstrual cycle app. When politicians make a woman’s private medical decisions their own, things like this can happen. Indeed, President Biden this week was pondering…
DetailsThe polls say Liz Cheney will get scorched in August’s Wyoming primary. No surprise there. Donald Trump is The Man in a state where carbon is god and carbines are currency. Wyoming’s ruling majority embodies Trump’s boast: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”…
DetailsI wonder if anyone else my age thinks of Watergate as a bonding experience. I certainly do. I was home from college. My father and I watched every second of the congressional hearings, he on his olive-green recliner, me on the floor, sometimes gripping the tan ottoman as we watched the Nixon administration unravel in…
DetailsAs Donald Trump butchered the names of the 21 Uvalde dead, a ghoulish gong chimed for each. That’s not what was heard by those he addressed at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston. Each gong was a “ka-ching.” “Ka-ching” for gun sales to come, for appliances of death to fly off shelves, for profits…
DetailsDear Fox News viewer: Whatever you might think about “critical race theory,” one thing it hasn’t done is kill anyone. Not like the “replacement theory” Tucker Carlson can’t stop talking about, the “great replacement” that drove a man many miles to a grocery store in Buffalo to shoot Black…
DetailsIn his book about testifying in Donald Trump’s first impeachment inquiry, Alexander Vindman recounts a heated argument with his Russian immigrant father. “Support the president,” his father shouted. “Do whatever the president wants.” But Vindman, a decorated Army lieutenant colonel, knew his obligation was to his country,…
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