What state will be next to fall under the Iron Curtain? We speak here not of the ’50s-’60s, Commie kind. We speak but of the ’22 Republican kind – the 12 GOP-controlled states prepared to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court gives the word. In…
DetailsJoe Biden needs a traveling prop. Every time he speaks, it should be at his side. It should be the symbol of the next election and his campaign for re-election. Biden’s partner at each podium should be a ballot box – a mail-in ballot drop box, to…
DetailsThis isn’t fire season. Where I reside, it is the season of sleds and snowballs. But there they were on a late December day, thousands of residents of the Colorado towns of Superior and Louisville, fleeing as wind-tossed fireballs consumed whole subdivisions. To everything there is a…
DetailsBuild Back Better. It’s a great handle for bridges, viaducts and sewer lines. But, oh, my — how inadequate a name for legislation that’s more complex and nuanced, focused on survival – personal, planetary. No wonder Joe Manchin says he can’t sell it to the people of…
DetailsIn biology, surface distinctions among human beings barely count. Regardless of skin color, we all share 99.9 percent of our genetic code with one another. Biologically, race is an artifice, a distinction without a distinction. Try telling that, however, to the Republican Party’s computers. They…
DetailsFoes of masks, the Denver Post reported, “waved American flags, cheered and whistled” at the marathon school board meeting. Then a newly reconstituted, newly partisan board sided with them. Left out of the discussion: administrators charged with keeping children, teachers and staff safe. It had been impressive…
Details“Don’t worry. There’s plenty that would love to take you off the face of the f-cking earth. Come and get it, bitch. You f-cking Muslim piece of sh-t, you jihadist. “You will not live much longer, bitch.” No, that wasn’t Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert calling Rep. Ilhan Omar…
DetailsWebster defines gall as “brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and indolence.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has a lot of that Enough to pave an interstate. In his recent dusk-to-dawn prattle-athon trying to stop Joe Biden’s social spending initiative, McCarthy said many idiotic things. Topping…
DetailsSure, there are other problems in the world. Raisins are a problem — cooked raisins, plumped and pleading, contrived to make muffins and cinnamon rolls vessels of subversion. Turnips are a problem. Steamed in their own ooze, they bite the young innocent who thinks it’s a bit…
DetailsIn the book “Rampage Nation,” author Louis Klarevas, who narrowly averted death at the barrel of a long arm, employs the standard term “mass killing” for four or more victims. Had one of Kyle Rittenhouse’s rapid rounds not torn through the arm of one of the three people…
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