Fugitives from the law. Desperate. Defiant. Hiding out in plain sight. Won’t go down without a fight. We thought the two New York prison fugitives were a tough case. Now come the fugitives from the historic U.S. Supreme Court pronunciations on marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act. Where to flee? Canada…
DetailsHow could someone hate a person simply because of dark pigment? Based on our history of racial progress and regress, it’s simple. Racism mostly is about entitlement, about power, about privilege. And this key point: In our country it’s about a victimhood that never really happened. Racism is nine-tenths possession. The remaining one-tenth…
DetailsWhat makes a conservative conservative? Aversion to reality, that’s what. Don’t jump on me for that assertion. Blame University of California-Berkeley researchers. A few years ago they did an analysis of the conservative psyche. Among other things, they deduced that what underlies the conservative mindset is “intolerance of ambiguity,” otherwise known as being…
DetailsMy shocks were shocked. My struts, too. I was headed down I-25 north of Denver when, with the force of an albatross across the face, a tremendous pothole presented itself. Fortunately, I had hands at 10 and 2. I was obeying the speed limit. Even at that, for a moment, hugging my…
DetailsAnd now a word from the Dynamite Owners of America – DOA: Wake up, America. At this crucial time in our nation’s history, our freedoms are under fire as never before. That’s why we must fight to protect our absolute, clearly defined, Second Amendment right to bear high explosives. The sad truth is that…
DetailsHold on to your coffee cup. We have identified the endangered species known as bipartisan consensus in America. You thought that we would never see it again. Yet, amazingly, consensus is forming on two key issues. The first should be no surprise, having been self-evident all along. But now that the Republican…
DetailsI know the place: the place where bullets flew and blood flowed the other day, where TV crews set up their trucks for one more gruesome body count. I know that place. It’s called America. For those caught up in the moment – fixated as the media are on the most recent “breaking…
DetailsA tried-and-true advertising concept is a technique called myth analysis. In it, the marketer establishes a narrative that has nothing to do with the product, but which sticks in the minds of consumers. It applies to beer and beach volleyball, GEICO and geckos, Budweiser and Clydesdales, AFLAC and a duck. It applies as well to…
DetailsSomeone explain why Republicans like Don Coram are so hard to find. You’ll have to travel all the way to Montrose, Colo., to find him, unless he’s in the Colorado state Capitol. There the state representative recently encountered frustration with fellow Republicans on something you’d think every person of any persuasion would support: fewer…
DetailsOur subject here is two self-evident and highly political truths: (1) School vouchers, by whatever name they’re called, are deceitful at their core. (2) Whatever proponents may call them, school vouchers aren’t really about education at all. We’ll talk about the ramifications of this deceit regarding vital K-12 public institutions, but first: In…
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