And, sorry, but no, simply saying things one does not agree with does not justify in engaging in unprovoked violence.  This is directed at t...

Washington Post columnist and occasional novelist and diplomat, David Ignatius, is one of the best informed and wisest of commentators on Mi...

The latest from Michael Boskin belongs on the National Review: So far, Trump has failed to deliver any major legislative policy achievemen...

First they coddled the white supremacists with false equivalency, and I didn't resign from the Trump Evangelical Council because those p...

Donald Trump is no stranger to outrageous public poses and statements, but his refusal to condemn white supremacists post-Charlottesville ha...

I agree with the senior Robert E Lee as well as his descendant, Robert E. Lee V, and also the great grandsons of Thomas L. ("Stonewall...

Who knew that neo-Nazi, KKK white supremacists and Trump supporters were liars, cry-babies AND hypocrites? The reasons for secession by t...

Jeet Heer has posted a timely and excellent essay at New Republic titled "Trump's Racism and the Cultural Marxism Myth. " In h...

I have a theory that at least some people at the Fed are supporting interest rate increases not because they are worried about incipient inf...

Commander Bone Spurs was afraid that some of his supporters would be too thick to grasp the grudging, involuntary nature of his teleprompter...

The word 'narrative' appears 41 times in the infamous Higgins memo, " POTUS and Political Warfare. " Guys, it's time f...

I just finished this long, rather convoluted meditation on “rational optimism” .  Must we admit the world is getting better, getting better ...

The book, Democracy in Chains (with an even more lurid subtitle) by Nancy MacLean, a respected (until now) historian at Duke University make...

Atlantic:  An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo Esquire:  This Is Pure, Unadulterated American Crazy Foreign Policy:  H...

Yesterday, August 9, is being widely proclaimed as the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the financial crisis that fully crashed in Sept...