Category: Columns

Trump vs. the Crazies If for some strange reason you didn’t already know how much the liberal media hates President Trump, you found out this week. The Trump Hate Machine got revved up even before the president gave his national prime-time ad…

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On Dec. 11, President Trump said he would be “proud to shut down the government.” That’s an important boast to remember a month later, as the government shutdown approaches its fourth week. And as sure as the president claimed he’d accept responsibi…

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If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross paths every day, you wouldn’t give the smartly dressed 30-year-old a second look. The married father of three – two boys and a gi…

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True news: Donald Trump storms out of a White House meeting after he doesn’t get what he wants (billions of dollars for a fake crisis), and tells off congressional Democratic leaders by tweeting, “bye bye.” His cultists duly applaud. Alternative new…

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Facing an unruly band of newly-installed members of the House clamoring for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a voice of moderation, urging caution while warning that a move to drive the president from offic…

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Let’s play a game. I made it up over the holidays. I like to call it, “Name that Socialist.” Let’s begin. Who said this? “Capitalism has not always existed in the world, and it will not always exist in the world. When this country started, …

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It’s time to brush up on your knowledge of speakeasies, bathtub gin, demon rum, homebrew, bootlegging and other icons of the Roaring Twenties. January 16 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, which set in m…

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On New Year’s Eve, The Washington Post published a shockingly biased (even as measured in the current shoddy journalism era) op-ed piece. Titled “The Demographic Time Bomb that Could Hit America,” the commentary reflects columnist Catherine Rampell’s o…

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My father would have turned 80 on Jan. 3. It’s hard for me to imagine him at that age, deeply ensconced in the winter of his life. I’m sure he would have been active, opinionated, at the center of his own universe. That red hair might be threaded w…

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Is technology innovation doing us more harm than good? My family offers proof that it is. My parents recently got Amazon’s supposedly “intelligent” personal assistant, Alexa. Ask Alexa to play a song and she will (through her speaker). Ask he…

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