Because I took no books with me on what I thought would be a three-week trip to Paris and Barcelona, I've been passing the time by reading old books online.…
The World Health Organization has officially designated the Coronavirus outbreak a world pandemic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/11/coronavirus-live-updates/ The organization cites 'alarming levels of spread and...alarming levels of inaction'. A congressional briefing on the…
As I guessed more than two years ago, the explanation is a lot simpler than "they're afraid of his base," which is true but doesn't explain why they won't cut…
Iconic arms manufacturer Colt announced it will stop making military-style rifles for the civilian market, explaining that there already are enough of them to go around. That sound you hear…
Why hasn't the Deep State removed Trump from office? Because they've mostly been working around him instead of with him or against him. But apparently Trump promised somebody in his…
Anyone who thinks Donald Trump is everything the quisling GOP wants in a president must reckon with the fact that he won't go to war in the Middle East on…
Think the Cold War ended? Think again. Russian codebreakers reportedly hacked into the FBI's comm systems and interfered with the agency's tracking ability. Nearly 50,000 General Motors workers are out…
The so-far unsung hero of the New Zealand massacre was not, per U.S. gun-sissy lore, a good guy with a gun. Abdul Aziz Wahabzadah, a refugee from Afghanistan, was with…
Christopher Dickey, foreign editor of the Daily Beast, is out with a column that calls the devil by his name. The New Zealand killer, Dickey writes, may have been a…
I think the No. 1 reason is that foreign money in elections was a foreseen consequence of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and I hope I don't have to…
Lots of people, it seems, even some of the 81% who tell pollsters they support it. Republicans consider it the spawn of Satan or, worse, Lenin. Democrats fret that it's…
When people say, "I worry that voters will be scared of a leftist agenda," they're really saying, "I'm scared of a leftist agenda." Polling demonstrates this over and over again…
The latest Florida outrage -- I know, it's a new one almost every day -- involves the cold-blooded slaying of another black man by another white man who apparently will…