The Debate: They Both Bombed It
“There was more than one loser in the big debate, but that’s no surprise. I hardly expected any issues of...
“There was more than one loser in the big debate, but that’s no surprise. I hardly expected any issues of...
“Maybe half a million dead, half a country — 10 million people — displaced from their homes, jettisoned onto the...
“The dogs growl, the pepper spray bites, the bulldozers tear up the soil. “Water is life!” they cry. “Water is...
“The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if...
“This is a little too big to simply call “news.” Indeed, I can’t move beyond these words — especially that...
“He’d left the water running, flooding neighbors’ apartments. He’d been running around outside naked. By the time police arrived, he...
“It’s the smallest thing in the world. Does the tennis ball land inside the line or outside? But somehow, as...
“Donald Trump is a reckless fool. But the U.S. defense establishment is M.A.D. And herein lies one of the darker...
“What would it take to cause Hillary Clinton to distance herself from the newly launched bombing campaign in Libya? Or...
“As I watched “unity” take hold of the Democratic Party this week, the believer in me wanted to be imbibe...
“In a flash I thought, oh God, the civil war has started. Then the headlines shifted and, for the moment,...
“There’s Mars, the god of war, perched in a parking garage in Dallas, annihilating the enemy with utter impunity. Mars,...
“Behind the “right to bear arms” lies concealed the right to make money. You know, a lot of it. The...
“This won’t be the last. Just after the Orlando tragedy, this reality remains pretty much unacknowledged, as cause-seekers focus on...
“Come on, they aren’t tanks, they’re armored rescue vehicles. And the, uh, grenade launchers would only be used to launch...