Thank God this Brett Kavanaugh fiasco is now behind us. After weeks of hysterics, it seems especially fitting that a confirmation process, that somehow turned into a referendum on whether this country cares about women, ultimately hinged on the decision of one woman, who has now become the unlikely face, and victim, of misogyny. But […]
John McCain will be remembered as a lot of things, but probably not as a conservative. At least, not by conservatives. That’s a shame. He was not a typical conservative, but there can never be any one version of conservatism, since conservatism is about ideas. The moment we stop exchanging ideas we stop being a […]
With the NFL’s preseason underway, players taking a knee in protest of racial injustice is once again part of the national conversation, in no small part due to our president’s obsession with forever calling attention to it, and then demanding that we pay no attention to it. Brilliant. Perhaps instead of criticizing the players for […]
A federal program that matches up to $500 in contributions to retirement accounts would cost one-thirteenth what Social Security does, provide triple the payout, turn every American into a millionaire, and solve our national savings crisis. And we could still keep Social Security on top of that. Perhaps the greatest crisis facing this country […]
I am told I am supposed to be saddened by the news that The New York Daily News has laid off half of its newsroom staff, including all photographers, due to continued losses of revenue. This could not have been more predictable. Those who lost their jobs should have seen the writing on the wall […]
The Internet is full these days of videos of college students at question-and-answer sessions engaging conservative guest speakers, who have the advantage of actually being adults, demanding the speakers answer questions about (or rather, answer for) privilege, or patriarchy, or whatever else is singularly to blame this week for all the world’s ills. One […]
Editor’s note: In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Max Tapera produced a video of himself speaking with gun control advocates. This video, which is embedded below, has received roughly 40,000 YouTube views as of this writing. What follows is his account of his experience making this video. By Max Tapera In […]
It sounds like the plot of some brain-dead Hollywood comedy that has already been made too many times: Movie executive: OK, here’s an idea. You know those geniuses who Jay Leno used to interview on the street who couldn’t answer basic questions like who the vice president is, or what Columbus Day celebrates? Well, […]
Editor’s note: On our Facebook page (which, by the way, if you have not liked, please do so by clicking the button in the right column of this page), we recently posted a story about a young couple who is thinking about divorcing in order to get affordable health coverage for their daughter. They have […]
There can be no doubt that today’s Democratic Party has almost totally abandoned any efforts to win the middle class, Middle America, and middle of the spectrum voters. Needing new voters to fill that void, they are increasingly turning to four, shall we say, “non-traditional” groups: convicts, children, non-citizens, and, yes, lazy people. It is […]
