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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last November (“The DOGE Plan to Reform Government”), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy asserted that “[r]equiring...
Well, here we are: After a long presidential campaign full of warnings from each “major” party campaign about the horrible things the other...
On January 10, US president-elect Donald Trump officially became a convicted felon as New York judge Juan Merchan sentenced him on 34 counts of...
“I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost,” Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger (US Army) allegedly wrote in an explanatory...
In 1989, US forces invaded, conquered, and occupied Panama, replacing its pet dictator, Manuel Noriega with a new regime. Then-president George...
It’s “year in review” time for most political columnists, so here’s my opinion on 2024, along with a recommendation for 2025. Opinion: Zero...
On December 13, president-elect Donald Trump pledged on Truth Social that in his coming term the Republican Party will “use its best efforts to...
On December 1, outgoing US president Joe Biden issued a pardon for all federal crimes his son, Hunter, “has committed or may have committed or...
On November 12, president-elect Donald Trump announced his second-term plans for a “Department of Government Efficiency” which will, in his words,...
In the wake of the latest presidential election, it’s morning in America! Well, maybe not, but a lot of people seem to be talking about Bluesky,...
In late October, the Los Angeles Times published its list of candidate/issue endorsements for this year’s general election. Missing from the list:...
The last few weeks (sometimes the last few months) of a presidential election cycle always leave me feeling somewhat burnt out. As a political...
Florida’s proposed Amendment 4 would add the following language to the state constitution’s Declaration of Rights: “… no law shall prohibit,...
In the past, I’ve written on (my friend and heroine) Caryn Ann Harlos’s challenge to Colorado’s law commanding that “[no] election official,...
On October 7, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from X — formerly Twitter — concerning, among other issues, the use of “nondisclosure...
On September 13, the Biden administration announced a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” to “protect American consumers, workers, and businesses...
“We’re effectively run in this country,” J.D. Vance told Tucker Carlson in 2021, “be it the Democrats, be it our corporate oligarchs, by a...
In early September, the US Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two employees of RT (formerly Russia Today), alleging that the...
How many times have you casually mentioned buying, say, new curtains to your spouse, then found yourself bombarded with ads for window treatments...
“In Florida,” former and possibly future US president Donald Trump writes on Truth Social, “like so many other States that have already given...
On April 19, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched his long-shot presidential bid as a Democrat. On October 9, 2023, he declared himself an “...