What’s the real scandal in Washington at the moment?
Can President Barack Obama put out the brush fires that are sucking all the air out of his second-term agenda? Can he stop the spread of mini-scandals that are consuming Washington? No, he cannot. The president could (unconstitutionally) shutter every Internal Revenue Service office and fire every … Click here to continue --->
The absurdities of the Guantanamo Bay prison
Sometimes, the absurdities of an official policy or action are so clear that they need not be elucidated. Such is the case with the Obama administration’s maintenance of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, a grotesque place that only the novelist Franz Kafka, who wrote brilliantly of … Click here to continue --->
Spineless pols and the god they worship: the NRA
You might have thought that the mangled bodies of twenty dead children would have been enough to overcome the crazed obsessions of the gun lobby. You might have believed that the courage and exhortations of a former congresswoman — her career cut short and her life forever changed by a would-be … Click here to continue --->
Beyonce and Jay-Z did right by Cuba
“Wanna give me jail time and a fine Fine, Let me commit a real crime” — Jay-Z, “Open Letter” If pictures tell the tale, Beyonce and Jay-Z, so famous their last names need not be mentioned, had a marvelous time on their recent trip to Cuba, where they were trailed by starry-eyed fans, … Click here to continue --->
Dead kids won’t bring an assault weapons ban
Apparently, there will be no ban on assault weapons. Never mind that Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-type rifle to rip apart the bodies of babies at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Forget the fact that James E. Holmes, the alleged Aurora, Col. movie theater shooter, fired, … Click here to continue --->
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