I applaud people attempting to bridge divides in America, so two cheers to the New York Times鈥� David Brooks for taking a stab at understanding Donald Trump鈥檚 popularity from the point of view of his supporters. Why not three cheers? Read on.Brooks writes that most people in elite circles ...
They鈥檙e lining up to take on the current president of these United States 鈥� 鈥淪mokin'" Joe Biden.There are two Democrats 鈥� anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and self-help author Marianne Williamson. There鈥檚 a third-party candidate 鈥� Professor Cornel West.Republicans, though, are ...
It will be the greatest of ironies if Donald John Trump is convicted of crimes against the Constitution he swore to uphold.How so?The first irony is obvious. Presidents are tasked with seeing that the laws are faithfully executed. Trump is the first and only president to be charged with ...
It鈥檚 been said that movies no longer have the central place in the cultural conversation they once did, and for evidence consider that neither Washington, Greene nor Fayette counties have a multiplex cinema anymore. There is a drive-in Dunbar, but if you want to see 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥� or ...
CHICAGO 鈥� Carl Sandburg鈥檚 hog butcher, wheat stacker, city of the big shoulders 鈥� was once America鈥檚 candy capital, catering to the nation鈥檚 sweet tooth. Today it is less so because the federal government interferes with candy鈥檚 most important ingredient.With Halloween on the ...
I had a tough argument with a friend who was incensed that our local police had placed traffic cameras at major intersections. He felt that the authorities were running surveillance on innocent citizens. I countered that if police officers sitting in their cars observed drivers going through ...
