The murders of two New York City police officers last weekend is another grim reminder that there鈥檚 a painfully persistent racial divide in this country.Not the murders themselves -- their aftermath.To be clear, Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were the victims of the acts of a raging ...
I don鈥檛 have to tell you this, but there鈥檚 always lots of news.Last week, President Obama signed a $1.1 trillion dollar budget deal; madmen attacked innocent people in Sydney, Australia and in Pakistan; there鈥檚 a thaw in the 60 year hostilities between Cuba and the United States, and ...
I鈥檓 a staunch liberal. I believe that anybody who isn鈥檛 one is always wrong.I take that back. I鈥檇 like to apologize for making that statement. I apologize if I offended anybody by it. That鈥檚 what you鈥檇 call a 鈥渘on-apology apology.鈥濃�淣on-apology apologies鈥� are the current ...
Do you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?Now, I'm not talking about paranoia, I'm talking about how every time you turn around, there's that person that you think might be following you. It appears that I have someone behind me.I think it's funny. Let's see now. I faulted Mr. ...
Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a tyrant?On Jan. 1, 1863, with one swipe of his imperial pen, he issued an executive order that proclaimed that three to four million slaves would no longer be considered property.What a crazy idea.Smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, the President of the ...
Sometimes the news just makes itself.Breitbart.com, which has been known to spread fact-bereft, right-wing nonsense all over the Internet, just made news, while it thought it was reporting it.鈥淥bama鈥檚 attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch represented Clintons during Whitewater,鈥� said ...