The corruption of the human spirit here has infused every part of elite American culture.
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It only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done: offered thoughts and...
The surprisingly malleable timeline of the Las Vegas shooting reminds me of this quotation from George Orwell’s 1984: “History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” This timeline keeps changing for reasons unexplained, and each update...
The horrifying scene at a practice field in Alexandria, Virginia, at which Congressman Steve Scalise was shot in a shocking flurry of gunfire, could have been much worse. Rand Paul pointed out that “it would have been a massacre” had a member of the House leadership not been there. His...
I’m thinking about the problem of disappearing frogs. Where do we stand with that? Well, Amphibians.org has the Disappearing Frog Project, a global effort to save the frog from the ravages of economic development. The latest update to this site was February 17, 2017, and if you go back a...
The courts are hearing an old lawsuit over whether Americans can be banned from owning guns for life, based on a previous stay in a mental hospital.
Every time conservatives scream about gays or immigrants or what a Democrat did or didn’t say, they come across as intolerant, uninformed wackos.
The Centers for Disease Control have been in the news a lot lately, begging Congress for money to address the spread of the Zika virus.
Now the disparate factions of the raucous House Republicans have to settle on another speaker.
This is the America we live in today, this is the legacy we’re leaving our children.