‘Twas the night before carpet, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring except one very confused cat. While Pa with his backache, And I with my head, had just settled down On a strange makeshift bed. We’d decided to carpet all of our floors, Inside the ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth views warfare through the lens of a cartoonish Macho Man, claiming that military members “are not defenders anymore”; they are “warriors, trained to kill the enemy and break their will.” Directing the war in Iran, he ordered, ”No quarter, no mercy for ...
As a child, my father made me read National Geographic stories and summarize each paragraph with a single written sentence. I would have preferred to watch what my father called the “boob tube,” and it would have been easier for him to let me. Instead, he insisted that I keep reading and ...
Those of you of a certain vintage — who, like me, are close to being fitted for coffins — must be applauding the re-appearance on TV (the INSP channel) of Have Gun - Will Travel (for some reason with a hyphen, not a dash or a comma; let’s call it HGWT). That extraordinarily popular show ...
The Trump Administration 2.0 will be famous for a lot of things. And one of them is the number of “national emergencies” the President has declared. To give you all a short history of the national emergency declaration, the first one was issued by President Woodrow Wilson in February ...
CHAUTAUQUA, New York -- The road here feels like one of those places that America keeps tucked away on purpose -- the kind that you don't stumble into by accident. You come in from the hills and hollows and farm country, past the modest storefronts and weathered porches, and then the land ...
