This November, Pennsylvanians will elect a new judge to the state's Supreme Court. The contest is shaping up as another donnybrook pitting pro-life and pro-choice forces against one another. It doesn't require a Ph.D. in political science to guess how this one is going to turn out. Pro-choicers ...
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Benjamin Franklin's famous one-liner about the relationship between liberty and safety has intrigued me since I first read it in high school. ...
WASHINGTON — An ancient Roman poet foresaw former President Donald Trump as a deposed ruler raging to regain power: in a famous line, with "bread and circuses." Master satirist Juvenal poked at corruption in Rome's leaders. Yet he also aimed his pen at the people, who lost their right to ...
It wasn't a midnight train to Georgia that carried the 19 criminal defendants charged by a Fulton County grand jury to that county's sheriff's office to have their mug shots taken last week, but one by one they all made the humiliating trek to the local jail to post the bond needed to avoid ...
Today, the skies were bluer, the sun brighter and the birds' chirps sweeter. For today, my friends, the kids went back to school. As my children and their compatriots, sweetly arrayed in their first-day finery, trotted into the building, one mom collapsed, sobbing, into a friend's arms. "I ...
On Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Republican voters finally got a chance to see all the Republicans on stage for the first time — all, that is, except the front-runner, former President Donald Trump. He chose to do an interview with Tucker Carlson that streamed on Twitter. After the ...
Having completed the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign cycle, it's tempting to focus on minor but perhaps momentarily decisive details, such as whether Ron DeSantis was wise to outsource strategy to a committee that he's legally barred from communicating with or whether it was wise ...
"Maybe there is a beast. Maybe it's only us." — William Golding (1911-1993), "Lord of the Flies" Hidden within some folks are the souls of saints. Hidden within others are the souls of beasts. Torture unleashes the beasts. Nothing is more destructive of human decency, nothing is less ...
The Milwaukee debate was a travesty. Not that the moderators asked the wrong questions (though, seriously, UFOs?) or that the candidates gave the wrong answers — rather, the entire format is guaranteed to elicit the kind of behavior that least conduces to good leadership. There should be no ...
What about Hunter Biden? Well, what about him? If the president's son is found to have cheated on his taxes, the most serious accusation so far, then punish him. This is an interesting story but not a very important story until it's determined that his father, President Joe Biden, helped him ...
