I'm forming a new political party.
No offense intended to the two major ones we already have, but they stink. OK, well, if I'm being honest, some offense was intended. Currently, we're at "invading Venezuela to distract attention from the Epstein files" levels of incompetence, so a bit of ...
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.
Case in point, one of the most successful ...
Affordability. It's the word on everybody's lips.
Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral election by saying the word "affordability" with talismanic regularity, we have been told that the key to modern politics is that word's ...
I’ve been thinking a lot about community in the last few weeks.
We are just now wrapping up a municipal election cycle that occasionally got pretty divisive. I heard from and talked to many citizens of our cities as well as candidates about their ideas and often their frustrations.
Almost ...
In a recent interview, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared in unequivocal terms that President Donald Trump was "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." You heard that right. Not a threat to democracy, not a danger to civility, the worst thing on the face of the Earth. It was a ...
While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs federal law enforcement to ...