Category: General News

In 2016, I watched Donald Trump dominate the debates with Hillary Clinton with a sick sense in my gut. Mostly that was the booze I’d swilled like Prohibition was coming back, but there was something more. That something came to pass on election night. Slow-forward through the misery of the last four years to 2020…

The first mistake government made – and we allowed it to make – was to decide that there needs to be a law that covers every conceivable occurrence and codifies the outcome of each legal confrontation. False!

On a day like today, I think it’s fair to ask if automatic weapons have any place in American society. Today is also a reminder that, as ham-handed and even loathsome as government interference in our lives is, there are in fact people, if you can call them that, in this country we need to…

Lisa Benson:

Freedom and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from prison in Burma. Suu Kyi, who has endured years in the military dictatorship’s custody, has exhibited more courage in her lifetime than all of her opponents combined. Here’s to her and this apparent victory over the forces of oppression that enslave her nation!…

A quick note from my sister who’s been living in Germany for a couple of years: “just so everyone knows….the radio and tv in Germany is saying how bad it is in America! I am here to tell you…not true. America is free and Americans have hope and a spirit that I have not seen…

Melanie Phillips: Prison is supposed to help inmates get on the straight and narrow. Yet when they go to jail they have arrived in junkie heaven.

Why? Because by definition they take money (property) away from its rightful owner and bestow it, unearned, on another person. Government actions that violate this principle inherit this inherent flaw and are wrong because of it.

See anything offensive in this ad? The NCAA does. No wonder this country’s jacked up.