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Remembering the Man Behind the Superheroes Nov. 19, 2018
When kids in the 1960s went to spend their allowance or paper-route money on comic books, they had a... Read More
Changes the GOP Should Love Nov. 13, 2018
I first ran into Heracliltus, a great Grecian shedder of tears, while writing in college about the f... Read More
Midterms: Republicans Had a Great Story to Tell -- and It Staved Off Disaster Nov. 08, 2018
As expected, Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives. But the much-anticipated "b... Read More
Why I Was Heartbroken Nov. 08, 2018
The October 27th Shabbat massacre of Jews at Tree of Life, a Pittsburgh suburban synagogue, cannot b... Read More
Legislate or Investigate Nov. 08, 2018
Nationwide, there are massive sighs of relief that the midterms are over and election ads, flyers an... Read More
The Election's Over -- Now What? Nov. 08, 2018
It was almost unsettling to wake up the morning after the election and realize it turned out pretty ... Read More
Nine Takeaways from the Midterms Nov. 08, 2018
The much-anticipated "most-important-midterm-election-in-our-lifetime" is over. Democrats have a nar... Read More
Hillary Destroys Bill's Legacy Nov. 05, 2018
Hillary Clinton has been toxic for Bill Clinton's legacy. Since he left the White House, his history... Read More
Beware of the Real Gremlins This Season Oct. 31, 2018
As we enter another long season of direful winter darkness, we are beset by back-to-back waves of sp... Read More
Not About Left vs. Right, but Insider vs. Outsider Oct. 30, 2018
Democrats have had all of the opportunity in the world to win and win big in this year's midterm ele... Read More
How Much Longer Can We Keep It? Oct. 26, 2018
On the day pipe bombs arrived at CNN, Barack Obama's office and Hillary Clinton's home, The New York... Read More
A Bawdyhouse of Bad Right-Wing Ideas Oct. 24, 2018
Ideally, elections are about ideas. In our dark times of money-soaked, bitterly negative campaigns, ... Read More
Trump Has Revolutionized Politics. Can Democrats Catch Up? Oct. 05, 2018
Donald Trump may last; he may go away. But the influence of his revolutionary approach to American p... Read More
The Redistributionist Consensus in DC Nov. 01, 2017
What is the proper purpose of federal taxation? Is it to fund the constitutionally limited functions... Read More
'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice': Ben Affleck Dons the Crusader's Cape, but the Movie's Real Wonder Is a Woman Mar. 25, 2016
(This is a movie review, so there are spoilers ahead. Beware, I guess.) There are interminable stret... Read More
A Legendary Failure of Liberalism May. 20, 2014
When Brown v. Board of Education, the 9-0 Warren Court ruling came down 60 years ago, desegregating ... Read More
DC Schools: $29,349 Per Pupil, 83 Percent Not Proficient in Reading May. 14, 2014
The public schools in Washington, D.C., spent $29,349 per pupil in the 2010-2011 school year, accord... Read More
No Free Lunch After All! Dec. 10, 2013
The late, great Milton Friedman used to say, there's no such thing as a free lunch. The ancient Roma... Read More
