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The Democratic Socialists of America released their platform last month, and let’s give them credit for candor. They want public ownership of large corporations, the abolition of police and prisons, a defunded Pentagon and open borders. Conservatives read that document and saw the future they ...
On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn’t take any of us kids with her and didn’t say where she was going. But she was gone for a couple of hours. The day that Richard Nixon finally faced mounting public ...
Brides should know that they already have a man. They don’t have to use their wedding to attract a date for Saturday night. They’ve supposedly secured one for the foreseeable future. Thus, it’s hard to figure how the fashion trend of “naked dressing,” lamentable even at nightclubs, ...
The resounding defeat of the proposed Kansas constitutional amendment on Supreme Court selection demonstrates a fundamental democratic principle: political leaders may set the agenda, but voters retain the ultimate authority to accept or reject it. The amendment, championed by Senate president ...
Swearing was once rare, reserved to convey the utmost shock, pain or rage, or the deepest disappointment, disgust or disbelief. The audiences at “Gone with the Wind” in 1939 were scandalized when Scarlett O’Hara asked Rhett Butler what would become of her if he left, and Rhett, played ...
The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and his own CIA had ...