There is no mistaking the left-wing themes of the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor. Set five years before the movie Rogue One, Andor shows the Empire strip mining planets, exploiting workers, arresting innocent people, and massacring civilians. At a time when the Democratic Party is claiming that the Trump administration is arresting U.S. citizens and […]
This morning, I was driving the elementary school car pool, and my tactic of choice was playing classical music. This may have made the five children a little less wild, but it didn’t lull them into a reverie. Right after 8 o’clock, between Beethoven’s First Symphony and a symphony by Frederick the Great, WETA, D.C.’s […]
PITTSBURGH — For the second consecutive Democratic primary cycle, an incumbent city of Pittsburgh mayor fell to a member of his own party. Last night, Mayor Ed Gainey lost to fellow Democrat Corey O’Connor in a race that wasn’t even close by the end of the night. Just four years earlier, Gainey, then a representative […]
“All my n***** Nazis, n*****, heil Hitler.” This Shakespearean line is the chorus of Kanye “Ye” West’s latest song, “Heil Hitler,” in which he explains his descent into Nazism. The song begins with, “Man these people took my kids from me, then they froze my bank account. I got so much anger in me, got […]
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board? The Biden administration has been repudiated […]
The House GOP's “big, beautiful bill” will add so much money to the debt it will force across-the-board spending cuts to Medicare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO late Tuesday said the legislation will increase the debt by $2.3 trillion over 10 years. That will trigger as much as $500 billion in...
President Trump’s tax-and-spending cut bill centers on an extension of his previous round of tax cuts, which Republicans slated for expiration at the end of this year back in 2017. As such, it will preserve the status quo on many big parts of the code so that taxpayers won’t see any change in things like...
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) bill that takes aim at President Trump’s deal with Qatar to accept a luxury jet as a gift to serve as the next Air Force One. Schumer attempted to pass the measure, which would essentially bar the use of a foreign-owned aircraft as the presidential...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday that street signs in Manhattan have been “temporarily co-named” to honor individual players on the New York Knicks as the team advances to the 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000. The city installed blue-and-orange street signs on 15 street corners across Manhattan,...