Democrats are reportedly worried that their efforts to register non-registered voters could be helping Trump as Biden continues to lose support from key voting groups.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested an illegal immigrant charged with rape of a minor in Massachusetts. The suspect had been released from state custody.
Why would a multibillion-dollar healthcare company fire a white male executive for no cause, only to replace him with a black woman weeks later? Because the company’s Diversity and Inclusion Executive Council told them to, that’s why. And while the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the fired executive is entitled to […]
There’s probably a nicer way to put this, but I’m just going to come out and say it: People in the ancient world suffered from major anxiety disorders. It’s fashionable these days to think of the ancients as repositories of great wisdom. We’re not supposed to use words such as “primitive” and “ignorant” to describe […]
My fellow veterans in the Facebook veterans group warned me not to write about the E4 Mafia. I should have listened. My most recent column contains errors so obvious that I absolutely deserve the ”What the hell is the matter with you?” messages from readers. I should have made sure I understood the NCO ranks […]
As a measure of how lefty my upbringing was, we had a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hanging on the kitchen wall. My parents were ’60s activists-turned-urban pioneer social workers, my father a charter member of Missouri’s New Left, and my mother a Greenwich Village folkie by way of the bus from Jersey. And […]
“Armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy, Patrick Swayze …” — do we even need the rest of that sentence? Could the capsule summary of the original 1989 Road House append any predicate that wouldn’t be awesome? “Ups production at the local cardboard factory.” “Attends George H.W. Bush’s inauguration.” “Gets […]
Last month, the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez published his seventh novel, Until August. (The pedantic might suggest that at a slim 110 pages in suspiciously large type, it is more accurately described as a novella, but never mind.) There would be nothing especially remarkable about this, save that Márquez died almost exactly a […]