To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Political Message From Omaha Should Be Obvious
As I flew into Omaha for the first time, the only thing visible from my descending plane was cornfields. You could even see the tassels. I was wondering, where is the city? There certainly was a city, with a world-class medical center, famous zoo and great nightlife. Old school steakhouses mixed with Persian and Asian restaurants. Anyone who had spent time in cosmopolitan Omaha would be totally unsurprised that Joe Biden flipped its congressional district […]
My Church Is A Farmer’s Market – And Vice Versa
Well, habemus papam. Welcome, Pope Leo! Bless him … and us. I hope no one thinks I am blasphemous, but I go to a church nearly every Saturday that is not denominational. It isn’t held in any sort of ornate cathedral, temple or mosque. It’s a plain wooden, open-air shed with a metal roof and a loose brick floor – but it’s filled with goodness, joy and a diversity of devotees who share in the […]
Canada Starts The Real Resistance To Trump
Most remarkable about the recent Canadian election is that patriotism rather than raw economic interest propelled voters to resist Donald Trump. Canadians rejected the MAGA-fied Conservative Party, despite an economy suffering from anemic growth and high housing costs, all pinned on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. Trump’s devastating tariff war would have sent a submissive electorate toward appeasement. The opposite happened. The Liberals, headed by Mark Carney, overcame a recent 20-point-plus deficit in the polls to […]
Sheer Lunacy
What do you do when you’ve screwed up so badly that any competent president would be demanding your resignation? Easy. Attack women. That’s the solution Pete Hegseth, reeling from an unauthorized disclosure of war plans to his wife [and his brother and his lawyer], adopted this week. On Tuesday, in what his leaking-like-a-sieve aides reportedly described to NBC News as an effort to distract attention from his own wrongdoing, Hegseth took to social media to […]
Vengeance Is The Word
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump constantly complained about the “weaponization” of the Justice Department, arguing that its prosecution of him was politically motivated. But as president, Trump has weaponized the entire federal government, to investigate and punish those he considers the “enemy from within” – whether it is current or former employees of the government, law firms that have crossed him, states and cities that cross him, universities that value academic freedom that […]
