When I hear about immigrants showing up to their legally scheduled appointments only to be taken into custody and deported, I have to ask the president’s supporters if they think this is okay. If so, is there no difference between legal and illegal? When cancer and Alzheimer’s research is stopped in the middle of trials, does this make sense to anyone? If so, can someone explain it to me without relying on conspiracy theories? If […]

The hot-selling book “Abundance” is written by liberals who bash liberals, or more precisely, try to make them feel guilty. Sure, authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson shed some blame on conservatives for why America doesn’t build as easily as it used to. But it’s those liberals in expensive cities, the authors insist, who are callously driving less-than-rich families to move elsewhere. Klein and Thompson argue that Democrat-run “superstar” cities have failed to provide enough […]

The right-wing routinely demonizes family-friendly policies of liberals as “social engineering.” But look out! Here come those same politicians, putting on MAGA hard hats and firing up their political bulldozers to push one of the most arrogant and intrusive social schemes imaginable. They intend to re-engineer the American family! These “pronatalists” want families to conform to a Christian Nationalist family structure – specifically, a dominant man married to a subservient stay-at-home woman, having beaucoup children. […]

“It’s sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it,” President Donald Trump said, in explaining the hostility that overcomes veterans of his administration. Are they crazed because of what they’ve seen or what they’ve done? Or were they always crazed, which is why they were there in the first place? In Elon Musk’s case, it is clearly all of the above. Many books will be written about why Donald Trump won this election. […]

What do you do about Joni Ernst? The Republican senator from Iowa is being mocked by liberal media and beyond for her snarky response to a question about cuts in Medicaid: “We all are going to die.” That clumsy remark has been skewered for its insensitivity, but its greater significance lies in the bigger issue. Ernst answers to Donald Trump and no one else. She is not alone in this. Bowing down to Trump’s demands […]