It came as mild surprise that Netflix reported a sharp drop in viewers and even less surprise that CNN canceled its CNN+ channel. It’s not enough for streaming services to collect X dollars a month from subscribers. They have to deliver something in return. They do, but not often enough. During the COVID-19 hibernation, life […]

Of all the big lies that Republican officials and media personalities have deployed for partisan advantage over the past several years, the most sickening by far is their current campaign to depict Democrats as “groomers” – meaning that they are sexual predators who recruit underage victims. For years this sort of smear was weaponized against […]

Had I been midair when the Florida court struck down the face mask rule on public transportation, I’d have joined other passengers in cheering. And had I been on a certain Southwest flight, I would have cheered again at an attendant’s call to civility. “I require every passenger on my flight to treat everyone with […]

We and our allies are in a war to save civilization. Fortunately for us, Ukrainians are doing the fighting. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s barbaric assault on Ukraine has awakened Europe to the reality that he is truly evil and could continue his march westward. It is no coincidence that Sweden and Finland – once fiercely […]

How could this be? Under our noses, social media and all, we now have photographs of a genocide. Are those mass graves full of innocent civilians, people whose only crime was that they were in the way of a madman and his army? What do you call that, if not a crime? Of course, he […]