Category Archives: Comments on Society

Requiem for a Featherweight

How Merrick Garland Has Neutered the DOJ!

For anyone with a functioning brain, Merrick Garland may well have turned out to be the new administration’s very first quisling. More Neville Chamberlain than Aaron Burr, Garland’s net effect at the DOJ has nonetheless been insidiously carcinogenic....

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The Quantum American Violence Cocktail

GUNS and a Whole Lot More…

A terrible thing happened to me in the wake of the school shooting at Santa Fe, Texas last week. I blocked it out. It took place on a Friday afternoon. And I didn’t want to hear about it. I went numb and then sought some other forms of diversion. The...
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The ‘Carly’ Conundrum

Fiorina’s Rise in the GOP Proves That No One Vets Anyone Anymore

I love early, if premature, campaigns like the “Iowash” Caucuses and that expanded Town Hall called New Hampshire. They become a kind of polemic test-lab for political candor that comes virtually without recourse. Political candidates seem to be able...

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