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Politics get stranger

Politics is becoming stranger than ever and worst mannered. Despite some hints that bipartisanship would somehow break out, the evidence does not support such an occurrence. Amity is not the spirit of the season; blood red partisan fury, unfortunately, is. Mike Johnson’s eagerness to adjourn the House of Representatives is so frequent that one is tempted to believe he would prefer the one-session popular in the 19th century. As for Donald Trump, he is not in a particularly good mood, so forget National Brotherhood Week. As a result, much does not get done, and Republicans seem ...

Socialism vs. Capitalism

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, “College students prefer socialism to capitalism.” Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet Union “wasn’t real socialism.” Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union “was about as remote from socialism as you could imagine.” Give me a break. The Soviets made private business illegal. If that’s not socialism, I’m not sure what is. “Socialism means abolishing private property and ... replacing it with some form of collective ...

Trump says Kirk’s murder changed his life

EXCLUSIVE — In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear. The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds gathering hours early amid music and pageantry. Local heroes, union leaders, elected officials and retired military officers cycled through as warmup speakers, firing up the audience between tracks like Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of ...

‘Syrupy Minutes’ on CBS?

CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi raged against the network’s Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss when she delayed her story on how the Trump administration deported illegal immigrants from Venezuela to a “notorious” prison in El Salvador. Weiss wanted more reporting and more rebuttal from the Trump administration in it. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi complained in a memo leaked to the media. “We go from ...

Dialing down the angst and the hatred

During the Christmas truce in 1914, the world witnessed an outpouring of humanity and good sense. In the fifth month of World War I, a ceasefire was announced from December 24 to 26. After it went into effect, remarkable episodes of fraternization occurred. Hardened enemies suddenly became friends sharing tobacco, alcohol, singing together, and enjoying the time shared. Unlike their governments, they found commonality, and death took a holiday. A divine hand seemed to stem the tide of insanity. In our own time, it seems that madness is once again afoot. Massacres, mayhem, and ...

Omar can accuse ICE with no proof

As a leftist Muslim immigrant from Somalia, radical Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is wonderfully blessed with a DEI press. She is perennially assumed to be a victim of racism, sexism and xenophobia whenever she is criticized, and especially when she’s verbally targeted by President Donald Trump. At the end of a typically syrupy interview with Esme Murphy from the local CBS station WCCO in Minneapolis on Sunday, Omar claimed her 19-year-old son Adnan Hirsi was pulled over by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement personnel. “Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled ...