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You know the deal. If it makes me laugh, I use it. This made me laugh. And it is almost believable.
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Guns
Poll question on guns
I am generally opposed to banning “assault rifles” for two reasons. First, we had a 10-year ban starting in 1994, and the results were mixed, at best. That’s why the law was allowed to sunset. Second, “assault rifle” is not a legal term, like the media-popular “weapon of war.
Guns
Guest essay: Gun laws rarely help
By Leah Libresco Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly. Then, my
Culture
“Who’s on First” for 21st Century America
Here’s a modern-day satirical reworking of the famous Abbott & Costello “Who’s on First?” sketch. The author is William Kilpatrick. ABBOTT: Did you see this story in the paper about the boy who was charged with sexual harassment? COSTELLO: What did he do? ABBOTT: He used the wrong
Culture
Solving the school shooting crisis
While the facts -- such as questionable police action -- continue to unspool, one fact jumped out at me: Mad Dog Ramos entered the building through an unlocked door. A door, that a journalist on the scene reported, was supposed to have been locked, with a self-locking mechanism. Even when
Guns
Answering Joe Biden’s question about ”why”
In his Wednesday-night address to the nation following the school massacre in Texas, an anguished President Joe Biden asked some questions, after saying most Americans favor “common sense” gun laws. “I just got off my trip from Asia, meeting with Asian leaders, and I learned of this while I was
Politics
Georgia elections on my mind
Remember when the chicken-legged clowns who run Major League Baseball actually moved the All-Star Game from Black majority Atlanta to white majority Denver to protest the racist and voter-suppression laws passed by the Georgia legislature? Other corporations, stampeded by the woke on Twitter who hadn’t read the law, cravenly
Politics
The most cynical book in the world
At the recommendation of friends, I took a book on my recent vacation. The book, “The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics,” is the most cynical nonfiction I have read, drawing parallels between how democracies and autocracies operate. But. . . Authors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and
Culture
Guest Essay: Tuning out Wokeism
By Victor Davis Hanson The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40-million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90-million castle, as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top
Bicycle Lanes
Breaking down the Ben Franklin Parkway
I’m only human (despite what some of you have heard). I like it when my opinions, and predictions, are found to be valid. Such as what’s jumping with the unwanted and unneeded redesign of Philadelphia’s most beautiful mile (aside from East Allegheny Avenue) — the Benjamin Franklin Racist
Immigration
Replacement theory is real, but...
So now we have a new theory to learn: Replacement Theory, to go along with Critical Race Theory, and Social & Emotional Learning Theory, as things that divide Americans. What moves Replacement Theory to the head of the line was how it helped push 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron into a
Culture
My bad America
Yesterday’s column ended with me saying we had nostalgia about earlier days, signifying the column itself was nostalgia, and nostalgia is always sentimental and golden. Even as I wrote the column, I knew I was turning a blind eye to some of the bad things about “my” America, the