Politics
The big issues candidates don’t talk about
Has anyone been making an issue out of our ginormous national debt, $40 trillion?
Abortion
Abortion bans have not reduced abortions
Let’s turn to an unpleasant subject — abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the red flags were sent flying. The message: As more states eliminated or restricted abortion, the number of the procedures would go down. They have not. The zero abortion rate in states
Culture
No, Americans did not vote for fascism
The post mortem continues, with the Inquirer headlining, in the print edition, a story , “Why voters rejected Dems’ fascism warnings.” I’ll summarize the story this way: Voters cared more about the economy than democracy. That’s the Inquirer’s take, speaking for hard Left, Democratic bed-wetters. Mine is
Abortion
Abortion vacations?
Don’t panic ladies -- abortion is still legal, depending on where you live (and assuming only women can get pregnant). Despite the U.S. Supreme Court reversing Roe v, Wade, no woman will be more than two states away from a state that permits -- some actually encourage -- abortion. Here’s
Culture
Whose America do you live in?
When I saw that headline in last Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, I thought, yessssss! Finally, they get it. Then — uh-oh. Who is the “we” Will Bunch is talking about? When he writes about America, his column is the predictable porridge of pessimism and grievance. In this one, the world
Abortion
Abortion will not disappear from America
Cards on the table: While I find abortion to be awful, I would not ban it. Can any rational person “like” it? Going back to the 1992 Bill Clinton dictum, it should be safe, rare, and legal. That was brilliantly crafted as an umbrella to include pro-choicers, alongside those
Abortion
A different take on abortion, and equity
In reality, both sides have valid arguments. About abortion. The two sides are pro-abortion or anti-abortion, but since the A for abortion is something of a scarlet letter, the two sides organize themselves as pro-life or pro-choice. Because being pro sounds better than anti. The problem
Politics
Thanksgiving dinner? Shut up!
My family was immune from the verbal pyrotechnics that sometimes plague the major clan-gathering events at year’s end — Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why? We celebrated neither. We were not anti-American. We were Jewish and while you may understand us not hoisting a Christmas tree (although some of us