State of the Union
What is the state of the State of the Union?
With the advent of television, the SOTU is less information for Congress than it is a carnival pitch to lure citizens into the tent.
ChatGPT
Having a political chat with ChatGPT
Its first draft was complete, factual, and nonpartisan, giving arguments from both sides of the aisle, and the differing sides within the Democratic caucus, which is a fancy name for a street gang.
Social Security
Social Security in crisis, but here’s a quick fix
The light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train heading toward us.
Politics
After a great Week 1, a series of stumbles
President Donald J. Trump’s first week was pretty damn good. He kept promises by signing a flurry of executive actions, as he promised. You may not like them, but he ran on them and followed through. Promises made, promises kept. His inauguration day was also a triumph with him
Politics
So many U.S. institutions, so much failure
America is at a time of noisy peril. Some of us can’t abide others of us. Teachers are permitted to share their personal sexual experiences with third-graders, but no school child is required to pledge allegiance to the flag. Sexual fluidity gets more attention than traditional values such as
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