Immigration
This is a slightly edited republication of a March 2022 column on solutions to solve the illegal immigrant crisis. The polling mentioned here is less favorable to illegals today than it was three years ago. I present the reprint as reasonable, hopeful that you will join me in supporting it.
Politics
This is a public service, putting Project 2025 on the bullseye in the focus. You have been hearing a lot about it, and a lot of what you have heard is lies, distortions, and half-truths. Snopes takes a deep dive into the Heritage Foundation plan to reshape the U.S.
Culture
You can learn a lot about an author from what s/he [I don’t like “they” when gender is uncertain] thinks is important enough to include on the back cover of a book. Here’s a couple of quotes from Scott Galloway’s “Adrift: America in 100 charts”: “A
Politics
Who will win Thursday's presidential debate? It depends who is scoring it. There are three “judges” on the tribunal. # The (anti-Trump) Mainstream Media will see it one way, despite whether Donald J. Trump comes out rude and vicious, or polite and toned-down. (Don’t bet on the latter.
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I’m not going to use his name, because I am not looking for a Twitter X war, I am looking for honesty and transparency. The host of a Philadelphia radio station Wednesday morning stated as fact “most people aren’t in the stock market.” That statement was used to
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A friend of mine — at least I think she’s a friend — asks me why I don’t opine on Joe Biden’s age (because I am a year older than Biden, and that might give me unique insight into the, um, aging issue). I do. First, it’s not
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The Bad News for Joe Biden is that youth (18-30, roughly) have fallen out of love with him. The Good News is that the youth, in most elections, don’t show up in large numbers. Usually. But In 2020 the youth turnout climbed to a high of 50%, and Biden
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It is very easy, too easy, as you can see in this Washington Post column, to frame presidential contests involving Donald J. Trump as white supremacy versus racial tolerance. Columnist Perry Bacon, Jr., who is Black, actually wrote, “And because white people are likely to be the majority of voters
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Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch is a guilty pleasure for me, as is Christine Flowers, kicked out of the inquirer, but now published in the Delaware County Daily Times. Bunch is my connection to the Looney Left, Flowers to the Wing-Nut Right. I agree with her maybe half the