It's midterms crunch time, so we are hearing endless political promises from all candidates. My hope is that with so much talk about affordability and economic growth, a voter or two would raise their hand and ask about price controls and credit card caps. These might seem such minuscule ...
As part of Donald Trump's trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn't a trade war, the president has signed an executive order, renaming Lake Ontario, "Lake America." This follows his renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." These childish antics help no one, but ...
WASHINGTON — Sure, build a ballroom dwarfing the clean and classic design of the White House. Go ahead, murder the history of Lafayette Square with prison bars keeping tourists away from our traditional place of dissent. Close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since it will ...
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of ...
Descartes wrote, “I think, therefore I am.” Questionable. St. Augustine stated that he made mistakes, therefore someone was mistaken. Clever, but to love is a more convincing proof of existence. Love evokes states of mind, heart, soul and emotion. To love deeply without reservation, involves all of the sacred, subtle, spiritual, powerful aspects of human existence. Along with the lesser refined aspects of the physical constitution. Crudely and rashly, one might put one’s hand in a flame, with the scream and feeling of pain prove that one exists. But who or what? One can peer ...
My eight-year-old grandson said, “Goong Goong (Chinese granddad), you soooo old that when you were a kid, ‘OLD Navy’ was just ‘Navy’.” I get no respect. The other day, a middle-aged supermarket clerk asked me, “Eh, uncle, want help with your bag?” Auwe! Since when did other adults think I look old? When did I get “promoted” from “cuz” or “brah” to “uncle?” So more than a little “habut,” (self-loathing) I just retorted, “Eh, no talk about my wife like that.” But Ai-yah! More long-lost nephews and nieces keep popping up every time I go ...
