The Barbarity of a Nation
WASHINGTON — Executives of Planned Parenthood’s federally subsidized meat markets — your tax dollars at work — lack the courage of their convictions. They should drop the pretense of conducting a...
View ArticleDrug Cartels’‘Vocabulary of Mutilation’
WASHINGTON — Don Winslow, novelist and conscientious objector to America’s longest “war,” was skeptical when he was in Washington on a recent Sunday morning. This was shortly after news broke about...
View ArticleWhen History Books Make History
WASHINGTON — History books can be historic events, making history by ending important arguments. They can make it impossible for any intellectually honest person to assert certain propositions that...
View ArticleTrump, The Counterfeit Republican
WASHINGTON — In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth beer and innumerable delusions. Because the actual...
View ArticleEncrusted With Subsidies
WASHINGTON — You probably never knew of the federal funding of museums commemorating America’s long-gone whaling industry. The funding existed for 10 years, until 2011, because almost no one knew about...
View ArticleHonoring Ike With A Monstrosity
WASHINGTON — We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and economize waste and annoyance by just building the proposed $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. But long after its perpetrators are...
View ArticleTrump Defines Down The GOP
WASHINGTON — It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of...
View ArticleThe Havoc That Trump Wreaks
WASHINGTON — Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Donald Trump finishes plastering a snarling face on...
View ArticleAffirming A Right To Die
SAN DIEGO — Brittany Maynard was soon to die. The question was whether she could do so on her own terms, as a last act of autonomy. Dr. Lynette Cederquist, who regrets that Maynard had to move to...
View ArticleThe Blood-Stained Indian Child Welfare Act
“It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” — Chief Justice John Roberts WASHINGTON — Sordid, always. And sometimes lethal, as some Native American children could attest, were they not,...
View ArticleTrump Is A Malleable Mess
“I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was...
View ArticleRedeeming the Remainder of a Life
GRAFTON, Ohio — The man at the front of the room in the prison here is talking about the institution’s culinary and hospitality training that will help some of his fellow inmates “give back to the...
View ArticleA Mission To Reform Lives Behind Bars
CLEVELAND — About a mile from where the Cleveland Indians test their fans’ patience, there is a facility that expresses Ohio’s attempt to temper justice with patience. The facility resembles a school,...
View ArticleFrancis’ Fact-Free Flamboyance
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false and deeply...
View ArticleYogi Berra, an American story
WASHINGTON — The 18-year-old U.S. Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944, volunteered for service on what he thought an officer had called “rocket...
View ArticleThe Bobblehead Campaign
WASHINGTON — America’s loopy left is enamored of someone who becomes cranky about bobblehead figurines. Sober Democrats are queasy about nominating Hillary Clinton, who has much to apologize for but no...
View ArticleOur Navy, Our Character
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s operations, on which the sun never sets, are the nation’s nerve endings, connecting it with the turbulent world. Although the next president may be elected without addressing...
View ArticleFinding Our Place In The Universe
BALTIMORE — Twinkling stars are pretty but, for astronomers, problematic. Twinkles are caused by the interference of Earth’s atmosphere with light radiating throughout the breathtakingly beautiful and...
View ArticleImpeach The IRS Director
WASHINGTON — “Look,” wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, “my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally...
View ArticleTed Cruz Calculates A Path To The Nomination
DALLAS — If America’s 58th presidential election validates Ted Cruz’s audacious “base plus” strategy, he will have refuted assumptions about the importance of independent “swing” voters and the inertia...
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