Remember when Congress swung back to the Republicans during Barack Obama’s second term because the Democrats squandered their Congressional control by attempting to play nice with Republicans and got “shellacked,” …
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I see their faces
From time to time, horrifying images from the Holocaust death camps pass before my eyes, prompting me to consider the magnitude of the unfathomable cruelty inflicted on an entire race …
Megyn Kelly, we hardly knew ye
Photo by Vulture.com. I know when I say that I’m feeling sorry for Megyn Kelly, it’ll have the same reaction as farting in a crowded room. People will wrinkle their …
Trump holds gun to the heads of immigrant children
Were I a cartoonist, I’d draw this: Trump holding a gun to the head of a weeping immigrant child, harkening to the chilling 1968 photo of the Saigon execution, with …
The answer to gun violence is ‘all of the above’
As the gun control debate rages on, the most frustrating aspect of this ideological fight to the death is its “either/or” nature. It’s not “either/or”. It’s “all of the above.” …
Our problem isn’t gun violence — it’s domestic terrorism
School shootings — they always happen somewhere else. Except when they don’t. How many of us, for one fleeting, guilt-drenched nano-second, felt a flash of relief that the latest mass …
It’s time to chop off the head of the gun violence serpent — and it’s not the NRA
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. The next politician offering thoughts and prayers for the victims of our mass shooting du jour (today, it’s 17 dead in …
Fire the lawyers — we’re under hashtag law now
Notice to all lawyers and judges: Clear out your desks, gather up your stuff. You’re all fired. Your services are no longer needed. Take your place in history next to …
Are you feeling Trumpled?
You people are awesome. I asked readers to invent a new word that captures the feeling that goes with a Donald Trump presidency, and you came through like champions! In …
Thanks, Obama… no really — thank you
Dear President Obama, I watched your farewell address last week, and I must say — I was embarrassed. Thoroughly ashamed. Oh, not at you! Heavens no! Ashamed at how horribly …