They are trying to wear us down. Although they don’t understand anything about those with whom they are dealing. Regular folks who love God, their family and their country aren’t the fascists or racists the left makes them out to be, with the daily barrage of propaganda designed to take good people down... more

President Trump keeps making me look good. Last week we repeated the sound advice we’ve frequently given him but which he regularly refuses to take - know when to shut up and listen to your staff. This week he sabotaged himself yet again. He totally wasted about 95 percent of the generally favorable media coverage and bipartisan huzzahs he got for his Afghanistan policy speech on Monday night... more

It was a fine day for protesting at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., where folks were enjoying their right to free speech in a productive and peaceable manner. Lafayette Square sits directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The park was packed with a variety of people the Saturday morning I visited nearly a decade ago... more

In the wake of the tragic events in Charlottesville, Va. - in response to the anger, violence and loss of life - many communities across the country are leading prayer vigils. I think that is a grand idea. I’m no theologian or philosopher, but at the age of 55, one thing has become evident. There is good in this world and there is evil - there is love and there is hate - and with every decision we make every moment of every day, we are moving toward one and away from the other... more

Will Labor Day be recognizable in another 20 years? Certainly, changes in culture, politics and technology will affect the love-hate relationship between capital and labor. Dizzying changes await this holiday. Yes, a holiday which honors the working people of the nation and grants them time to grill burgers and commemorate gains in workplace health and safety -- while waiting to watch NFL players dutifully knock each other’s brains out... more

Al Gore’s new movie, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, was an unqualified failure. It finished 21st last weekend and averaged a pathetic $644 per theater. It’s not just the hackneyed subtitle doomed it. It truly came at an inconvenient time. Gore has so exaggerated his global warming claims that it’s sent millions of people searching for the truth. ‘Exaggerated’ is being kind. Most of his claims are outright lies. Once people start scratching beneath the surface the truth is hard to hide... more

As we’ve said here before, Donald Trump has to learn to just shut up and let things go. The failure to do that is the worst Achilles heel of a president who seems to have half a dozen Achilles heels. Because he can’t think on his feet, because he doesn’t know how to say the right thing at the right time, because he thinks he’s got to win every petty argument with the anti-Trump media, the president has mired himself unnecessarily in yet another controversy of his own making... more

Leftists had a corporate autonomous sensory meridian response (brain orgasm) when one of the most racially divisive presidents in American history, Barack Obama, tweeted: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion.”... more

Time to dig a bomb shelter. Stockpile some Kool- Aid. Nibble some Tootsie Rolls while catching a double feature at the drive-in. Pull out your pedal pushers and Hula-hoops. Stick a transistor radio in a front shirt pocket and twist yourself into the ground replicating the gyrations of Elvis. Presley, not Costello... more

Duos. When I was growing up in the Sixties, I depended on Huntley and Brinkley for the news, Flatt and Scruggs for bluegrass music, Rowan and Martin for topical humor and Stan and Jack for four-color thrills. “Stan and Jack?” you ask. Surely you remember Stan “The Man” Lee and Jack “King” Kirby, the core creative forces of the Marvel Comics “bullpen.”... more

By Phil Valentine President Donald Trump was widely criticized for condemning the hatred and bigotry in Charlottesville “on many sides.” Turns out he was right. Before we get into the details, let me say without hesitation that I find the KKK, Nazis, and white supremacists repugnant. What one of them did by driving his car into a crowd of protesters is beyond horrible and he should be punished severely for it... more

Money does make us happy, so long as we spend it right. According to the U.K. newspaper The Independent, “New research from the University of British Columbia has found that spending money to buy free time, such as paying others to cook or clean for you, does improve happiness, leave you feeling less stressed and generally more satisfied with life.”... more

Will football someday become the world’s first virtual professional sport? With the NFL’s preseason underway, high school and college players back on the practice fields, and tens of thousands of fantasy leagues conducting their annual drafts, let’s put the question another way:... more

To say that people are gobsmacked by the overwhelming support by Christians for President Trump is an understatement. While I can understand why those from the party that booed God don’t get it, recent jabs by right-wing pundits are making it hard to differentiate between conservative purists and political snobs... more

What happened? We gave the Republicans control of the House so they could repeal Obamacare. They said they needed the Senate. We gave them that. Oh, we tried on multiple occasions, they said. Mean ole Obama vetoes it. So we gave them the White House. The House, the Senate, and the White House. Slam dunk. Obamacare’s toast. Nope. Here we sit... more

Have you purchased your $500 bottle of Solar Red Wine? It’s one of countless products created to cash in on the total solar eclipse that will cut a swath 60 to 70 miles wide from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21. Savvy shoppers can also obtain solar eclipse playing cards, solar eclipse neckties, solar eclipse dresses, glow-in-the-dark cakes and Darkest Hour black cherry soda. ... more

“A 125-year life expectancy for human beings? I have zero desire to stick around that long.” “Ah, yes, you speak of a debate among scientists over human longevity. I read about it at Business Insider. Some scientists argue that the maximum age humans may live is 115 years, whereas others argue that 125 years is possible.”... more

Usually it takes a lot of boring three-yard runs and a thick cloud of dust to drive any important piece of legislation across the goal line in Washington. But at this late stage of the game QB Donald Trump and his Republican teammates are going to need a Hail Mary... more

Canada is often touted in the United States as the panacea of health care, leadership, love, peace and thick bacon. Listening to Democrats Bernie Sanders, Maxine Waters and Chuck Schumer, one would think there are no Canadians waiting longer than Americans for life-saving surgeries or just to see a doctor in an emergency room... more

It is going to take more than recycling a worn-out message with shiny new paper and presenting it wearing wrinkly, dress-down clothes to attract the folks in flyover country. Nevertheless, that’s what they did, when three has-beens, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren arrived in rolled-up sleeves and wrinkled pants in Berryville, VA on July 24, to introduce their party’s new slogan, “A Better Deal.”... more