"Someone could be smiling, someone could be dancing, laughing, having a great time, expressing all this joy, but on the inside, they could really be fighting a battle that you never know about." These are the poignant words of Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Solomon Thomas in describing his ...
I'm forming a new political party. No offense intended to the two major ones we already have, but they stink. OK, well, if I'm being honest, some offense was intended. Currently, we're at "invading Venezuela to distract attention from the Epstein files" levels of incompetence, so a bit of ...
Trump claimed last week on social media that "Our economy is booming, and costs are coming way down," and that "grocery prices are way down." Rubbish. How do I know he's lying? Official government statistics haven't been issued during the shutdown -- presumably to Trump's relief (the White ...
Two friends email from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The resignations followed exposure of the splicing together of two parts of a speech by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.The edits made it ...
For generations, foreign policy eggheads debated the question, "Who lost China?" I'm wondering if election analysts might soon ask, "Who lost the Latinos?" Almost exactly one year ago, President Trump won an impressive election victory. It wasn't the landslide his boosters claim, but it was ...
Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, ...