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When a wrong narrative hides truth

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative. Such has been the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador, who violated U.S. immigration laws and has lived in Maryland for the last 13 years. The media describe him as a “Maryland man” simply because he has been living in that state, but for fewer years than he lived in his native country. The Department of Homeland Security characterizes him quite ...

Stars and Stripes meant home

In a couple of months, I am planning a business trip to Europe. I don’t scare easy, but despite the fact that I’m an American citizen and have committed no crime, I am worried about what might happen when I attempt to come home. Will Customs and Border Patrol agents pull me from the customs line as they did to Amir Makled? He’s an American citizen, too, a lawyer born and raised in Detroit who was returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. But he happens to represent a pro-Palestinian student protester. CBP detained Makled and demanded access to his phone. CBP can demand ...

Weaponization of federal government

There simply is no balderdash that Donald Trump hasn’t elevated to an art form, a point so obvious by now that it’s ceased to register. Lately, the Balderdash-O-Meter seems to crash hourly, as the president who claimed with a straight face to be running against a “weaponized” Biden administration devotes himself full throttle to weaponizing executive power against his opponents, writing a dark proto-fascist chapter of American history unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Trump’s campaign tirades about being the supposed victim of a Biden administration witch hunt were ...

Guess what? We’re already rich

Judging by the results, the United States should be the last country that wants to reorder the world economy. We’ve thrived in recent decades, while other advanced democracies have fallen behind. If we’ve gotten “ripped off,” as President Trump and supporters of the trade war like to say, the supposed thieves have gained little and the purported victim has continued to march ahead. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t seek to change unfair trade practices and seek more independence from Chinese supply chains. Yet, it’s foolish to disrupt willy-nilly a system that has ...

The best presidents vs. the worst

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a comedy at Ford’s Theatre. After 12 years of a crisis presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 63 when he died of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia, where the waters helped his polio. Political geniuses who loved to laugh, they enjoyed the love of the people. Lincoln had just won the Civil War, and Roosevelt was near winning World War II: monumental achievements. Each saved the broken nation and left it stronger. It’s well to honor their memory but also ...

The greatest event in human history

“Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong,” said Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman authorities would burn him to death. Eyewitnesses reported the local authorities respected Polycarp and begged him to recant his faith in Christ. He would not. The Romans did not even tie Polycarp to a post because they knew he would not flee the fire. Polycarp fed his captors, prayed over them, then climbed the pyre to die. Authorities carted off Polycarp’s friend Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and fed him to wild beasts in the ...