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Doubling down on kindness

Every interaction you have creates a ripple, whether you intend it to or not. The kind of ripple you create is up to you. Mindy Corporon wants it to be one of kindness. How she came to this resolve after a white supremacist opened fire and killed her son and her father in the parking lot of the Kansas Jewish Community Center in April 2014 is why I wanted to talk to her. Corporon’s father and her son were victims of a hate crime. Reat Underwood, Corporon’s 14-year-old son, was at the community center to audition for a singing competition that could win him a scholarship. His ...

Left against our responsible leadership

The left is screaming that President Donald Trump is on some kind of ideological crusade. Some recent headlines: “Trump and Musk’s Purge Isn’t Cost Cutting — It’s a Coup”; “Doge is About Ideology and Mindless Budget Cutting”; “Elon Musk’s Indiscriminate Carnage”; “Dems Must Stand Up Against the Bully in the White House.” It’s like labeling a company CEO ideological because he is driven to keep his company profitable and competitive. One column in The Guardian says Trump is “lacerating the structures of U.S. democracy.” In other words, protecting ...

States green-lighting migrant crime

New York is already getting sued by the Trump administration for prioritizing illegal aliens over the safety of Americans. Get ready for New York City to be slammed with similar suits. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blusters that the legal action is a “worthless, publicity-driven lawsuit” that will “be a total failure.” Hochul insists “New York is not backing not down.” She’s dead wrong about the merits of the lawsuit. It’s a slam dunk. The state and its top Democrats are being sued over the Green Light Law, a brainchild of New York Attorney General Letitia James and ...

Will Supreme Court constrain Trump?

It is well to remind ourselves that today is Presidents Day, not Dictators Day. Of all the things the framers of the Constitution worried about, their biggest worry was that a president would become as powerful as a king. Which is why they created Congress and the judiciary — to check and constrain him. Fast-forward to the first Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when inequalities of income and wealth had become so extreme that the so-called “Robber Barons” of the era (think Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg) controlled the economy, and corruption was rampant. (I say ...

Trump clearly prefers billionaires

Will the MAGA base ever figure out they’ve been played? Farm country provided Trump with some of his most fervent support. Farmers are now being tossed aside by Trump policies, none of which he seems interested in dialing back. A trade war would be disastrous. Farm products are a major U.S. export. Last year, the U.S. exported more than $30 billion in farm products to Mexico, $29 billion to Canada and $25 billion to China. When a country slaps big tariffs on products from another country, that country can be expected to hit back with its own punishing tariffs. Trump’s insults ...

Responding to fraud with alacrity

The credit card statement contained an unfamiliar charge. I called the fraud department which canceled the payment and immediately sent me a new card. If only the federal government responded with similar alacrity. Instead, the reaction from the exposure and rooting out of fraud - mostly from Democrats - has been shouting profanities and demonstrating outside federal government buildings. Some who have ignored the Constitution for years while using federal judges to impose things voters would not tolerate are suddenly appealing to “constitutional order,” demanding Congress not do ...