Breaking News

Uncategorized

We the People will prevail

The holidays provide an apt time to pause and assess where we are. You have every reason to be worried about what happens after Jan. 20. Many people could be harmed. Yet I continue to have an abiding faith in the common sense and good- heartedness of most Americans, despite the outcome of the election. Many traditional Democratic voters did not vote — either because they were upset about the Biden administration’s support for Benjamin Netanyahu or they were unmoved by Kamala Harris. Others chose Trump because their incomes have gone nowhere for years and they thought the ...

The decline of the Wall Street Journal

Many American institutions have beclowned themselves in the past 10 years — too many to list. To count the right-leaning institutions that have not succumbed to Trumpian populism takes only one hand. But the decline of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page has been particularly galling because, compared to the Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College or the Claremont Institute, it had farther to fall. In the pre-Trump era, the paper had some integrity. While the board was broadly aligned with the Republican Party, its editorials didn’t hesitate to differ with Republicans on ...

Kash as king: A hatchet man comes to town

It’s in vogue since Donald Trump’s election last month to suggest that using words like “autocrat” or “strongman,” let alone “fascist,” to describe the once and future president is bad form at best and terribly out of line at worst. The problem with this suggestion is what the president says and what he does; other than that, there’s no particular cause for alarm. “I am your retribution,” Trump has vowed to audiences cheering for anyone to be locked up other than Trump, whose conviction on 34 state felony counts stands even as indictments on a series of federal ...

Trump’s fear factor

If they have any instinct for self-preservation, Iran and Hamas should be monitoring President-Elect Donald Trump’s communications closely these days. A couple of weeks ago, there was the Truth Social post promising “ALL HELL TO PAY” if Hamas didn’t release its hostages by Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. “Those responsible,” Trump noted, “will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.” He followed up during a press conference Monday. When asked what he meant by his prior threat, Trump left it ...

The Post Office: A wonderful establishment

There’s one thing Donald Trump can’t take away from me. I’m ready for living in a reality where a knock on the door could take you and your rights away. I’m prepared for violent Jan. 6 offenders in prison to be pardoned on Trump’s first day. I’m even braced for freedom of speech — and the press — to ebb toward being things of the past. Vive la resistance, right? Good luck to us. All that America stands for, as a just and noble light to the world, is on the carving table like red meat. My friends and I fear dark ages descending, with a ruler unrestrained by neither ...

Let this Christmas be a day of togetherness

During the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco — to visit some animals that were gathered there. This was the Tenderloin District, which attracted drug dealers, drug users and a sad number of homeless people. Our destination was St. Boniface Catholic Church. St. Boniface was established as a parish in 1860, according to the San Francisco Examiner, and its present structure was completed in 1908, after its predecessor was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire. It ...