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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 ...

Why a tech titan backed Trump

Why did Marc Andreessen — inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today — switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back President-elect Donald Trump this year? Because, in his view, the Democrats who claim to be the great scourge of “disinformation” are threatening to embed disinformation in the bedrock of society. At least that’s my interpretation of Andreessen’s comments in a wide-ranging interview with The Free Press cofounder Bari Weiss. “My concern is that the censorship and ...

Holiday season feels like a post-election balm

We put up our Christmas tree on Nov. 9 this year. Right after the election. I cannot remember a time when I’ve been more eager for the holiday season. We have holiday favorites playing on Alexa and in the car when we’re driving around town. This holiday season feels like a post-election balm, a well-timed return to everything the season represents and everything we are longing for right now: gratitude, joy and time spent with the people we love. While the world feels harsh and cruel, the holiday pulls us in with its decorations, crafts and gifts. The season offers an opportunity to ...

Don’t write off DOGE

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut $2 trillion and make the government more efficient. It’s a high priority since the United States is barreling toward a fiscal crisis. Yet despite the mounting evidence of unsustainable spending and deficits, lots of people seem to believe that the goals of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are dead on arrival. Why? Because these doubters believe that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are completely off-limits for cuts. This is nonsense. Spending on these three programs represents roughly half of 2025’s $7 trillion ...