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How to be grateful despite Trump

How is everybody coping with the decline of America? I’ll tell you how I’m doing in a bit, but first I have a few observations about Thanksgiving. I wish I had a dime for every time I’ve heard someone declare that Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday. I used to say it myself, before I realized that it’s so commonplace. What makes it so special? There’s the indulging, of course. Humans have been celebrating big events — weddings, religious holidays, births — with feasts for more than 10,000 years. Preparing and consuming a festive meal satisfies eternal human needs. ...

Making Gabbard director isn’t smart

The furor about the real risk to American national security posed by President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence has obscured what is the even greater risk, and that’s the one posed by the president-elect himself. It’s somehow all but forgotten that Trump was indicted for intentionally pilfering classified military secrets on his way out of the White House, intentionally secreting them, intentionally retaining them and intentionally deceiving the United States government about the pilfering, the secreting and the retaining. ...

The collapse of the DEI push

DEI is a bad idea whose time came with a vengeance several years ago, but now its continued ascendancy is in doubt. Perhaps the most important event this year outside of the presidential election is the intellectual collapse of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion, which is poisonous hokum that is finally being exposed as such. DEI has been one of the most morally perverse and damaging fads in recent American history. We’ve been spending an estimated $8 billion a year telling Americans in training sessions, workshops and educational material that they are, depending on ...

History’s November broken hearts

The most tragic rhyme in American history falls in November’s time, one century apart. President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863; President John F. Kennedy died in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. These events reach over endless bends in a profound dialogue like the mighty Mississippi River, cutting through North and South. Just coincidence the picture-perfect Yankee president, Jack Kennedy of Massachusetts, was slain on the losing side of the Civil War? Texas was the largest Confederate slave state, known for its violent swagger. Sixty-some years ago, Dallas ...

Trump, kick Canada out of NATO

Incoming US President-elect Donald Trump keeps threatening to dropkick countries like Canada that don’t meet their defense spending obligations as members of the transatlantic weapons lobby known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) out of its protection racket. Please, just do Canadians the honor, already. Members of the alliance, North American and European nations, are supposed to spend 2 percent of their GDP on weapons. Canada only spends a reported 1.37 percent. “Look, if they’re not going to pay, we’re not going to protect,” Trump said at a campaign rally ...

Journo tantrums don’t fix trust

There’s something about Donald Trump winning an election that drives journalists crazy. The National Press Club in the nation’s capital is an epicenter of media arrogance, as anyone could see from its Nov. 21 “Fourth Estate Award Gala,” in which they proclaimed they were honoring the “fearless pursuit of truth.” But as always, the “truth” is expected to lead to “justice,” which in their view is the opposite of Trump winning the presidency again. Trump’s victory demoralized journalists. They felt like 76.8 million Americans completely ignored their years and years ...