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Don’t pardon Hunter Biden

While all eyes are on Mar-a-Lago and the goons Trump is nominating to besmirch high government offices, there is another potential threat looming to the rule of law, and it comes not from MAGAworld but from the sitting president. I’m referring to the possibility that President Joe Biden might pardon his son Hunter Biden. Ana Navarro, a panelist on “The View,” urged the president to do it, saying, “Joe, since they’re talking smack about you anyways, you know what? Maybe pardon Hunter. Pardon Hunter because we, basically America, just pardoned a criminal who was convicted of ...

AG pick is bottom of the barrel

In just two weeks since being elected to return to the White House, Donald Trump has given those accused of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome ample cause to feel, well, decidedly un-deranged. Regrettably if unsurprisingly, it’s shaping up to be an epic time for “I-told-you-so’s,” as the president-elect’s selections of those who will control the U.S. government triggered not just alarm bells but air raid sirens. Trump’s choice of now former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general of the United States, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, would be a joke were ...

Age of whispered conversations

We live in an age of whispered conversations. There are aspects of American life that everyone, or nearly everyone, knows are absurd but is too afraid to speak out against and feels powerless to reverse. It used to be said that if someone looked over his shoulder, he was about to tell an insensitive joke. Now people are worried about being overheard making what should be commonsensical observations. Below are the kinds of conversations that are happening all the time. The maternity-ward nurse in a low voice: “Where the form says ‘birthing parent,’ that means mother. They ...

Trump serves revenge, dares Senate to defy

“Julius Caesar did not seize power; the Roman Senate ceded power to Caesar.” — Sen. Robert C. Byrd Let that be a lesson to us from the West Virginian’s grave. Donald Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. Yet we missed his meaning: the first day after the election. Right away, we felt the president-elect’s revenge, blowing in on the gales of November. The United States Senate stands in front of those winds, testing the limits of its own power. History rhymes again. Our Constitution spells it out that the Senate has the right (and duty) to approve the president’s ...

Our Social Security system is broke

I pull the following directly from the summary of the 2024 annual reports of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees: “The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund (that is, Social Security) will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2033, unchanged from last year’s report. At that time, the fund’s reserves will become depleted and continuing program income will be sufficient to pay 79 percent of scheduled benefits.” Our Social Security system is broke. Now if you own stock in a company, and you read a report that the prospects ...

Dear Democrats, it’s going to be OK

It is going to be OK. It really will. You’ll have the midterms in two years. There’ll be another presidential election in four years. Those of you reading this insisting there will be no more elections are no better than the idiots on my side who think 2020 was stolen and that if Kamala Harris had won, there would be no more elections. In 2004, you guys were pretty stunned by George W. Bush’s reelection. Within two years, you had Congress. In two more years, you had everything. And, again, many of you believed after 2004 that it was the end of all things. It was not. Now, ...