Is Rep. Omar the Problem or a Reflection?
With visions of AR-15 tracer fire dancing in her head, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the GOP House majority voted Rep. Ilhan Omar off of a committee. Some would call Omar the epitome of the American...
View ArticleHoly Orson Welles, Batman!
The average range of a rifle shot is about ten thousand feet. The Chinese balloon that flew over the United States for three days was at an average altitude of 66,000 feet. Yet still, Rep. Marjorie...
View ArticleOwning the Republicans
From the moment Senator Mike Lee realized he was caught on camera when President Biden brought up the GOP plans to gut Medicare and Social Security, Mr. Biden had laid the blueprint for how Libs can...
View ArticleSpeaking in Black and White
With all the talk of Critical Race Theory, wokeness, cancel culture, and Black Lives Matter, black and white Americans are speaking a different language. Regarding CRT, blacks— and white...
View ArticleLift Every Voice and Whine || Commentary
As a native and forever loyal Washingtonian, let me first congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs on their Superbowl victory. Living in Philadelphia for the past 17 years, going through car horns blaring...
View ArticleFor the Love of Guns—How Many More?
Strange phenomena surround the gun issue. Aside from America having more guns than people and, consequently, more gun violence than any other industrial country on Earth, gun enthusiasts (speaking of...
View ArticleObama Tried to Put on the Brakes
Safety measures are hard to quantify. Had the stoplight been on the corner sooner, would the last accident have happened? Accidents will happen, but neglect and money over safety can exacerbate the...
View Article“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job….”
Donald Trump said of Frederick Douglass at the outset of Black History Month in February of 2017, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more...
View ArticleLet me say this…
Comic Bill Burr, who is white, has a routine about his uncomfortable moments when you know the white guy nursing his drink at the end of the bar is about to use the N-word[NSFW]. Barr is younger than...
View ArticleYellow Journalism || Commentary
Not too many years ago, the mainstream press came to the aid of Fox News. In 2010, former president Barack Obama said to Rolling Stone of Fox News, “It’s a point of view,”Obama said, “that I think is...
View Article‘Make America Dilbert Again?’
Like most things that involve race in America, logic, nuance, and meaning are hostage to grandstanding. The creator of the comic Dilbert, Scott Adams, fully displayed his faux intellectualism shrouded...
View ArticleWho to Blame?
While President Biden tried his best Harry Truman impression, the buck should not stop on his desk. When the country fell into the grasp of inflation and Fortune 500 companies admitted—out loud—they...
View ArticleJim Jordan and the Lessons Learned from Bill Barr and the Mueller Report
When former Attorney General Bill Barr preempted the findings of the Mueller investigation into the links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, Democrats were caught flat-footed. Even...
View ArticleOpinion | So Much for D.C. Statehood
I am a native Washingtonian. I was born and raised there and am a product of the Washington, D.C., public school system. My first job (at 15) was moving clothing racks to an overnight storage facility...
View ArticleFor the Money or the Evil
There is a phrase true pro wrestling fans are familiar with “being a mark.” A mark is someone emotionally vested in their favorite wrestler’s every action. I have mentioned, or some might say,...
View ArticleNot Ready for Prime Time
The entertainment arm of the Republican party is not ready for prime time. Witnessing the shenanigans of Jim Jordan admonish potential witnesses for being out of compliance with a subpoena from the...
View ArticleAbout Last Night...
I am generally not a fan of self-congratulatory affairs like the Oscars, Emmy(s), etc. I saw the famed slap last year and Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, who took us to La La Land instead of basking in...
View ArticleDon't Take any Wooden Nickels
According to some sources, the term ‘ don’t take any wooden nickels ’ dates back to the 1900s when metal coinage became a standardized American currency. Now that evidence is surfacing of bank...
View ArticlePick a Side
‘We in the Congress have been urging the president, I’ve been, to provide arms to Ukraine. They want to fight their good fight. They’re not asking us to fight it for them,’said a member of Congress...
View ArticleJust a Little Sin | Commentary
For most of my early years of basement Sunday school, I was told sin is sin before graduating to the adult section in the first-floor glow of stained glass windows. In contrast, there are degrees of...
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