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Last week I had dinner with a few old friends at one of the score of Manhattan’s wonderful Greek restaurants.  This one, in the Flatiron district of the real World Island.  There, and at all of them, the freshest fish is displayed on hills of ice, then cooked or cured...

SCOTUS justices have seemed unfazed, indeed, contemptuous, of the American public’s plummeting respect for them and the high court.  That defiant disregard is most apparent with Justices Thomas and Alito, though occasionally acknowledged by Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch...

The mandated, but fully embraced, preface is that attempts at violence, like Cole Tomas Allen’s last Saturday night, have no place in our democracy and are antithetical to liberalism and traditional American values.  But what is not only American but pervasively and...

Irony of ironies, all is irony was theme and motto of the peace THING held in Islamabad Pakistan last weekend.  The THING (given its brevity and other attributes discussed below we decline to call it a conference) came about after Trump cut and ran over the price of...

As a boomer whose early years were filled with WWII imagery and consequences, including tearful send offs of older cousins from Fort Dix to Korea and whose first ballot was cast at the peak of the colliding anti(Vietnam)war/civil rights/sexual revolution movements -...

Last week the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee sent Trump’s nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to become Secretary of Homeland Security to the full Senate, replacing Kristi Noem (the heroine of HL 203 “Kristi Noem Won’t Save the Poor Little Girls, Trump Might...