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Blame and credit for the outcome of last week’s Presidential election are being copiously assigned, with numerous villains and heroes, human and issue, variously ranked foremost or among the most consequential.  For example, “it was the economy stupid” or “Harris...

Christians frequently speak and write about the “Antichrist.”  They are describing people who are the antithesis of Jesus and what he taught.  But also a separate being who is in opposition and a pretender to their Jewish savior.  Jews, ourselves, don’t have one...

The Harris populist promises are no taxes on tips, $25,000 for first-time home buyers and a federal ban on price-gouging.  Yes, if she is elected, these populist promises will have helped.  But if she wins, no they are not bloody likely to be enacted during her...

Comparisons of Donald Trump to autocrats and dictators, past and present (to say nothing of his friendships and professed love affairs with some) have steadily been made over the last nine years.  With “America’s Hitler” written by J.D. Vance to a friend in 2016...

“This is not who we are as a nation.” Really, and as Big Bird asked his pal “Snuffy, where have you been?”  This is not only precisely who we are but who and what we always have been, as most high school graduates know.  The salient difference this time is not a...

While signing into law the blatantly and comically unconstitutional requirement that the Top Ten Judeo-Christian DOs and DON’Ts be displayed in every Louisiana public school classroom, Governor Jeff Landry said, “If you want to respect the rule of law. . . you’ve got...