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Not completely, but there’s been virtually no public debate or opposition voiced about the United States seeking the death penalty for the now convicted mass murderer in the 2018 Tree of Life massacre.  Public discussion has focused on the imminent penalty phase as...

Recall what you thought in 2015 as Donald Trump rode down the Trump Tower escalator and told us precisely who he was.  We all thought then “never gonna happen”.  Therefore, it’s appropriate now to sound an alarm as another possible disaster rides down the cosmic...

In our rural upstate town, Progressives and MAGAs peer warily at each other across New York Route 66, while hoarding their oat milk and bullets for the great war in 2024.  We see far more danger lurking in the radical middle.  Those truly undecided voters who will...

The trivial question being debated is whether CNN should have given Trump a mainstream platform to do his thing, as it did from 8 pm E.S.T. to a tad after 9 pm last Tuesday night.  To that our answer is “NO,” but mostly because it was too early for CNN’s...

Most commentary about the Dominion/Fox News defamation settlement has been silly and ill-informed.  Especially the legal talking heads about how the law of defamation compelled the settlement and how this settlement will affect future defamation litigation. Now that...

With Turkey’s withdrawal of its dispositive vote to block its application, Finland will today become a member of NATO. “Finlandization” is jargon used by political scientists of its international studies sect to signal they’ve got game and doctorate.  It describes not...