Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

Because an ineffectual Congress has ceded its power to the Supreme Court, the abortion battle is over. Worse disasters lie ahead if we...

Not only did Elvis Presley not write his own music, but the guitar he swung provocatively during his performances, he seldom played....

Of the thousand or so Americans who perished last week from Covid-19, Marcus Lamb stands out, for he fought long and loud against the...

Kyle Rittenhouse should pay dearly for taking the lives of two people, but he should not pay alone. All the lying accomplices who made a...

With the current average cost of a funeral standing at between $7,000 and 10,000, Travis Scott is out close to $100,000 for the deaths...

When the smartest man in the room feels compelled to tell you he's the smartest man in the room, perhaps he isn't the smartest man in the...

Nobody can be very surprised at the self-induced nosedive the Democrats took on Tuesday, highlighted but not dominated by the asinine...

Time was when people in charge made rules and other people obeyed them. Or broke them at their own peril. The people who made the rules...

Wait until we start turning in gun owners for illegal weapons. Texas may regret emphasizing the citizen in citizen’s arrest. So you’re...

It is said, and widely believed to be accurate, that in 1968 Richard Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks. He was embroiled in a...

Last week, in support of her governor Ron DeSantis’s stand against mask mandates, a Florida woman said that compelling people to mask up...

Maybe the only prediction we can safely make today about the future of the Afghan people is that we can't safely make a prediction. But...

When the FDA finally does approve the Covid-19 vaccine for children 12 and under, I'll be interested to see how many of these new...

One of my favorite generalities is that we should never speak in generalities. Generally. But here are two anyway: The 74 million people...

When a governor warns his constituents that the Covid vaccine is risky, it's hard to blame the people for acting dumb. Christian County...

Imagine a presidential election in a democratic country where millions of votes are cast and the margin of victory is razor-thin. Imagine...

In the timeless patriarchy, misogyny, racism, bigotry, and sexual abuse get a pass. Abortion rights are the deal-breaker. A few...

When people think of William Carlos Williams—if they think of him at all—they remember this poem from high school. It's a poem that...

The first claim may be permanent; the second appears more and more temporary. Accuse a bigot of bigotry and the first words out of his...

The original Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s actually knew things. The nickname derived from the group's having evolved out of a secret...