Opinion
Hamas does not give shelter
If there is one thing Hamas is really good at, it’s digging tunnels. Hamas, and like-minded militant factions like Islamic Jihad, have dug more than a thousand tunnels under the Gaza-Egyptian border. (Last March, Egypt said it had closed more than 1,300.) It has ...
Smart Track? We’re not that stupid
What does Smart Track have in common with the Brooklyn Bridge? They both get sold to suckers...
Why would anyone need a gun or an abortion?
A frequent refrain of gun control freaks is “Why does anyone need a gun?” Good question. I’ll get to it in a minute...
Walling them out, or walling us in?
Three Guatemalans waited ’til dusk to make their move. Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, they slipped illicitly into...
Another Koch-funded stealth campaign
Millions of children in our public schools will soon be hearing from the Heartland Institute. It might sound like a nice above-board civic group promoting such salt-of-the-earth virtues as integrity and veracity, but quite the opposite...
Co-ops collapsing
Recently, some 500,000 people around the country suddenly lost their health insurance as 10 of 23 nonprofit health care cooperatives collapsed. Some 80,000 Coloradans were left in the lurch when Colorado HealthOP collapsed. Nearly 40 percent of the people who ...
How dare D.C. demand fair wages from Walmart?
Want to see pure altruism in action? Go to Washington, D.C. — not to the marbled buildings of the federal government, but to the real city, where ordinary folks live...
Mitch’s minimum-wage glitch
Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to share his long-repressed feelings about a traumatic event. “It was,” Mitch confided, grim-faced, “the worst day of my political life...
What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero
Do the Islamist raisins with legs who want to build a 13-story mosque a stone’s throw from the late World Trade Center in New York City have a constitutional right to do so? Is the Pope Catholic? Of course they do. If you think they don’t, what part of the First...
Can sanity finally conquer reefer madness?
Besides being founders of our Republic, what did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have in common? Answer: Hemp...
Using hokey numbers and neon lies to sell TPP
Come one, come all! Step right up and buy your ticket for a ride on the splendiferous, phantasmagoric, supersonic, miraculous, “Trans-Pacific Partnership...
How hedge fund billionaires literally ‘check’ the people’s will
Donnie Trump is for it, Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton...
