China
I am in a minority. No, not that. 😁 I am in the minority of Americans who do not use TikTok, the controversial Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Los Angeles-based TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is based in China, and the accusation against TikTok (aside from its addictive properties) is the China
Military
“Duty, Honor, Country.” That is the motto of the United States Military Academy and it is not changing. You may have gotten a different impression from some conservative voices. It is being removed from West Point’s mission statement, a statement that is changed periodically, according to the Associated Press.
Cherelle Parker
By tradition, the legacy media waits 100 days to assess the performance of a new president, governor, or mayor. I’ll jump the gun with my assessment of Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker who is (say it all together now) the city’s 100th mayor and first female mayor and Black
Israel
By Tunku Varadarajan Many Arab politicians in the Middle East and beyond were equivocal in criticizing Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Not Mansour Abbas. “The massacre,” Mr. Abbas said on Nov. 6, “is against everything we believe in, our religion, our Islam, our nationality, our humanity.” He has
Politics
Former special counsel Robert Hur had to be asking himself, “I got a degree in English and American literature from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford, so why am I subjecting myself to questioning from these partisan pinheads?” I was under the weather Tuesday, so I thought I would
Immigration
Folks, I made a mistake. As you may know — because, sadly, there is video evidence — I was too casual in inviting foreigners to come to the United States, And who wouldn’t want to come here, really? During a 2019 debate, I told those seeking asylum to “surge” our border.
Politics
Let’s give Republicans the benefit of the doubt
Politics
President Joe Biden closed his State of the Union address by taking on the elephant in the room — his age. The fact that this came more than an hour into his speech was itself a win, that he got that far with vigor, energy and passion. He acknowledged that he
Politics
I’m not going to use his name, because I am not looking for a Twitter X war, I am looking for honesty and transparency. The host of a Philadelphia radio station Wednesday morning stated as fact “most people aren’t in the stock market.” That statement was used to
Uncategorized
“The Jews didn’t nail Jesus to the cross, but they sold the Romans the wood.” That’s one of the oldest anti-Semitic jokes I know, one that employs two eternal lies about the Jews: That they killed God, and they will do anything for money. Do I have to
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Remember when you were dating, and you got a handshake instead of a kiss? Now imagine you got a handshake instead of $5 million. That’s how some Black San Franciscans are feeling after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued a formal apology for slavery, racism, and discrimination, but
Politics
If I were a Muslim Arab American living in heavily Muslim Dearborn, Mich. — and I am registered Democratic as almost all of them are — I probably would have voted “uncommitted” in Tuesday’s primary. (And 56% of that community did.) It would have been fun as a protest — in the