The White House has been walking into a coronavirus trap. By pooh-poohing worries about the virus and saying everything is under control, it is setting itself up for the charge, if things […]
Lowry: Straight talk on coronavirus
Are we reliving 1972’s drama?
A sort of a case of déjà voodoo. It happened in the midst of a contentious and divisive presidential campaign. The incumbent president is involved in activities that will raise the specter […]
The boom in bashing Bloomberg
In Las Vegas, Mike Bloomberg’s half-billion-dollar crapshoot was revealed as a load of, well, you know. Half a BILLION dollars! That’s what he will have spent before Super Tuesday, when he is […]
AG William Barr is his own man
Can the republic survive Attorney General William Barr? That’s the question that has seized the media and center left, which have worked themselves into a full-blown panic over an attorney general who […]
Judicial friction is a really low Barr
President Donald Trump is right that he does “have, as president, the legal right” to meddle in Department of Justice decisions. However, when he makes public comments, or when it can be […]
Is Mike last man standing before Bernie?
The rich are different from you and me — they can buy themselves instant presidential campaigns. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has elbowed himself into the Democratic nomination race solely on […]
Retorts: Getting your “greens” is healthy
Editor’s note: This is in response to some online criticism of a planned tree-lined bikeway and pedestrian path in Garden Grove Dogs may be man’s best friend, but right up here in […]
“Breaking News” helps break the nation
I’ve ranted about the expression “Breaking News!” before. But like any issue I confront, it only gets worse. So it is with this one. Nowadays, all the networks, without exception, open each […]
Finally, 2016 comes to a conclusion
And so 2016 finally draws to a close. It’s been the longest election year in American history. It ran from Feb. 1, 2016, the date of the Iowa caucuses, to the Senate […]
This just in: some things are improving
In this era of exotic viruses from China, deep political divisions, out-of-control fires and eyebrow-rising Super Bowl halftime shows, it might look like our world is going to Heck in a shopping […]
