Barack Obama and Donald Trump are diametrically opposed figures, representing the categorical rejection of the other for his supporters, yet they share significant foreign-policy DNA. They both defined themselves in opposition to […]
Vladimir Putin is not a Facebook friend of mine – that I know of, anyway. He could be, perhaps registered under an alias put out by the Moscow Troll Department, but to […]
If we had a dollar for every click …. We’d just like to point out that as of last week, The Orange County Tribune’s website – http://www.orangcountytribune.com – has attracted over a […]
In his “Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln described a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” The problem for any democracy is that those people can make a mistake – […]
Lining one wall of my home office, from floor to ceiling, is a collection of many of my best friends. No, it’s not photographic mementos from my past; it’s the hundreds […]
Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate. […]
Latin is supposedly a “dead language,” meaning no one speaks it as their native tongue. Except attorneys, of course, who use it to make law indecipherable so that they can charge exorbitant […]
It could be looking a lot like Christmas in Garden Grove’s downtown. At least in a couple of months. We are told that last year’s temporary decorative lighting along a one-block stretch […]
Let’s take a break from our society’s normal crudefest for a brief moment to honor civility. Cokie Roberts epitomized civility. She was no pushover – far from it. When it was required, […]
At least Bernie Sanders is an equal opportunity misanthrope. He doesn’t like rich people, and it turns out he doesn’t necessarily like poor people, either. At the recent CNN town hall on […]
