Laughter may be the best medicine, but it likely won’t heal the headaches endured by worryworts troubled over the state of nature. At a time when climate-change crusaders are struggling to maintain their hold on the public’s concern for the cause, their earnest efforts are getting punked. Indignity is vexing, but at least it beats indifference.
In October 2010, responding to demands from the open-borders lobby that he change immigration law unilaterally, President Barack Obama declared, “I am not king. I can’t do these things just by myself.”
The last time the baseball team from Washington won the World Series, Calvin Coolidge was in the White House.
Cry, yet again, for Argentina. The South American nation — rich in farmland, durable institutions and an educated population — has, for nearly a century, been an economic basket case. With the results of its recent presidential election, that sad tale looks set to continue.
When it comes to the shell game, the best advice is not to play. Elizabeth Warren claims her new "Medicare for All" proposal presents the nation with a winning health care system without raising middle-class taxes. It's a sleight-of-hand plan that would shuffle costs around while worsening them in the process.
It's being characterized variously as "anxiety" (The Washington Post), "handwringing" (The Hill), "a Maalox moment" and "alarm" (The New York Times), and "growing uncertainty" and "a pervasive feeling of unease" (the Associated Press).
"Boo" only startles when its target is caught by surprise. Democrats chose Halloween to spring a preliminary impeachment vote on the nation, but their move was spotted a mile away. Adversaries of President Trump have been loudly proclaiming their intention to expel him from office since the day he was elected. Now that the campaign to unelect him is out in the open, partisan accusers operating in the shadows must step into the light. Judgment cuts both ways.
"Have broomstick, will travel" is not how Hillary Clinton's calling card reads, but it should. The septuagenarian professional politician is swooping over the American landscape in her billowing jackets, threatening to once again lay waste to the presidential election process. Last time around, Republicans were relieved to have survived her reign of error. As All Hallow's Eve draws near, it is her own Democrats who are faced with uncertainty over what her threatened political resurrection might unleash.
The design of the United States government is riddled with checks and balances intended to prevent any one branch from becoming so powerful it could dominate the other two. This, the Founders believed, would safeguard our liberties.
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper," wrote T.S. Eliot in "The Hollow Men." A dark commentary on the despair gripping the European continent following World War I, it fits as a preface to the last moments of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, almost.
Hope paved humanity's lengthy pathway to the 21st century, but fear threatens to take it from here. It shouldn't. Beyond the gloomy headlines, advances in human knowledge are making these supposedly dreadful years actually the most amazing ever.
Having the best of intentions is no protection from the worst of consequences. That's the sobering lesson from the government-run experiment with renewable fuels.
Nearly three years since she lost the 2016 presidential race to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton clearly still hasn't gotten over it and moved on.
Perhaps Ralph Northam should head north of the border when his term as Virginia governor is up. Canadian voters are rather indulgent of leaders who occasionally don blackface, apparently.
In the program for an exhibition of his works at a museum in Stockholm in 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol famously predicted "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." The phrase "15 minutes of fame" has since come to describe anyone or anything that's a short-lived blip on the pop culture or media radar.
