Taxes & Interest Killing More Americans than Iran?
Americans are in a “survival debt” mode thanks to inflation & a $1.25T credit-card bill. Meanwhile, our govts keep raising taxes & fees. One new proposal even wants to impose a new national car registration tax. Can anyone spare us a dime?


Soul Food: Week of May 24, 2026
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time...


Trump’s Iranian Strategy Goes to Congress
Any doubt the Islamic Republic will never give up its nuclear ambition, despite news a "peace framework" is near? It’s endless rope-a-dope “deal” strategy after Trump bombed it to hell says so. So, too, it goes with Trump’s ongoing war with Congress. Endless fights over policies & personalities says so...


Hamilton Eats Madison’s Lunch on States’ Rites
Madison said the federal govt’s powers were to be “few & defined” while those reserved to the states were to be “numerous & indefinite.” If that Founding Father was right, would he concede to being wrong as state-run Medicaid fraud & Sanctuary Cities run amok, threaten nation’s future?


Trump Humors Humorless Xi on Taiwan
Lib MSM says China’s Xi “berated” No. 47 over “its” Taiwan & reminded what happened to Thucydides’ Greeks when a “declining” nation waged war vs a “rising” enemy. Fact is Trump & Rubio let Xi twist in the wind like a Nero fiddling as Rome burned...


Worst Insider Traders? Lawyers, CPAs or Pols?
There’s an insider-trading scandal rocking the biggest M&A law firms, but if it’s possible for individual(s) in any one of these legal giants to go rogue, what about the Big 4 accounting firms or SEC regulators let alone pols employing them?


The Real Ted Turner Stood Up To Be Counted
“This Is Your Life” was a popular 50’s tv show that put a face on celebrities’ “real” personality & history. It was oft heart-wrenching as well as revealing. In that spirit, here’s a memory of the oft-misunderstood Ted Turner based on an interview with me in 1985 …


Trump Brays, Indiana Senate Listens to Voters
As Trump does victory lap for primary wins in Indiana that ousted GOP reps who voted against a new gerrymandered voting map, Dems mock him for ignoring state still has a 7-2 rep split between the 2 parties. What Indiana really showed was Democracy can still work...


Justice Jackson, James Carville & Machiavelli
Did Justice Jackson’s “utterly irresponsible” solo dissent in that VRA decision barring race-based gerrymandering unintentionally expose the Democrats’ conspiracy to rig the mid-terms, then, stack the Court in its favor? Short answer: Yes, sort of...


Clarence the Magnificent’s Resolve & Revenge
Reviled by many black & white Dems when nominated for US Sup Ct at 43, 77-yr-old Justice Clarence Thomas is now its 2d longest serving member … brilliantly & long enough to remake American law with his originalist view of the Constitution...




















