Author: CBD

President Trump has many character traits that seem, at first glance, to be wonderful openings for his political opponents to make substantive inroads on his popularity with the 20% of the voters who are not firmly in one camp, and perhaps decrease the enthusiasm with which his base supports him. Here is a partial list,…

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” And people like any idiot who puts this app on his phone has signaled that he can’t be bothered with antiquated notions of liberty and freedom, or a healthy suspicion of, and distaste for government power. Mizzou students…

I am under no illusions that the current peace plan, version 45A-2, will be any more successful than the previous ones, but it does serve to illuminate a few of the intractable problems in Arab society. Accepting the blatant dishonesty and unbelievable crookedness and corruption of its leaders is a fundamental flaw in their culture,…

It has also exposed what so many of us have suspected for many years; our federal legislature is a fundamentally unserious body. It is filled with vain, arrogant, profoundly unintelligent and incurious apparatchiks whose only foci is the pursuit of the front-and-center position in front of the media’s microphones or cameras, followed closely by the…