Politics and its Discontents

Those who read this blog with any regularity would most likely describe me as an inveterate cynic. Indeed, it has become my default position...

Their voices , I hope, are growing too loud to be ignored any longer:

No matter how bleak and pessimistic I may sometimes feel about my species, something always comes along to lighten my heart: May they ...

I'll put my money on student passion.

The NRA's Dana Loesch? Or Parkland student Delaney Tarr? You decide.

As a reasonably rational individual, I no longer look upon the ongoing cascade of gun massacres in the United States with either horror or s...

Like millions of people around the world, I have been deeply impressed and moved by the passionate conviction with which young people, spe...

I'll let the oleaginous Republican Senator Ted Cruz stand in for the rest of his ilk: NEW VIDEO: “Ted Cruz’s Top 10 Tips on Being a Ho...

This weekend we celebrate with family and friends our Canadian Thanksgiving. As is the custom, we reflect upon the things for which we ar...

A little something to disturb your Father's Day celebrations: In the wake of the massacre at Pulse night club in Orlando, National Rif...

Guess it depends on what you have to say : A journalism professor at the University of Kansas was placed on indefinite administrative le...

I'm sure this makes sense to many Americans:

Such unctuous and pious hypocrisy I have rarely seen or heard: BTW, what law were the protesters ...

Think how much worse things could be if guns killed people. But as we all know, thanks to the reassurance offered by the NRA , guns don'...