The current news cycle, ladies and gentlemen, continues to shine with more examples of blatant irony. After four years of Democrats and the press corps whining about the NEED for open borders, and what an affront to human dignity that the southern border wall was, and how we need to open our arms and “welcome the stranger,” and that it
In my essay from February 17th, “What To Call Our Era?” I proffered the title: “The Age Of Irony.” In support of that appellation I decided that, from time to time, I would post short examples of same when the opportunity arose. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t have to wait long… Over the past week, few Americans could have
Some readers might recall that the curious phrase used as the title of this essay, “Lying dog faced pony soldier,” was spoken by candidate Joe Biden. It was directed at a young woman that had the temerity to ask him a mildly critical question. It’s true. He really said that. Don’t believe me? Here’s the link to the video: So,
I’m wondering if my readers are as astonished as I am by something getting a lot of play in our nation’s political “conversation.” Again and again and again, in newsprint, on the radio, on the TV and on the internet, we hear reference made to the January Sixth Capitol “insurrection.” By any sane definition of the term, January Sixth was
It sometimes happens that writers and poets can capture the zeitgeist, or spirit, of a particular era in just a word or pithy phrase. Novelist Edith Wharton, for example, called the late Victorian era “the Age Of Innocence.” French writer Charles Peguy spoke of the period from 1871-1914 as “la belle epoch.” The poet W. H Auden called the 20th
Most “breaking news” stories don’t really “break” anything. After the first sentence, the attentive viewer/listener/reader can pretty much predict the whole story, sans a few minor details here and there. Every once in a while, however, comes a “breaking news” story that is truly surprising. I encountered such yesterday. The headline read: “Supreme Court To Consider 2020 Election Challenge Lawsuits
Well, Donald Trump has barely unpacked his bags at Mar-A-Lago and America appears to already be heading straight down the drain, with Democrats leading the charge. As one reader (thanks NG) recently remarked: “they’re moving very quickly.” Indeed they are. And don’t be reassured by all the “working for ALL Americans” boilerplate. It sounds nice, but they DON’T MEAN A
Today begins an ominous new era for America. It begins the tenure of what is, in essence, a one party government. With Democrats in the majority and voting as a unified block and Republicans in the minority and fractious and feckless, Democrats will control all our branches of government. Now, America has had one party governments in the past (the
Wednesday’s breech of the United States Capitol was so unprecedented, so surprising (it caught the entire DC police force off guard) and so uncharacteristic of the vast majority of Trump supporters, that it was hard to believe that it was actually happening. I, and the vast majority of America’s conservatives and Republicans watched in near disbelief as the mob broke
“Democracy Dies In Darkness” has been the slogan of the Washington Post since 2017. And there is no question that the sentiment is true. But, true as it is, it is also the height of irony that it sits just under the banner at the top of the front page of the newspaper that is, arguably, one of the most