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Illegitimacy and Inequality
The New York Times has finally found a reason to be concerned about the rising rate of out-of-wedlock births in America. It’s not traditional Judeo-Christian morality, of course, nor even the...
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The View from Back East
The fortune cookie that accompanied our meal at a P.F. Chang’s franchise somewhere in the endless sprawl of the Philadelphia metropolitan area told us that “A visit to a strange place will bring you...
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Happy Days Aren’t Here Again
Until last Friday we’d been hearing a lot a giddy talk about an economic recovery, but it all seems to have abruptly ended with the release of the latest jobs report. The numbers were so abysmally bad...
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The State of the Union and Other ‘Shockers
A dear old friend has kindly offered us a ticket to a basketball game pitting the third-ranked and undefeated Wichita State University Wheatshockers against a lightly-regarded Loyola of Illinois...
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The News on a Cold and Rainy Day
On a dreary and drizzly Wednesday, with the winds rattling the windows and winter still clinging bitterly to the gray-and-brown landscape, we dipped into the warmth and brightness of the Drudge Report....
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Rumblings in California
The fault lines running through California are becoming active, and we don’t mean that in the seismological sense. For some time we’ve been eagerly anticipating the fissures within the liberal...
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When Book Tours Go Wrong
How nice to see Hillary Clinton on the defensive about her family’s considerable fortune. We’re not the types to begrudge anyone their honestly-earned wealth, no matter how considerable, but Clinton...
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Rooting for the Clinton Slump
Our beloved Wichita Wingnuts lost in frustrating 11th-inning fashion to the Grand Prairie Air Hogs at the old Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Monday, and that convoluted Supreme Court ruling on the...
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The End of Satire
The art of satire, according our well-considered literary theory, should be rendered with a certain subtlety. A burlesque too broad is bound to be vulgar, and it also robs the more sophisticated reader...
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Mom and Inequality
Sunday is Mother’s Day, a yearly chance to reflect on all the bedtime stories dear old Mom told and all the other loving things she did to create America’s appalling levels of income inequality. That’s...
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America, Still in the Top 20 For Freedom
It’s a free country, according to an oft-used expression, but we can’t help noticing that America is not nearly so free as used it be. The good folks at the free-market Cato Institute have corroborated...
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Another Annus Horribilis
Years always seem to end in the dead of winter, when the trees are bare and the skies are gray and the prairie winds blow bitterly cold, and thus far 2015 is proving no exception to that desultory...
View ArticleA Mixed Bag of Policy, Politics, and that Tax Bill
President Donald Trump at long last got a major piece of legislation to sign into law Wednesday, after the Republicans in congress rammed through a massive tax cut bill, but it remains to be seen if it...
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