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Hawthorne, California

The Good, the Bad, the Undocumented

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants -- 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump's removal of Venezuelan ...

The FDA Can Save Lives by Keeping Copycat Drugs Off the Market

For decades, the United States has led the world in pharmaceutical innovation -- developing drugs that combat cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes and other killer diseases. One ...

Home, Homeland on Deranged

I’m gonna start this week’s column with a very disturbing piece of video. In 1985 two dumbasses in Reno, 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Ray Belknap, got drunk and ...

Pope Francis in Jerusalem with Jordan's Prince Ghazi

Love Thy Neighbor, Not Thy Invader

As I write these words, the Pope lies gravely ill in hospital, even less capable of breathing than George Floyd once was, and probably every bit as doped up. Perhaps Pope Francis ...

Eliot House, Cambridge, Mass.

Soak the Rich, Tax University Endowments

Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy. House Ways and Means ...

Biden Didn’t Pardon. He Erased the Law

A snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend -- sorry, an unusually snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend -- suggested that Trump is using his pardon ...

Of Course Elon’s a Nazi

Friday, November 1st, 2024. I’m at home going through my nightly routine (trying but failing to muster the courage to pull the trigger) when I suddenly start to get dozens of ...

Elon Musk’s Suggestion Box

I'm getting a little impatient waiting for Elon Musk to get to the two behemoths of government waste, fraud and abuse, so I'm dropping these in the suggestion box: Please hurry up ...

For Whom the Zelle Tolls

One of the more baffling lawsuits in the final days of the Biden administration was the complaint against Zelle, the popular money transfer network. The Consumer Finance ...

Imps in Charge!

In the 1992 “Mr. Belvedere” SNL sketch, Tom Hanks plays the president of a fan club for the guy who played Mr. Belvedere on the sitcom. And the gag is that the “fans” are ...

Three for the Road (to Hell)

Last week’s column was written during my recent health scare; this week’s is being written as I’m recuperating, sober, and thus in a terrible mood. So to make it easier on ...

What’s On Your Plate?

I tried meat grown in a lab. It tastes like ... well ... meat. I guess it is meat, but it's not grown the normal way. Scientists extract meat cells from an animal and then grow ...

Hillary Clinton

Musk’s Attack on Waste, Fraud and Abuse Threatens Status Quo

Desperate to protect government employees who are paid upward of $100,000 a year to surf porn all day (or do something even more disgusting, like funnel money to USAID), Democrats ...

Get Ready for America’s ‘Little Tech’ Revolution

The spectacular dominance of America's Magnificent Seven tech firms -- with $1 trillion-plus market caps -- has been a marvel to behold and a genuine source of American pride. ...

Times Square, New York

If You Really Support Immigration, Stop Excusing Chaos

Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants being expelled by the Trump ...

If it Please the Court, Who the Hell Asked You?

Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes ...

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