Bidenomics vs. MAGAnomics: Two Tastes of the Same Old SHIT

The new political dividing line in America’s never-ending culture wars will be economic: Bidenomics versus MAGAnomics. Apparently, Bidenomics will make the average American ...

Israel and Gaza - Iron dome rockets

The Present Tragedy

GSTAAD—My last days in good old Helvetia before heading for sunny London and grubby old New York. And they are beautiful days and crispy nights here while the bells are ringing. ...

Rocky Mountains

If Biden Really Wants to Help Israel, He Must Stop the War on American Energy Now

President Joe Biden solemnly declared today that he stands with Israel against the terrorists. Great. But his actions in the White House have facilitated these homicidal attacks ...

It Wasn’t a Mistake. It was Social Justice

I was innocently reading my New York Times last week when I was startled by this ghastly headline: "Judge Let Abusive Parents Keep Daughter. Days Later, She Was Dead." As we ...

Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills

Sleuth and Consequences

Regular readers know how much I detest rightist “sleuths.” As I wrote in 2020 (in a column Tucker Carlson got in trouble for sharing), “sleuthing” is the opposite of ...

It’s Not About Fentanyl

The good news is, Republicans are finally willing to criticize immigration! The bad news is, it's only to say they are against Americans dying from fentanyl. So proud of you, ...

Shut It Down!

This week Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There's so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet departments, for example, ...

Washington’s Credit Card Price Controls Will Hurt Consumers

Why has Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) declared war on credit cards? Americans are in love with paying with plastic. Perhaps too much so -- given that credit card debt now exceeds $1 ...

Rise of the Self-Tarded

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman voice: “I have failed.” I have failed to beat sense into the Gomer Pyles of MAGA regarding Beverly Hills. I’ve shown election data. I’ve shown ...

di Amin Dada Oumee caricature 1977

Black Market Traders

Half a century ago, in 1972, mad black African cannibal dictator Idi Amin Dada (or “Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas,” as he preferred) suddenly ...

Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley: Throw Out the Baby — Keep the Bathwater!

You'd think the one thing Republicans would have learned from the 2016 Trump campaign is that voters wanted something completely different from what the GOP had been ...

Karen Bass

GOP Jonahs Swallowed by Giant Bass

The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous ...

My Party: The Stupid Party!

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is being pressured by idiots like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert to impeach Biden for his son Hunter's sleazy foreign dealings -- and ...

Soda Tax

Want a soda? You'll pay more for one in Philadelphia, because five years ago, local politicians decided to tax it. They're "protecting" people, they said. The tax would "reduce ...

Juarez, Mexico

Break the Law Again, You’ll Get Two Desserts!

Days after Mayor Eric Adams said the migrant crisis was going to "destroy" New York City, we memorialized the last time immigrants tried to destroy it: the 9/11 attack. At least ...

Beverly Hills, CA.

Meet the Foggers

This’ll be the final entry in my “Fog Trilogy”; totally different topic next week, I promise! Last week’s column was about how/why rightists “fog themselves.” This ...


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