As most of the nation celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most miraculous accomplishments of our age, landing on the moon, there are some who can take no joy. So what if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did what no human beings ever did before and, by doing so, fulfilled JFK’s challenge to a nation to be as great as it could be? First, the New York Times had to take its shot.…

Ed. Note: Greg Prickett is former police officer and supervisor who went to law school, hung out a shingle, and now practices criminal defense and family law in Fort Worth, Texas. While he was a police officer, he was a police firearms instructor, and routinely taught armed tactics to other officers. In Texas, the state legislature meets every two years for 140 days. It would probably be better if it met every 140 years for…

She held the official titles of president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “held” being the operative word. Leana Wen was unceremoniously ousted from her post. According to what you read, it was the direct consequence of her refusal to use gender neutral language to describe the users of women’s health care services or her efforts to cast the mission of Planned Parenthood as more than just a hated abortion provider.…

The presumption of innocence died this week in America when the unduly passionate masses collectively agreed that while some people might have been wrongfully accused of crimes they didn’t commit, That Rat Bastard is Totally Guilty. Though the familial relationship is not explicitly known, the presumption is preceded in death by the Third, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Known surviving relatives are the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments,…

The efforts to argue “in fairness” to Trump fall, as they should, on deaf ears. His “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” would have been the end of any other presidency in memory, but Trump’s strategy, assuming it was more than accidental, was to make himself so repugnant that nothing would be stark and awful enough to take him down. His supporters’ efforts, taken from…

When Stephanie West Allen sent over a news item about the Berkeley City Council, I had no idea what to expect. Something about giving sanctuary to immigrants? Maybe caring for the homeless, whether by housing or feeding them, or even providing someplace to defecate that didn’t require the unhoused to step over used needles? Nope. Steph took me by surprise. Berkeley City Council votes to rename “manholes” to gender neutral “maintenanceholes” to reflect “awareness of…