By Wayne Allensworth The vibe of this presidential election is different. Something’s in the air, the almost tangible sensation of a seismic political shift. This election does not fit the pattern that the usual suspects expect or anticipate. The political realignment that began with 2016 is playing out with the neocons returning to the leftist fold from whence they came, with many of the most...
By Wayne Allensworth America is quickly shifting from being a high trust society with lots of “social capital” to a condition much more common around the world, one in which ordinary people don’t trust institutions, don’t trust the government, and increasingly don’t trust one another. Professor Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, reluctantly concluded that some time ago. In an atomized, hyper...
By R. Cort Kirkwood It’s bad enough that Vice President Kamala Harris, trying to look presidential, announced that the federal government would give victims of Hurricane Helena a whole $750. But adding insult to injury is what every citizen of Ukraine has received in federal aid since 2022: almost $5,000, nearly six times what the needy Americans who have lost everything will receive. And...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Pro-Harris moderators of the CBS vice-presidential debate didn’t just blow one fact-check on immigration. They flubbed another on the question of whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was President Joe Biden’s “border czar.” U.S. Senator J.D. Vance said she was. CBS said she wasn’t. And CBS published that false claim despite its own reporting when Biden...
By Wayne Allensworth GOP U.S. Senator J.D. Vance lived up to this supporter’s expectations in dominating the stage during last night’s vice-presidential debate with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Vance was self-assured, confident, knowledgeable, yet gentlemanly in his performance. He did not allow the biased “moderators” to spin the show against him, and the hapless Walz ended up looking as though...
By Wayne Allensworth Students of history know that political assassinations are nothing new, that powerful political elites ruthlessly dispatch opponents. Thus do the two assassination attempts against former president Donald Trump occasion a look back at Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s removal of a singularly troublesome opponent. On December 1, 1934, Leonid Nikolayev assassinated Communist Party...
By R. Cort Kirkwood The Democratic delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands unbosomed herself yesterday of downright frightening remarks about the FBI and Justice Department’s putative mission. Their job, Stacey Plaskett thinks, is to shut down white conservative political opposition to Democratic tyranny and stop “would-be dictator Donald Trump” from becoming president. Something of an irony about...
By Wayne Allensworth Bill and Shirley Allensworth Houston, Texas 1953 I recall the time and circumstances in which I knew once and for all I couldn’t go home again. It was 1992. We were back in Houston for Christmas. My wife and I took walks in the morning and passed still remaining landmarks that had taken on the air of museum exhibits. Or ruins. The post office. The old grocery store, now a...
by Wayne Allensworth For some time, we have been reading about the United States and the United Kingdom’s possibly permitting Ukraine to use American and British long-range missiles against targets not only in the warzone, but also deep in Russian territory. The weapons mentioned most often are British Storm Shadow (France also uses a variant of this system called SCALP) and American ATACMS...
By R. Cort Kirkwood The federal criminal complaint against Ryan Wesley Routh, who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Sunday, offered more details about Routh’s failed attempt. Notably, Routh landed at the golf course two hours after midnight Saturday and waited for his chance to murder Trump, the complaint alleges. The complaint also offers more details about Routh’s weapon and...
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