After years of focus-grouping, the self-esteem movement has settled on a new mascot.  I think they’ve nailed it.  No one, and I mean no one, has more self-esteem than this handsome guy.

Like other governments, republics don’t fray and weaken by accident.  One of the greatest hazards in politics is to act without understanding the passions and motives by which decadent political classes are driven.

The Justice Department is threatening those states which are trying to make sure that only eligible citizens vote.  Now that fraud has been declared nonexistent, and legal protection against one-sided massive fraud is being abolished as "voter suppression," it doesn't take a prophet to see where things are going.

The Supreme Court’s decision in 2015 has no more settled the dispute about so called gay marriage than its decision in 1973 settled the dispute about abortion.  Both operas continue, and ought to.

"Why don't you call me?"  The young have never communicated with their elders as much as their elders have wished that they would.  Lately, though, the generational schism has widened.  Oldsters who don’t keep up with the electronic fads of the young are excommunicated with a shrug.

“I keep up with my friends through Facebook, Ma."

More and more people want to be paid for their goods and services in cash instead of by checks or credit cards.  Why?  Obviously, to avoid onerous taxes.  Cash can’t easily be traced.