The U.S. has a long history of avoiding European entanglements and letting others fight our battles — What a difference a day makes. Over recent weeks, a dozen or so European nations along with the United States have waffled over sending modern tanks to aid Ukraine in their valiant struggle against Russian invaders. They really need to make up their minds. Up to this point, Ukraine’s army…

Congressman Rick Allen gets my “One Egg Short of a Blue Plate Special” award for his solution to the future of Social Security — I promised myself not to write about George Santos and his latest lies for at least the next week and a half or so because he’s such an easy target for satire. It’s kind of a 12-step program I’ve developed for myself to find other examples of how the Republican…

Their antics might have ended differently in the good old days Republicans long for — The Republican battle over who would lead the U.S. House of Representatives has faded from the front pages. But an almost overlooked episode during the 14th vote for speaker took 2023's now growing reputation for political stupidity from the ridiculous to the sublime. One of the first rules in politics…

But the perpetrators benefited by the tens of millions — Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp., both Trump organization subsidiaries, are being fined $1.6 million for running a tax fraud scheme that bilked the United States of untold millions. One conspirator alone, who benefited from this so-called “indirect employee compensation,” got as much as $1.76 million off the books, including…

Maybe, but newly elected member Max Frost has to get an apartment first — It’s almost mid-January, and the only things the 118th Congress has done so far are to fight over who is going to wield the gavel, babble on about the need for pro-life legislation, and threaten to block raising the debt ceiling to force the government to shut-down. Kind of a…

There’s just one minor detail I forgot — I’m too old. If there is a master villain for the first part of the 21st century, it has to be Russia’s, Vladimir Putin. This guy makes Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao Tse-Tung look like amateur evil-doers from a comic book. As I’ve followed Putin’s insane desire to build his legacy…

It could spell the demise of the GOP — It’s time I made a confession. I’m happy that the election of a new Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives is ending up resembling an episode of the Three Stooges. …

Prisoners, thugs, ultras, and violent soccer hooligans recruited for the Russian army’s famed Vostok Division — In case you thought the fighting in Ukraine was cooling off in the cold winter, Putin has come up with a whole new way to heat things up. Realizing that soccer matches across the world have become violent battlegrounds with gangs of soccer clowns pouring onto the field in hand-to-hand…

I can buy a gun in Florida easier than I can buy cold medicine in New York — It’s flu season here in New York, and I was surprised when between my sniffles, I found I had to show my state-issued ID to purchase a pack of cold medicine. …