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I am not — nor ever have been — a member in good standing of the Kim Jong-un Fan Club. In fact, I am pretty sure the teacup child despot inherited his father’s seat in the Axis of Evil. I think it would be really great if everyone in the Axis of Evil were destroyed, though I do not have much faith in American politicians anymore to stick with any such plan long enough to accomplish such a monumental task.

Call it the mysterious case of the Incredible Shrinking GOP. Barely one month ago, the party sailed to victory in one of the biggest rout election waves of the past century. They ran the board and took control of the

Move over, Charlie Brown. Looks like it’s going to be a Michael Brown Christmas this year. The smell of roasted chestnuts and sounds of holiday cheer around Rockefeller Center were drowned out by angry protesters throwing their hands in the

Best case scenario for holding Michael Brown in some kind of moderate regard is that he and his buddy are walking down the middle of the street when officer Darren Wilson encounters them. Officer Wilson has no idea someone matching

Forget the smarmy political desperation of it. Forget the Third World despotic nature of it. Forget even the cynical, Machiavellian deceitfulness of it. Let’s just consider how President Obama threatens to slash to ribbons the very fabric of the world’s

In his immigration lecture Thursday night, President Obama revealed himself as a man politically broken, isolated from any sense of normal reality and completely unspooled from logic. The man who once unified this country with elegant, daring and powerful speeches

Dear President Obama: You are now staring into the exhausting, lonely abyss that is your final two years of a job you desperately wanted yet clearly never liked. Negotiation and compromise are impossible for arrogant men who are always sure

Votes haven’t even begun to be counted yet and already the media is denouncing this election as meaningless. “Where’s the beef in this year’s election?” asks one columnist, lamenting the success of Iowa Republican Joni Ernst’s hilarious campaign ad in

If pollsters are to be believed, Democrats nationwide do not have much to look forward to in next week’s elections. There is, however, a silver lining that stands to benefit the party and liberal-leaning voters everywhere in ways that far

President Obama is about as popular on the campaign trail these days as the Ebola virus. Democrats flee from him. At the mere mention of his name, they betray him. Facing dejected and angry voters, Democrats play dumb and pretend

Where is the GOP’s John Wayne when you need him? Not, apparently, in Texas. When Ebola-infected Thomas Duncan landed in Dallas, he instantly became a deadly international health threat to U.S. citizens and America’s frontline health workers. The Liberian national

Snap on those rubber gloves, zip up your hazmat suits, and tape up those galoshes. Get ready for the Ebola election! The White House is in full scurry before next month’s vote, trying to feverishly scrub the taint of Ebola

It is good to see President Obama and his political machine finally wake up, sound the alarm and spring into action against the ongoing global humanitarian crisis that is Ebola. Only now that it has reached America’s shores, threatens to

Now, in this hopeful Spring of post-partisan, post-racial and post-violent times, the world must come together to celebrate all this truth, justice, freedom and progress with a whole new slate of Nobel Prizes. But these won’t be just any Nobel

The world’s supply of experimental Ebola drug runs dry just as U.S. troops are deployed to West Africa by a commander-in-chief who has never appeared to have much use for the military as an actual military force. He has deployed

You think Ebola is scary now, just wait until Doctor Obama gets through with it. Declaring the deadly viral epidemic a national security threat, the president who invented Obamacare is dispatching our military to West Africa. Into the jungled Hot

See, kids, this is why you don’t do drugs. And this is why you will always eventually regret voting for somebody who boasted of all the coke and dope he did while smoldering about his absentee father. President Choom Gang

How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. This is why people aspiring to be politicians go to law school. Not only does it teach them to lie real good, it also allows the rest

Defending yet another police shooting of an American citizen, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson last week casually made a stunning admission — one that fell largely on deaf ears among the twisted media, race pimps and merchants of racial

You have a nasty thug boosting Swisher Sweets from the corner store and roughing up the merchant. Then, like flies to a barnyard, you have swarms of race pimps breathlessly buzzing to the scene to further fuel the rage and

The rank spectacle of ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suddenly turning on her commander in chief and former boss to shiv him in the back over the burning ruins she helped make of the Middle East is staggering to

The world is down on America these days. Allies like Israel are sick and tired of our whirlybird foreign policies. There are even haters inside America who have lost the faith. America’s best days are behind her, they say. The

All this talk of impeaching the president is the stupidest Republican political strategy so far this century. Sure, anybody can make a strong argument that President Obama is one of the worst presidents in modern history. All the hope and

Anyone who wants a glimpse of America’s Third World future can just take a gander at Detroit. Things have gotten so bad that Detroit residents are fighting over the only thing more urgently necessary than food and weapons when nature

Politicians here have not even figured out how yet to implement their new law requiring us to pay for everybody else’s health care, and already people are clamoring to legalize drugs that are, at the very least, hazardous to their

Whatever happened to the Obama administration’s guiding principle never to let a serious crisis go to waste? Ex-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel pronounced this shockingly brazen political principle before a group of Wall Street executives in November 2008.

Summer is hot upon us, another Supreme Court term is ending, and now it is time to evaluate America’s most tutored — and tortured — constitutional law student. It is unusual for a pupil of the Constitution to have such

So this is what the promise of amnesty looks like. “Death trains” rumbling through Mexico teeming with children, headed for the U.S. border. Teenage girls raped. Unspeakable violence at the hands of ruthless coyotes, carrying out President Obama’s stunningly reckless

It is a false choice only politicians could come up with. Either you support granting amnesty to 12 million lawbreakers who are now in the U.S. illegally, or you are a racist whose political future is doomed by the coming

For those who generally prefer the company of trees over the company of people, Muir Woods is a transportive place to visit. If you get here right at sunrise, you will have the 500 acres pretty much to yourself, except

It is truly a fool’s errand for any decent person of conscience governed by honesty to engage in debate with the likes of these people. Never has that folly been more acute than in the aftermath of the President’s release

It’s been 10 years since “Rawhide” died. Ten years today, June 5, 2014. Ronald Reagan–code named “Rawhide” by his Secret Service detail–was 93 and had sunken deep into the dementia of Alzheimer’s. To honor President Reagan–and out of respect to

According to my copy of The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama is deeply disturbed by “income inequality,” access to health care for poor people and having U.S. troops on aimless missions abroad. If only he could be in charge, he

When the founders included the “Speech or Debate” clause in the U.S. Constitution, they wanted to protect members of Congress from the whims of any outside tyrant who might abuse the power of his office to harass, control or destroy

It has forever been perfectly fair game in prudent political discourse to demand that politicians seeking higher office reveal information about their physical fitness. Everyone remembers when Democrats and the press tried making an issue out of Ronald Reagan’s advanced

Granted, he lacks the warmth of Darth Vader or the charm of Jabba the Hutt. But Mitch McConnell, I have always thought, was a principled force for good in an evil, evil place. Which is why it is so shocking