Columns

Anger trumps comedy in America

You can’t go to a bar or a play. You can’t go out to eat with friends. You can’t even go to a big family dinner without getting into an angry political argument. Everyone has a strong opinion about Trump, Hillary, Rocket Man, healthcare, Confederate statues, the minimum wage - everything.

Stephen Waguespack: Louisiana needs the protection offered by Amendment No. 1

Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, a well-known and trusted voice, said this week that he expects turnout to be around 15 percent for Saturday’s election.

Names make news

Names making news—and generating opinions: MIKE PENCE. The Veep fooled no one Sunday. He calculatingly attended the Colts-49ers game in Indianapolis just long enough to stage a walkout as soon as San Francisco players knelt during the national anthem.

My dad, Hef & real wealth

Since Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s recent death, a variety of voices have been calling him everything from a cultural icon and innovator to, according to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, “wicked,” a “chauvinist” and “a pornographer.”

Facebook is the new big brother

You’re putting your life at risk, one like at a time Facebook’s fairly recent slog into transparency reveals some rather nasty big-brother surveillance of their users.

We need fallacy control now!

Enough is enough. It’s epidemic. It’s dangerous. And the time has come to demand its end. In the aftermath of the horrific massacre in Las Vegas, America needs fallacy control. Yes, we must declare war on fallaciousness.

All politics, all the time?

“It’s everywhere you turn these days. I can’t take it anymore.” “Ah, yes, you speak of a regrettable fact of modern life — that politics is in our face everywhere we go, even in professional sports.” “Professional sports always provided a respite from the worries of the real world.

The eye-popping cost of illegal immigration

Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $116 billion annually, according to a new report published by the Washington, D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Illegal aliens’ presence in the United States has long been debated.

Tell our Yankee friends to butt out

Our friends up north need to let it go. According to a cross section of northern commentators, the Second Reconstruction may be over, but they think a third one may be necessary.  Consider the Washington Post’s take in an Op Ed by their columnist Harold Meyerson.

NFL Pigskins at the public trough

I’m calling foul on all the leftists rushing to protect the NFL’s protest crusaders from President Donald Trump’s criticism of their national anthem antics. Their shabby line of defense?