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‘Iryna’s Law’ and the bad judges who have made it necessary

What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway — though this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police pressed him about what happened. Had he set his own clothes ablaze to attract attention? In the wild environment our subways have become, a malicious attack or a madman’s self-inflicted injury are both all too believable. Most trips on the New York subway or ...

Feeling more appreciative than ever

As we are now upon another holiday season, with the celebration of Thanksgiving just past, I am especially grateful to be able to spend this time with my mother and friends. Since baking turkey is one of my signature dishes, my friends often tease me because I go to at least three grocery stores to find the best turkey sales by the pound. However, Thanksgiving sides and desserts, such as macaroni and cheese and sweet potato pie, are not in my culinary skillset, so I always end up buying them. I keep telling myself that I must get my cooking up to par to reflect my Southern heritage, and ...

Trump’s war on drugs could be lunacy

Since President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971, federal, state and local governments have spent an estimated $1 trillion fighting it — and losing. Donald Trump now seems fully engaged in that futile conflict, adding his own twisted brand of violence. It’s not enough to bomb boats “suspected” of ferrying drugs to the United States. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military, after the initial strike, to “kill” survivors clinging to life rafts on the waters below. Shocked lawmakers, Republican and Democratic, are calling such actions ...

Do something about prices, GOP, or you’re going to lose

I absolutely love seeing the left-wingers and corporate media squirm and whine about deportations. Every little story about how someone who “never did nothing to nobody” that ends with someone here unlawfully makes me smile. “No one is above the law,” Democrats routinely say without irony, which is fighting harder than they fight for anyone to keep gang members, wife beaters and any other kind of illegal alien from being subjected to our laws. They hate you, they hate us, they hate everything and want to see whatever they can’t control be destroyed so they can replace it ...

So, we’re thankful to whom for what?

Among my growing list of improper uses of the English language is the response I get when telling a restaurant server or anyone else “thank you.” The usual response has been for as long as I remember, “you’re welcome.” For the young, especially, it has become “no problem.” Why would thanking someone for a service or kindness performed be considered a problem? Thanksgiving, which mythically began when the Pilgrims and early settlers thanked God for his “many blessings,” despite their difficult circumstances, is now a small bump in the road on the way to the annual ...

The tariffs really are not helping anything at all

Ronald Reagan famously said that the most frightening words in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” U.S. manufacturers must know exactly what the Gipper meant. Donald Trump is a whole-heartedly pro-manufacturing president, and he’s definitely here to help — with a dizzying array of tariffs. So far the evidence is that, on net, his tariff agenda is not helping, and almost certainly hurting, the manufacturing sector he’s out to rejuvenate. The September jobs report was pretty good overall, but manufacturing continues to be a ...