Can I speak to a manager, please? How many times have you been on the phone trying to accomplish what should’ve been a mundane task and been told by an underling on the other end of the line that said solution to said problem isn’t available because of x, y or z, weak excuses akin to a child’s “my dog ate it” response when queried as to why his or her science project was late. Even in this age of universal information availability, it’s amazing how little people purport to kn

It’s hard to believe now, but once upon a time, and not long ago, it was considered unattractive and abhorrent if not socially unfashionable to wear a face mask. English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote an entire musical around the concept, more popularly known as ThePhantom of the Opera. For those who haven’t seen a stage production of the show (loosely based on French novelist Gaston Leroux’s 1910 work) -- or the 2004 movie of the same title starring Gerard Butler (who tr

If you’ve ever watched a motion picture that depicts the clash of armies in the old, old days -- at least before airborne bombing runs and “shock and awe” cruise missile-type all-out assaults from the heavens -- you might’ve noticed that there comes a certain point in most battle scenes where nothing much can move in either direction. For example, in the 2005 movie, “Kingdom of Heaven”, which imagines the struggle for Jerusalem (roughly between European Christians and Middle

Being president is hard, isn’t it? Or to further clarify, being Joe Biden and being president at the same time is mighty demanding. Sure, no one in conservative Republican-land has forgotten about how hard it was for Donald Trump during his political career. Considering the trying times weren’t all that long ago, it’s easy to recall how intensely the left and their media allies hated the 45th president. They threw the #MeToo book at him. They labeled him a racist from the get

Do all lives matter? And, is everyone equal? Consider: a decade ago, if someone suggested that all lives didn’t necessarily matter equally or that one group’s humanity was held in higher esteem than others’, that person would’ve been branded the most heinous of exclusionists and summarily drummed out of culture town if not strung to the nearest available high-tech lynching tree. Literally since the beginning of time, different groups of humans struggled to enforce equality. A

For you parents out there (including dog lovers), how many times did you take something away from your child and have his or her conduct improve instantaneously? Self-destructive behavior is a funny thing (well, not to the people who must put up with it). All of us at one time or another engaged in habits or activities that were contrary to our well-being, which drove our guardians, spouses, teachers and friends crazy. Doctors tell patients that they’d best lay off the booze

Straight from the horse’s mouth: white supremacists (or more succinctly, “white resistance”) prevented former president Barack Obama from pushing slavery reparations during his White House days. Just when you thought American politics couldn’t get any crazier, the race obsessed Democrat party seems poised and enthusiastically willing to continue on a path towards consuming itself over the concept of overt and hidden prejudice, which nourishes the thought police and their enfo

Death, (more) taxes and executive orders are certainties under President Joe Biden An old saying goes that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Not to disagree with the wisdom of the ages, but when it comes to Democrats, there are a basket load of additional certainties sitting on our doorsteps, perhaps starting today. As some people gather at the Capitol Building to witness Joe Biden recite the constitutional oath of office to become the 46th President of the

This isn’t the way I never thought I’d say this, but I agreed with Chris Wallace yesterday. Watching the video images of (alleged) Trump supporters having broken into the United States Capitol building to “protest” or stop the counting of the electoral votes -- or whatever they were there to do -- was something I never thought I’d witness. Wallace was calling on President Trump to say something, and I thought he was right. My immediate impression was the “protesters” were con

There are lots of reasons President Trump is likely to be reelected – some are purely technical political campaign reasons and others are matters of policy preference for the majority of the electorate, but in our view the top three reasons Trump will be elected are centered on how Trump has branded the Democrats and how the Democrats have branded themselves. And the third of those top three is that Democrats have branded themselves as opponents of American Exceptionalism and

If Democrats love Colin Kaepernick’s cause so much, shouldn’t they openly embrace him? Despite the utter absence of evidence that President Donald Trump and members of the Republican Party are racists, Democrats and their followers are still accusing conservatives of thought crimes and “systemic” bias nonetheless. One of the leftists’ leading spokesmen, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, recently advanced some fresh thoughts on an issue that’s very much