Peter van Buren

Why the Trump toilet story stinks

12 February 2022 3:09 pm

While President Trump was in office, White House staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and came…

Hating the January 6 ‘sedition hunters’

18 January 2022 2:11 pm

I hate these people. I hate them for who they are and for what they are doing. And most of…

Democrats’ only hope for 2024: jail Trump

2 December 2021 2:56 pm

The Democrats’ only possible path forward is to ensure that Trump does not run in 2024. So they want to…

Wokeness claims a museum

29 November 2021 2:16 pm

When will our intellectual life return to normal, where facts come together into conclusions? Today, in service to ideologies like…

A ‘resistance,’ selfish and cynical

19 November 2021 5:09 pm

It’s bad enough when someone actually thinks reposting an “I Stand With…” meme is an act of woke resistance. But…

America’s state of malaise

14 October 2021 2:45 pm

The word malaise, a general feeling of uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify, is creeping into discussions. It’s…

AUKUS, Afghanistan and the foreign policy amateur

22 September 2021 5:01 pm

Since Joe Biden was elected in part as a salve for Donald Trump’s perceived foreign policy blunders, it seems reasonable…