WASHINGTON — When H.L. Mencken said that Puritanism was “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,” he was barely grazing the iceberg of the titanic fundamentalism to come. Yes, those ...

I was deeply offended by the cartoon in the Standard Examiner the other day, awarding President Biden the worst president award. In my experience, Biden has been one of the strongest and most ...

It was Groucho Marx who said, “I don’t know what they have to say, it makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is – I’m against it!” And that’s so often the attitude of Australians generally to their ...

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