BY SUSAN ESTRICH I predicted it. I say this with pride, not because I was right and almost everybody else in the chattering elite was wrong, but because it demonstrates the dangers of knowing too much and thinking too much. I paid very little attention to the Brexit debate, mirroring what most Americans know about politics. I had other stuff to do. Nobody was paying me to comment on the EU. “If it passes, doesn’t […]

In case you missed it ... Brilliant satire! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358nsL6gzHs&sns=fb

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The most shocking thing about “Brexit” – the British people’s resounding vote to pull their country out of the European Union – is that it came as such a shock to the British establishment. After all, say the flummoxed elites, everyone who is anyone in Great Britain was opposed to exiting. The prime minister, leaders of all the major political parties, nearly every banker and corporate chieftain and most media barons had […]

BY FROMA HARROP The homeless can be scary people. They may block sidewalks, curse passers-by and aggressively demand money. Or they can be just sad. Growing homeless encampments are stressing cities across the country. Honolulu and Sarasota responded with stiff laws taking “vagrants” off the streets and out of public parks. South Carolina’s capital, Columbia, decided to give the homeless three choices. They can go to a shelter, get arrested or leave town. Several approaches […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN Some would say that Ernest Hemingway’s 1940 novel deals with the loss of innocence in war. Some would point to the value...