The Foreign Invasion We’re Powerless to Stop

Read MoreThe Trump administration’s budget proposal for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institute for Health (NIH) is unsafe, unwise, and fiscally irresponsible.

Read MoreThe Trump administration’s budget proposal for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institute for Health (NIH) is unsafe, unwise, and fiscally irresponsible.

Read MoreTrump is arming the beasts who fund and support ISIS and Islamic terrorism, but he won’t let me drink Havana Club rum or smoke a Cuban cigar.
Today, President Trump rescinded the normalization of United States-Cuba relations. But, he embraces Saudi Arabia.
This is is preposterous!

Read MoreMy Take on the (most recent) Bill Maher Controversy. His apology was troubling, given Maher’s long advocacy of free expression and self-professed championing of anti-political correctness.

Read MoreThe 2017 World Series of Poker begins this week. This will be the first WSOP in 25 years which I don’t plan on writing about or attending. With poker becoming a faint glow in my rearview mirror, this seems like a suitable occasion to clear out some personal files and post a few (previously unpublished) articles that were written up last year but never posted.

Read MoreOn November 22, 1963 at a nightclub in New York City, stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce decided to go on with the show. Just hours after President John F. Kennedy was declared dead, Bruce walked onstage in front of a uneasy audience. No one in the crowd knew what to expect.