Free Republic

This is not a banana republic. This is the United States of America. Here we are on the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact (November 11, 1620)---the document that initiated American democracy that culminated in the Constitution and our freedoms.And yet election integrity is at risk. How this is resolved may well determine what kind of a country we become and what kind of a legacy we leave for our children and posterity.As one man put it, “The importance of getting it right outweighs the importance of rushing to judgment.” Who was this? Some rube with the Trump campaign? No,...

When I was young, and my father was living, he proclaimed that he was a Democrat because the Democratic Party was for the working man, as he used to say. He was proud to be a working man. I admired him for that. My father was a printer, a skilled tradesman who believed that one could better themselves by working hard. And like my father before me, I, too, believe by working hard and smart one can achieve anything. In this election season, I saw hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people, go to Trump rallies. I did not...

Maybe it was because the presidential election was just a few days away. Or maybe it was because I arrived at the airport a good two hours before my flight and had plenty of time. Or maybe it was because of the combative interview I recently had with the celebrity website TMZ. We will get to that later. But as I walked through the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, I saw a young white man with long black hair, maybe 20 years old, walking toward me. He was wearing a black T-shirt with white letters: "Protect Black Women." It was quite...

"There’s no evidence of fraud!" is my leftie friends and family members’ reflexive response to any suggestion that the Biden campaign benefitted from chicanery on Election Day (or is it Election Season now?). It's almost creepy in its cult-like stridency and uniformity. The rest of us look at the litany of allegations – even if largely anecdotal – and wonder which South American hellhole we’ve been transported to. Republican poll watchers not being allowed to observe ballot counting and being told to “call the police” in order to get in? Windows of Detroit polling stations being covered with cardboard so...