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Kennedy is politically savvy enough not to reveal all his conspiracy theories, but since he is as kooky as the average American, hold on to your hats

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'Shall we do it again?', Lois asked her wife about another sperm donor baby, a question left dangling until Amanda got up for the croissants. But then again all couples regardless of sexuality have their differences

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Progressives fear Bible-thumping at its worst; yet it is just this febrile intellectual immodesty that helped them to defeat. Populism includes religious belief, and they never got the picture

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The tenacious self-interest of kings and their will to dominate have created the great civilizations of the world. Not without a fight of course.

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Monument Avenue in Richmond is no longer an allée of history which stood not as an embrace of slavery, but as an acknowledgement of the Southern past. It has become a street like any other, but no longer.

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The gay parade marched through the streets stopping for a fanfare in front of Harper Elementary and the First Methodist Church of Christ, then back to the fairgrounds to unwind and prepare for the next dance.

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Rejected out of hand by the Mayor of Chicago, a former Senate aide said, 'It's the prairie or nothing, Dave', but the thought of milking cows, tending chickens and goats was mind-numbing

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The influence of culture can never be overlooked. The Left's culture of victimhood and faux Utopian idealism have corroded the originalist Enlightenment ethos of America; and Trump has vowed to restore it

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This is true revolution and the apotheosis of rightful vengeance - a removal of the enemy, his animus, hatred, and personal villainy; and a structural reform such that he will never rise again.

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Herman had no idea how quickly and how deeply DOGE would cut. If entire departments are eliminated and whole chunks of others are gone, paper shuffling and pass-the-buck inefficiency will end -curtains for G7s

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Bobby Muzelle never learned his lesson, and at last word he was still attending women's conferences, speaking to sparse crowds in Chillicothe about the gay man, raking his lawn, masking up, turning the thermostat down, and wearing sensible shoes. Why should anyone expect him to change? This kind of true belief is an instinctive, innate optimism in the face of the facts.

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We are products of a roll of the dice – no purpose, no divine sanction, nothing else to do than to play the hand you've been dealt

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Marion Marechal, Giorgia Meloni, Donald Trump and leaders in Hungary, Poland, Russia among others, have made a dramatic turn to the right. It is not so much a civil issue, but a cultural one.

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As Bob, passionate environmentalist, looked out the dingy window of his tenement nonprofit, he knew that he and global warming were finished, political detritus at best

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TRUMP THE FASCIST IS COMING! - POPPYCOCK, IT JUST LOOKS THAT WAY TO THE ILLUSIONIST LEFT 'Fascist'? A facile, simplistic, ignorant accusation, and a full-throated, ignorant howl. The Democratic Party is already talking of retooling, toning down, moving to the center; but it will take a lot of fancy footwork to reset the balance. They have been whupped and whupped badly, and no rejiggering will do any good whatsoever.

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Within weeks lawns dried up, babies wailed, and the place looked like shit. Deportation would not last, Jose knew. Americans would soon be fed up with high lettuce prices and would open their doors once again.

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The Left looks at the pre-Inauguration hoopla at Mar-a-Lago - white, straight, young, beautiful, and able - and can't believe that their dreams of a multicultural, diverse government that 'looks like America' have disappeared. 'Hold on to your hats, America', say party-goers. 'You ain't seen nothin' yet'