By Laurie Baron, Ph.D
SAN DIEGO — Where there’s woke, there’s ire.
What do James Bond and police officers with qualified immunity have in common? A license to kill.
If someone likens something to the Holocaust to condemn it, then their reasons for condemning it are probably unconvincing.
If Republican senators invoke the filibuster to stop a vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, can they be charged with obstructing justice?
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is good legislation regulating gun ownership.
An insurrection by any other name is still revolting.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” And he never even met Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. That’s why so many states are building ballot proof walls.
After the fourth Gaza war, all I can say to Israelis and Palestinians is a Pax on both your houses.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.