Lawrence Baron

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Debates traditionally provide the opportunity for candidates to puff up their public reputations.  This year the Republican Presidential Debates have deflated their stature.  This partly stems from Donald Trump sucking up all the oxygen in the news cycle, but also from his opponents pathetically trying to be Trump without […]

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — For the first time since Covid descended upon us, I took a long flight to outside the United States.  My lingering paranoia about contracting Covid prompted me to wear a mask, even though most of the passengers seemed oblivious to the continuing rise of Covid cases and brazenly inhaled

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Jim Jordan failed to win over enough “moderate” Republicans to vote for him in his bid to become Speaker of the House.  Eavesdropping through the microphone I planted in the men’s bathroom outside the House Chamber [the toilets there are called Chamber Pots], I heard the following promises Jordan

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Every morning I skim through my emails.  Glancing at the fifty to one hundred of them in my inbox, I momentarily feel I’m extremely popular until I realize that most of them are fundraising ads for Democratic candidates.  I’ve tried to block them but it’s like kicking a toadstool

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Although not Jewish, MAGA politicians are trying to court Jewish voters.  Thus, they have posted penitential prayers on their websites.  Here’s a sampling: Marjorie Taylor Greene: Dear God, I confess that I have been mean to Joe Biden.  In the coming year I vow to campaign very hard against

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for protesting his policy of allowing antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and white supremacists to post on his social media website X. He claims that the ADL accusing his of promoting such ideas has caused the decline in advertising revenues for X.

(Melody: Margaritaville) In memory of Jimmy Buffett, who was an environmental activist By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Gasping for fresh air. Don’t heed the Lib scare. Or all of the experts at the UN. It’s getting hot here. But I have no fear. That it will cool off, And life here won’t end. Closing

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Hurricane Idalia left widespread damage in Florida and the southeastern coast of the United States in its wake. Once it formed, the news coverage fixated on it to the exclusion of other stories.  Although this has happened in the past, this time it came as a welcome relief. Forecasters warned

(Melody: Georgia on My Mind) By Laurie Baron Fulton County, Fani D.A. Racketeering charge Upholds the voters’ will. Georgia, Georgia, There was no fraud. Recounted and judged Despite the protests shrill. False electors did not prevail Now they might serve time in jail, But for now they’re out on bail Until their guilt is proved.

By Laurie Baron Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, has observed that many MAGA Evangelicals reject Jesus’ doctrine of loving your neighbor and caring for the least among us as “liberal talking points.”  To prove their point, they claim that archeologists recently discovered a lost manuscript in an excavation of an ancient Roman latrine.  Here

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Sir Richard Branson’s rocket company Virgin Galactic ushered in the era of commercial space flight with its successful launch and landing of the VSS Unity.  It carried one passenger who paid for his ticket and a mother and daughter from Antigua who won the voyage in a lottery.  Although

(Melody: Hit the Road Jack) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Try him soon Jack. And don’t let him come back, no more, no more, no more, no more. Make him squirm, Jack. Don’t let him come back no more. Oh Donald, Oh Donald, you pushed the Big Lie. You should have conceded, but you

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — This week Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist and ultra-Orthodox coalition rescinded the Israeli Supreme Court’s power to overturn governmental laws and policies deemed unreasonable.  Subsequent “reforms” will grant the ruling coalition the right to override Supreme Court decisions and appoint all the judges on the Supreme Court.  Since I have a copy