Start with a mounted menace: Masked and armed ICE agents advancing on horseback across a soccer field on Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park. It’s quite a show – scary as hell. Ah, but no one to chase down and manhandle, just frightened summer campers.
Young column: MAGA he-men with pedophile pals
For a sect whose world is furnished with wild claims and rabbit-hole plunges, MAGA people aren’t very good at conspiracies.
Young column: Policymaking stupidity at flood tide
The morning after the Texas deluge, when the death toll along the Guadalupe was only in double digits, a commentary in The New York Times carried this subhead: “The poisonous effects of cutbacks will eventually reach you.”
Young column: Never you mind, child; free market will fix all
I missed the hearings, so I’m asking: When members of Congress quizzed Stephen Miran as this president’s choice to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, did anyone ask him to identify the planet on which he resides?
Young column: News flash: Supreme Court finds ‘equal’ unconstitutionalSupreme
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men hardly are created equal,” wrote the founders of this country. They continued: “Those of inherent privilege are endowed by their creator with special status; the rest can soak.”
Young column: A war president with zero credibility
For the one-time reality-show guy, things just got real. Real except for any trustworthy explanation or justification about what happens or what he directs our military to do in the war into which he has enlisted all of us. As anyone with ears should know, truth is not what this president does.
Young column: Make a wish for a racist police state
It says everything about the Little Dictator’s war on brown people that ICE began its June 6 raids in Los Angeles at a Home Depot. Just the place to find rapists, murderers and gang-bangers: Aisle 12 – between the yard trimmers and fertilizer spreaders.
Young column: Safe in their tunnels and bunkers
Having grown up just past the dawn of the nuclear age, I remember having silly romantic notions as a child about the scariest thing imaginable:
Fall-out shelters.
Young column: Uses for $5 trillion other than a tax-cut ‘debt bomb’
Speaking of big tickets: The Washington-based Committee for a Responsible Budget says the fiscal designs pushed by the Republican-controlled House will result in $5 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years.
Young column: ‘Venezuelans!’: a scarily racist campfire tale
Check next week for the president’s next target. Here’s my bet the target’s skin will be brown. People from Venezuela have been in the news a whole bunch recently.
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