Author: Larry Horist

The groupies inside the Beltway are obsessed with President Trump’s finances.  An unusually large number of Democrat-controlled House committees are launching investigations into every aspect – and every asset – of Trump’s multifaceted and complex financial empire. There investigations are based on rumors, gossip and unsubstantiated accusations of wrongdoing.  Congressional Democrats are panning for political gold.  So far, they have only found Fool’s Gold – which they are passing off to the public as the real thing. They want Trump’s tax returns because … because … hmmmm.  Oh yeah, because…

Unless my memory is failing me, Iran was and is a rogue state that finances attacks on American interests from cyber warfare to terrorism.  Their treachery goes beyond America.  Iran is a theocracy with a form of Islamic fundamentalism that is a constant threat to Israel and even the non-Muslim nations of Asia.  Their alliance to Russia is a double threat to Europe. Iran is engaged in an intramural Arab war in the Middle East – with Saudi Arabia as the primary counterpoint.  With the help of Russia, Iran now…

One would hope that when a Christian clergyman invites a Muslim minister to share the sanctuary, it would be a good thing.  You know, a show of harmony and brotherly love.  That is how men of the cloth are supposed to be. But not when the men a Chicago’s radical show-boating Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church, and the guest of (dubious) honor is the Nation of Islam’s bombastic, racist and antisemitic Louis Farrakhan. The reason for the invitation is ironic.  It seems that Facebook banned Farrakhan…

It does not take a professional pundit or life-long political analyst to know that all these early Democrat presidential candidate polls are meaningless.  It is simply too early to even have the slightest clue who will emerge in the lead going into the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee in the summer of 2020. It is like calling a horse race from the starting gate.  The early front-runners are often viewing horse hindquarters rather than the finish line.  Anything can happen – as the recent Kentucky Derby proved. But still, polls…

Crooner Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but a lot of local folks are leaving something a lot less romantic – poop. No, not talking about dog doo doo, but human excrement being left on the streets and byways of the California city. Once known for its iconic cable cars, the trendy Fisherman’s Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the city by the sea has become famous – make that infamous – for the tons of human poop that litter the public…