Tea and Vitriol

Melanija Knavs is a Slovenian-born immigrant who came to America thirty years ago to become a "fashion model." I use that term politely. Most of the clothing she modeled could be found in exclusive catalogs and would be sent in plain brown wrappers. They left little to the imagination, and she happily displayed her breasts, buttocks and beaver in pursuit of her career. Since Slovenia wasn't nearly big enough to contain her, she set off for Paris and Milan, where she changed her name to "Melania Knauss" and there met Paolo Zampolli, a businessman based in New York City. It was Zampolli who hired Melania and brought her to Manhattan, arranged for her Green Card and whereupon he introduced her to multi-millionaire Donald Trump, who was then between wives. The Donald, with a taste for flashy women and prostitutes, eventually made her his third wife in 2005. Like any self-respecting pimp, Zampolli was later awarded political appointments by The Donald, once he had be...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, America rejected the British Monarchy. Many of our Founding Fathers felt that we had outgrown it and that hereditary kingship was no longer beneficial to our circumstances, hopes and goals. That the British have chosen to maintain the Monarchy up until the present time is their business, so let them look to it. Unfortunately, Americans are still obsessed with the glitz and glamor the Royal Family still exudes, since they are wrapped in a cocoon of fabulous wealth, privilege and prestige. Supposedly, in our republican and democratic political culture, we have foregone all of that, yet we miss the fairy tale of it all, the rituals, the pageantry and the jewels. Our First Families simply do not compare, nor do the political dynasties our history has brought forth, because they come and go, while the British Monarchy remains. Yet the concept of hereditary monarchy is based on the belief in superior and inferior classes, with the monarch at the top of the he...