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Does It Matter?

August 18, 2021

t seems impossible to avoid seeing heartrending stories of Afghanis who worked for us and their families desperately seeking a safe haven. If they pull off a miracle of getting to Kabul through territory controlled by the Taliban, they face a Kafkaesque American bureaucratic barrier. Actually, two.

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Bipartisan?

January 13, 2021

ry me a river. Trump has sown division for four years. The Republicans have supported, sustained, protected and enabled him all of that time. Now they say we can’t have bipartisanship until the sane, patriotic defenders of the nation, the Constitution, ignore those four years and accept sedition, armed insurrection and treason as the price […]

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Happy Now?

November 17, 2020

onservatives have tried, quite successfully, to scare the populace with the word ‘socialism’ for at least a century. It still works with the illiterati. In both graduate and undergraduate  classes there were teachers of economics who were unable to provide a concise definition of the word. I seriously doubt that any of the politicians invoking […]

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Getting to Know You

October 6, 2020

wo Fake Christians. There is no need to explain how Trump displays his complete disassociation with Christianity. We know him. However, Amy Coney Barrett is a new arrival on the scene for most Americans. Permit me to introduce this judicial nightmare. As Trump might say, she’s a doozy. It’s just not in the way he […]

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We’ve Come To This

January 25, 2017

ow far have we sunk? From the Founding Fathers to the whiny man-child is an incredible stretch. The differences beggar the imagination.

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God Is Hate

April 20, 2014

eally? God is hate? If you believe that these Republican leaders and their toadies are Christians, then one can draw no other conclusion. As a child I heard that people fear what they do not understand. It appears that Republicans have conflated fear with hate. It is the easiest strategy for appealing to bigots, racists, […]

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How To Lose

November 3, 2010

There are a few truisms in politics. It is obvious that the Democrats have yet to learn them. It appears necessary to take them back for a review of PoliSci 101. Any nationwide election is multifaceted. This one was especially so. That means both the mistakes and correctives are many. I can cover them all but most […]

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