Category: Columns

I was out of the country for a week with my wife, but when we got back it was like nothing had changed. The national media were still yakking and arguing about the same BS they were when we left. Depending on what TV channel you turned on, it was still either all pro-Trump or…

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If there’s a sucker born every minute, our commander-in-chief is clearly the man of the hour. What’s fascinating about this president is how an expert con man (as he is) can so easily be conned. In nearly every foray abroad, President Trump has exhibited either gullibility, complicity or a deliberate willingness to accept at face…

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It’s hard to believe Richard Nixon, the consummate, disciplined insider, and Donald Trump, the shambolic, impulsive outsider, have anything in common, but it’s true. Both men shared the belief that winning a national election should convey political power. Acting on the belief a national majority gave him a popular mandate to make changes in Washington…

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The experience of two Republican lawmakers from Pennsylvania – a state that President Donald Trump won in 2016, and one that remains critical to his reelection chances – tells us a lot about the state of the GOP in 2019. First up, there’s Pat Toomey, the Keystone State’s junior senator. If Pennsylvania voters know one…

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As it should be, China is very much at the center of the national conversation. Over one billion people live there. They constitute the largest single potential market for U.S. goods and services anywhere in the world. We want to trade with them – and should want to – but under a set of rules…

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The U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill that would require health care professionals to provide life-saving medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion. It’s difficult to write such a sentence without recoiling. Yet, all but three Senate Democrats – Bob Casey Jr., Joe Manchin and Doug Jones – voted against the…

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After several years of driving with a clean record, most of it while I was awake, the unthinkable happened.On a recent drive, after turning up the radio while singing along with the high parts of Boston’s “More than a Feeling,” I looked into my rearview mirror and saw something we all dread. No, it wasn’t…

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Remember the good ol’ days of shade tree mechanics, denim patches and Emmett’s Fix-It Shop on “Mayberry R.F.D.”? The growing complexity and fragility of high-tech consumer products (smartphones, tablets, video game consoles, microwave ovens, tractors, etc.) has threatened such a thrifty lifestyle; but some activists claim that even more damage has been done by the…

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Democrats applying to be their party’s next presidential nominee constitute the second largest growth industry in America surpassed only by those providing legal advice to Trump Administration staffers. It’s a number climbing to where it might be easier to list those currently not planning a run. And no, we can’t rule out Jimmy Carter, Anthony…

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The Trump regime has trafficked in self-parody since its inception, so perhaps we’re already numb to the news that it intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency. You heard that right. Even though the federal government’s National Climate Assessment officially warned in November that the planet is truly…

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