Category: Columns

The snide old saw in college used to be: If you can’t make it in business, teach it. In media today, it’s become: If you can’t make it in politics, preach it. Republican Jeff Flake, who declined to seek reelection as a senator from Arizona and recently abandoned the notion of challenging Donald Trump for…

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Only a few of us are still around – native-born Californians who lived in the paradise-like state before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and after the disastrous 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. Reading the handwriting on the wall, anticipating continued unwieldily immigration-fueled population growth and the diminished quality of life that it brings,…

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I’m so unhappy with my cable TV and internet services that I’m going to do what I’ve long dreamed of doing: Cancel my subscription! I’m not alone in my unhappiness. Consumer Reports says cable providers “have consistently rated below average among services we cover.” A 2014 Consumer Reports survey of 81,848 customers “found almost universally…

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The accountant prepared my taxes last week. Usually, I get a refund, something I can use to buy myself a few extra lattes and my monthly SEPTA pass. This year, thanks to changes in the tax code, I will now end up owing the government. In fact, I’m thinking that President Donald Trump will be…

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Now that the inevitable moment of truth has finally arrived – with Donald Trump in banana republic mode, concocting a phony national emergency, flouting the will of Congress and trampling its constitutional spending power – we will soon learn whether he has fatally infuriated the Fellowship of the Furrowed Brow. I am referring, of course,…

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So here’s another reason why it’s important to pay attention in what happens in your state capital. Last week, two Pennsylvania state lawmakers – both Republicans – fired the opening rounds of the 2019 culture war, announcing plans to reintroduce legislation that would ban abortion based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome. Plan for the…

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the looniest lefty I’ve seen elected to Congress in my lifetime. But Ilhan Omar, her fellow rookie House member from Minnesota, is so radical she scares the pants off me. After watching Omar in action, it’s pretty clear to me that the Muslim Democrat hates America almost as much as she hates…

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Howard Stern has the same likelihood of being elected president in 2020 as Howard Schultz, but the Stern campaign would be much more interesting. And Stern already has nationwide name identification that ‘Starbucks’ Schultz lacks. Outside the business pages, the only major coverage Schultz has received in the recent past has been negative. Howard’s news…

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Democrat and Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently announced that no direct evidence of a conspiracy between Russian intelligence operatives and Trump campaign officials has been uncovered by their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign. Despite the president’s mistaken belief that he has been fully-exonerated (he hasn’t), the more pressing…

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President Trump wants more people to come to the United States! With my own two ears, I heard the President say on back-to-back days that he wants historically high immigration levels, and more people that he foolishly claims “we need.” Since Trump was referring to more legal immigration, one could be forgiven for thinking that…

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