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Is like Klansmen calling on blacks to embrace diversity. No doubt you’ve heard President Trump leading Republicans in calling on Democrats to compromise to end this government shutdown. They would have you believe they’re compromising by insisting on $5.7 billion in funding for a wall as part of broader border security. For Democrats, though, this… Read more.
I am on record dismissing Brexit as just a sham sold by shysters, full of lies and presumptions signifying no deal. I refer you to such commentaries as “EU: Britain Trying to Have Cake and Eat It Too,” January 29, 2013, “Brexit: Forget Leaving, Britain a Greater EU Contagion If It Remains,” June 22, 2016,… Read more.
Joe Biden is easily the most qualified American to be president of the United States. Moreover, to recover from this Trump presidency, we will need to inaugurate a president with the experience and character to restore competence to and respect for the office of the leader of the free world. Like me, you probably thought… Read more.
“I freeze all my leftovers until I feel less guilty about throwing them away.” Read more.
My family has been blessed beyond measure. That every one of my 15 siblings survived and thrived into adulthood is a testament to this. Even with Christy’s death, I feel more gratitude than grief. Because, having spent the last years of his life in such withering pain, dying must have come as a relief. But… Read more.
As it happens, nothing explains the magnitude of this upset quite like this pre-game headline in The New York Times: Alabama’s Toughest Competition Might Be Its Second String. Or Its Third. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to Alabama’s title: Using big plays, capitalizing on Alabama turnovers and riding the poise of [19-year-old… Read more.
The British monarchy is facing another abdication crisis. Only this time, the British people are calling for it in the guise of abnegation. Almost half of the British public believe Prince Charles should stand aside and let his eldest son William become the next king, polling shows. … The idea would be most popular with… Read more.
You’ll cause mass heart attacks if you have another health scare while Trump is still president. The 85-year-old justice underwent a pulmonary lobectomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center last week to remove two malignant nodules in her left lung. Friday’s procedure went smoothly, doctors said, and there was ‘no evidence of any remaining disease elsewhere… Read more.
Are no better than Obama haters who rooted for Obamacare repeal. One of the more baffling features of the Obama presidency was the number of poor whites who cheered as rich Republicans tried to repeal their Obamacare health coverage. Only blind hatred of Barack Obama (a.k.a. racism) explained their self-abnegating stupidity. More to the point, my… Read more.
And China will have it – either by agreement, the way it claimed Hong Kong, or by force, the way Russia claimed South Ossetia, Abkhazia … and Crimea. Chinese President Xi Jinping, declaring that independence is not an option for Taiwan, urged both sides to reach an early consensus on unification and not leave the issue… Read more.
