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GOP “debate” of December 3
Just as I was dealing with withdrawal from no Republican debates for 17 days I learned on Friday there would be one last night. It turns out it wasn’t a debate after all, but a “forum” in which three...
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Random political thoughts
I have finally given up on not writing about the 2016 election, but at least we are within a year of the first real votes being cast. Some observations: What deep Republican bench? The Conventional...
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GOP kicks off 2016 political season
I don’t know how we made it through the last 33 months without a presidential debate, but thankfully our nightmare is at long last over. In words a thought I would never utter, Fox News put on a...
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Trump is the one
Near the end of Thursday’s debate among the top seven Republican contenders I came to the conclusion that Donald Trump would be the nominee. Not only was this his best performance in any debate so far...
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A trip to New Hampshire
My political junkie brother proposed a trip to New Hampshire in advance of the Tuesday primaries. I thought it a brilliant idea and am embarrassed that I had not thought of it. That would make me one...
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What’s left for Trump to say?
The latest statement by Donald Trump would knock an ordinary mortal out of the race for the Presidency, but Trump has proven, again and again, that he defies the laws of gravity. At one of the Sunday...
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Clinton is in trouble
Yesterday’s primary results in Michigan and Mississippi are yet another indication that Hillary Clinton’s “inevitability” or “electability” tropes are in serious trouble. She lost Michigan after polls...
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New lows in “Presidential” politics – at least for now
The leading candidates for the Republication nomination keep tripping over themselves in bringing the level of discourse in politics to ever-new lows. After the terror attacks in Brussels, Donald Trump...
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Why is the Main Stream Media giving Trump a pass on racist comment?
My wife called on the morning after the New York primary to ask if I had heard Carl Paladino on NPR that morning. I said that nothing Paladino would say could surprise me. I was wrong. Paladino is...
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The makings of a Democratic disaster
Great news on the polling front from Quinnipiac. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are basically tied in crucial swing-states of Pennsylvania and Florida and Trump leads in Ohio. National polling is...
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Start to general election campaign a major embarrassment for media
NBC held a “Commander-in-Chief Forum” Wednesday night in which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appeared separately in half-hour segments. Moderator Matt Lauer, whose credentials appear to be based on...
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Clinton devastating in debate
I haven’t followed boxing for years, but early in last night’s debate, Hillary Clinton caused me to start scoring it as if it were a boxing match. If memory serves, there is a “10-point must system”...
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Topics for next debate
Syria North Korea Iran Iraq Libya Israel and Palestine ISIS Al Quaeda Unarmed black men being killed by police Police being killed in ambushes Income inequality Recovery from 2008 economic collapse Tax...
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In defense of locker room talk
My first time in a locker room was in 7th grade when I started junior high school. We had mandatory gym class and had to wear a white T-shirt, blue gym shorts with the white stripe and a jock strap....
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Election post-mortem
I guess Hillary wasn’t the electable Democrat after all. The next time someone uses “electable” as a reason for supporting a candidate, think of this election. And also 2004 when that was a prime...
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Have we lost our collective minds?
We have apparently reached a point in our democracy where any ridiculous conspiracy theory will be given currency. There was a time when such theories were reserved for the denizens of the fever...
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34 days out and it’s worse than I thought
I did not have high hopes for a Donald Trump presidency. He is the most manifestly unfit person for that office in my lifetime and, no, I have not forgotten about George W. Bush. But I also thought...
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“Lock him up!”
The Washington Post reported today that Michael Flynn, the retired general picked by Donald Trump to head the National Security Agency, “inappropriately shared” classified information with foreign...
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Scoring a Trump presidency
When I put my head in my hands while reading Gail Collins in the Saturday Times, my wife said I had to stop reading the news. While I have largely avoided broadcast news since November 8 in favor of...
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Trump continues carnage against truth
I once represented someone on a disciplinary charge who was accused of unleashing a stream of vulgarities against a manager. He vehemently denied doing so. When I asked if there were any witnesses,...
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