Easter basket worth is beyond price to me
— April 19, 2017We tend to confuse cost and worth, though there may be no necessary connection. Take this little basket, for instance. No one would believe it costs much. But as for its value … It’s…
Tag: DeKalb County Chronicle
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Awful questions, no answers
— April 19, 2017We don’t know if President Donald Trump was purely motivated to fire cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield. Was he genuinely horrified by the nerve-gas attack on a rebel-held…
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L Fools’ day
— April 12, 2017April Fools’ Day has come and gone, but on the first of the month, I kept marveling at how — starting even before he ran, continuing through his campaign and certainly since…
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Talk of raising minimum wage growing silent
— April 12, 2017For quite a while you couldn’t read a newspaper or watch news on TV without hearing about raising the minimum wage. It was THE hot topic. I can’t remember the last time…
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Founding Fathers knew what they were doing
— April 5, 2017I’m proud to be an American. I just don’t say it enough. We seldom do. We expend our breath on politics, complaining about our elected officials. But too seldom do we stand back…
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The Russian stoog
— April 19, 2017The circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. government at the highest levels. How else to explain a newly elected president looking the…
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The crisis of Trumpism
— April 12, 2017Trumpism is in crisis. This isn’t a function of poll numbers, or any melodrama of the past months, but something more fundamental: No officeholder in Washington seems to understand…
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Crashing back to Earth
— April 5, 2017Let’s dispense with the sanctimony and admit it: Most of us really enjoy piling on. I know I do. There are few things more exhilarating than participating in mass malice. Rarely…
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