The Transition Charade
— November 23, 2016For those millions of Americans who awakened to discover that their Donald Trump nightmare was not just a bad dream, the question is, What to do now? Do they accept the platitude about…
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America Is Not a Safe Space
— November 23, 2016Pity the anti-Trump protesters thronging the streets of American cities. Apparently, no one ever told them that they live in a geographically, economically and ideologically varied…
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Fewer emissions testing stations is a real stinker
— November 16, 2016Don’t you get sick and tired of being government’s piggy bank? Local officials want to be more green, so you and I can’t use plastic grocery bags and we have to pay for those…
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For me, it’s wait till next year
— November 9, 2016I missed it. The Cubs won the World Series and I missed it. Oh, I saw games 1 through 6. I even saw most of Game 7. But, I missed IT — IT, the moment when the Cubs won the World Series….
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The Democrats Asked for This
— November 9, 2016Before Democrats burn James Comey in effigy, they should think about how the FBI director came to have an outsized influence in the election in the first place. It’s not something…
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President-Elect Trump
— November 16, 2016There are two ways of looking at this: Donald Trump’s astonishing victory was a devastating repudiation of the status quo, an angry demand for change in a system that average Americans…
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President Obama’s stinging rebuke
— November 16, 2016In the course of about six hours, what was supposed to be a Republican existential crisis turned into a Republican wave. What was supposed to be a victory of the coalition of the ascendant…
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We’re All Know-Nothings
— November 9, 2016The Clintons aren’t the only ones who give speeches. I do, too. The only difference is that my going rate, in case you’re interested, ranges from a pittance to nothing. So I feel…
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