Don’t forget that tax cuts have consequences
— June 21, 2017Name? John Smith Occupation? Taxpayer. Wait. That’s not right. Taxpayer is not who we are. Paying taxes is what we do. And that is a big difference. Our identity, what we are, is…
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Swamp creatures
— June 21, 2017“If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bulls—t.” That’s just one of the rules of the Washington Swamp. A case in point is the statement…
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Can Wonder Woman just be Wonder Woman?
— June 14, 2017In the new “Wonder Woman” movie, the heroine is mystified by the ways of humankind — and she doesn’t even read the internet. The fevered commentary about the new…
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Father’s Day is a time to thank our dads
— June 14, 2017“Just wait until your father gets home!” On more than one occasion I heard my mother utter this threat when I had misbehaved. I lived the rest of the day in fear that I would “get…
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Embrace the robots
— June 7, 2017We have seen the enemy, and it is the robot. A wave of fear over automation is driving dire predictions about robots rendering swaths of Americans unemployable and has created a vogue…
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The age of unilateral rule
— June 21, 2017The Trump administration has been exhaustingly eventful, but almost none of the events have involved Congress. The beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency has been an extension…
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No laughing matter
— June 14, 2017I am a huge fan of Michelle Obama, like just about all people with brains in their heads. However, I pretty much disagree with her when she says, “When they go low, we go high.”…
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Why does old age get its own month?
— June 7, 2017We’re supposed to celebrate. Back in 1963, President John Kennedy proclaimed May as Senior Citizen Month. That title has since been changed to Older Americans Month. And May 18-25…
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