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White House is new “Twilight Zone’

“You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!” –Rod Serling,creator of The Twilight ZoneWhen I was growing up, every kid I knew loved the Twilight ...

Dems must win back working class

Protests denouncing the Trump administrationĢƵ ISIS-enabling travel ban are not going to get Democrats where they want to go: in charge of things in Washington and in many state capitals.Let me be clear, from a policy and political perspective, last weekendĢƵ airport protests were healthy ...

Trump continues his lying ways

"A slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect."Adolf Hitler, Mein KampfThe slogan?“Make America Great Again!”Presidential candidate Trump ...

No one can predict the future

Most people who say they like history really mean they like nostalgia. History can be hard; nostalgia, a walk down memory lane, is easy.HereĢƵ an example of both along with an inference:Around the middle of May 1930, newspaper editor O’Neil Kennedy attended a ceremony marking the ...

Trump can’t stop campaigning

The United States of America is plum tuckered out.On the days leading up to the presidential election, it was quite common to hear weary political-watchers announce, “I’ll be glad when this thing is over.”Well, itĢƵ over.But the weariness isn’t.The drag on the countyĢƵ energy ...