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The news 100 years ago was terrible

It was unfortunate what happened to Andrew Nichols in South Brownsville, getting shot and then dying of his wounds.Unfortunate, but in a way understandable. He was playing with fire. The police report put him at CroppĢƵ place in South Brownsville, where gambling was known to take ...

GOP has no clue about ethics

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.Republicans planned a big old fashioned shindig. The champagne may have been on ice. The party hats could’ve been about to be unboxed.Republican members of the U.S. House were ready to party hearty. Except for one thing.On the eve of the 115th Congress, ...

Who knows what Trump will do as president?

The idea that Donald Trump will live in history, let alone the White House, is mind-boggling to the large number of us who remain deeply skeptical about the president-elect.But a President Trump may be the very thing we need right now. Didn’t he give promise during the campaign of smashing ...

No predicting what Trump will do

The next installment of the American empire may well be a doozy.Of course, things are already pretty shaky. Responsibility for the tragedy of Aleppo, in northwestern Syria, does not rest with the Obama administration; that disgrace belongs to Russia and the Syrian government. President Assad ...

Trump’s thin skin on display again

“The world was gloomy before I won - there was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10 percent  and Christmas spending is over a trillion dollars!”Donald Trump on Twitter December 26th, at 6:32 PMDonald Trump was in fine form the day after Christmas when he made his pronouncement that his ...

Time to Move On? From What?

ThereĢƵ a rather interesting internet picture I’ve seen that piqued my interest.“Irony: People Waving Confederate Flags, Telling Others, ‘You Lost. Get Over it,’” the caption says.That says a lot, doesn’t it?Not that many of the Republicans who voted for Donald Trump delight in ...