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Trump, Cruz look like fools

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump had a good day last Tuesday.Not just because they each won primary elections.But predictably, they both used the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels to convince America that they know how to easily prevent those kinds of things.They each have Superman complexes. But ...

Is government the enemy?

To show you how times have changed: once upon a time the federal government was considered the very heart and soul of the country. An attack on it was considered an attack on American democracy itself.How many people think that is the case today? Not as many as in 1861, I’ll bet.Let me ...

GOP can’t change its spots

Last Thursday marked a momentous occasion.It was the second anniversary of something the Republican National Committee called the “Growth and Opportunity Project.”I don’t know if you celebrated the event.I did.The Growth and Opportunity Project was a 100-plus page report that tried to ...

Don’t compare 2016 with 1968

Thousand of protesters descended on the candidate as he spoke. “Shame, shame, shame, shame,” they shrieked. Then “sellout, sellout, sellout, sellout” after which they deployed more explicit language — the kind of language thatĢƵ not normally heard or uttered in a campaign for ...

Con artist unfit for presidency

The more I see Donald Trump, the less I like him.His rambling “victory speech” after winning primary elections in Mississippi and Michigan last Tuesday proved he is not only unfit for the presidency, but a self-important snake oil salesman.While, for most presidential candidates, wins in ...

Daylight savings time was controversial years ago

Political issues come, political issues go. WhatĢƵ controversial one moment can, in a flash, become the most banal thing imaginable.Take daylight savings time. Yep, daylight savings time!Once upon a time DST shared the political spotlight with world peace — debated, dissected, and discussed ...