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Here’s why I voted for Scott Dunn

Politics are complicated, which helps explain my split-ticket vote last Tuesday for Scott Dunn, a Republican incumbent Fayette County commissioner. TuesdayĢƵ vote certified that Dunn will return to his office at the courthouse, joining two other holdovers, fellow Republican Dave Lohr and ...

Ballad of the Falling Leaves

“The falling leaves drift by the window. The autumn leaves of red and gold”…<em>"The Autumn Leaves" – 1945 – Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer</em>As I write this, I’m sitting near a large sliding glass door, leading to our backyard.Out there, I don’t see any ...

Warding off the danger to democracy

Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke often about the importance of history in the context of securing AmericanĢƵ democratic future.Just months before the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, at the dedication of the presidential library that bears his name at his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., FDR said, “A ...

Democracy is messy. But this messy?

Attention Democrats!: If you’re planning to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024, I have just the campaign strategy for you.Just end every one of your paid political announcements with the words “AT LEAST I’M NOT A REPUBLICAN!”You might be a bank robber who steals ...

It was not a good week for the GOP

It kind of ended well. Otherwise, it was a bumpy ride, a frightful and frightening week for Republicans.“I failed to do my due diligence,” Jenna Ellis said in an Atlanta courtroom. “... I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse.”What Ellis viewed with such retrospective ...

With the world on fire, it’s Joe time

On Air Force One, while flying from Tel Aviv back to Washington, D.C., early Thursday morning, President Joe Biden paid a rare call to the planeĢƵ press section.Having shed a business suit for a casual zippered sweater for the 14-hour hour flight home, Biden told the reporters that “not ...