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Robert Mueller has finally spoken.President Trump can breathe easy.He is not going to jail; he probably won’t face impeachment; he can gloat all he likes -- "cause there really was no collusion!"It should be clear sailing toward the 2020 election.Whom am I trying to kid?Trump being Trump, and ...

Have you no dignity, Mr. President?

<em>“I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve. I don’t care about this. I didn’t get a thank you. ThatĢƵ OK. We sent him on the way. But I wasn’t a fan of John McCain.”</em>-- President Trump, in a speech in Lima, ...

How not to help your child

All parents want whatĢƵ best for their children.Some parents want more than others.Those parents break laws, the rules of decency or both to give their kids an unfair help.A few years ago, I happened to ask a legendary high school basketball coach how the game had changed since he started ...

Republicans have an “AOC” phobia

For Republicans, there is, indeed, a national emergency.They’ll swear it could easily destroy America, while it lays waste to our way of life.This national emergency isn’t caused by anything sneaking north from Mexico.It started in the Bronx and Queens New York.Right-wingers don’t even ...

President TrumpĢƵ “ex-fixer” Michael Cohen has no reason to sing TrumpĢƵ praises.Trump frequently calls him a “rat.”So, when Cohen appeared before the House Oversight Committee for eight hours last Wednesday, he fired a barrage of carefully worded attacks aimed directly at the ego ...

Trying to find a little perspective

Perspective?ThatĢƵ what I was looking to find when I peeked at some of the columns I’d written for this space ten years ago.My how things have changed.I wrote notes for each of the hundreds of those columns (more than 600 of them) to help me form my opinions.For instance, in a note I wrote ...