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What does Trump really want?

Republicans threw a big old shindig for themselves last month.They beamed with self-satisfaction, with the House passage of a plan that would end Obamacare.The event, which took place in the White House Rose Garden, was a display of smug glad-handing by an assemblage of House Republicans, and a ...

Ask your questions now before it’s too late

I’ve been going through old family photographs, and one thing I’ve noticed is that I have no idea who certain people are; they are family, but who are they exactly?One guy particularly stands out. A stout fellow, heĢƵ in several photos with my dad when my dad was a young man. He may be an ...

Trump’s second son chimes in

Little Eric Trump, the 33-year-old second son of the president had a few choice words for Democrats last week.“To me, they’re not even people,” he proclaimed.Hey, wait a minute! I’m a Democrat. I’m a people. Or, should I say I’m a person.In fact, at times, I’d like to think of ...

Trump contradicts himself daily

“It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #Fake News media,” Trump has tweeted as if he thought he was making perfect sense.Donald Trump is at war with people whom he claims “leak” information.At the same time, he claims ...

Trump has split U.S. in half

Donald Trump is the first ever president to give the backhand to good old American democracy.Indeed, the president goes out of his way to slap the living daylights out of such things as freedom of the press, religious tolerance and objective truth. An expansive view of the American future? ...

JFK still remembered fondly

Think of John Kennedy the way he was described by the sage of the Chicago, Carl Sandburg. Kennedy, Sandburg pronounced, “walked with the American people in their great diversity.”Or the way Norman Mailer saw him. Kennedy, Mailer wrote, fulfilled AmericaĢƵ need for a hero and for “a man ...