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A de facto quid pro quo per se

There I was.Minding my own business back in February of 1991.I was taking in that classic thriller, “Silence of the Lambs.”Suddenly, and without warning, that vile, serial killing cannibal (with the cleverly rhymed first name), Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins), utters the phrase, ...

Afraid for the future of the country

Donald Trump is going to be impeached.This now appears inevitable. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she said several months ago the president, apparently unconstrained by convention, law, or common sense, was on a path to impeach himself.TrumpĢƵ attempt to stick up Ukrainian ...

And now, news from the 1750s

TodayĢƵ news sweeps gusher-like down the gutters of our lives. Each dayĢƵ news seems more astonishing than the day before. We sink or swim with the news. There is no getting away from it.News from the 18th century is another matter. Of course, it was long ago, and the leading actors are 200 ...

Everybody talked. Nobody listened. Until now.

ThereĢƵ that 1969 classic song by Harry Nilsson that goes, “EverybodyĢƵ talkin’ at me, I don’t hear a word they’re saying…” - that could be applied to our countryĢƵ politics.Everybody <em>is</em> talking, but nobody can hear a thing – ‘cause ...

The tangled web of gun politics

“I like taking guns away early,” the president of the United States said. “Take guns first, go through due process later.”President Barack Obama had a way of stating things that often went to the heart of the matter. But a call to upend the basic tenants of the American justice system - ...

Brace yourself for a wild impeachment ride

The plot thickens.It can’t get much thicker, but President Trump is a plot-thickening machine.HeĢƵ not only admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to do his dirty political work for him, but heĢƵ also asked China to perform the same skullduggery.But at the same time, heĢƵ denying ...