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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rusted out Joe makes himself heard

Actions speak louder than words, but words are important, too, especially when they come from a president.In recent days, President Joe Biden has delivered two resounding addresses, one dealing with the crisis in the Middle East, the other with the crisis of democracy at home.Both statements ...

McCarthy’s ouster and the road ahead

The House of Representatives was on the verge of a governing majority last week. And then it wasn’t. The gulf between the two parties was too great and antagonisms between lawmakers too severe to admit to real cooperation.Thus, Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the speakership by eight renegade ...