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OP-ED: These Republicans are defunding the U.S., not China

House conservatives have devised a “new and improved” threat to the world economy if their demands are not met. Once again, they vow to vote against raising the cap on U.S. debt if desired cuts in government spending are not made.Once again, they insist their plan would not crash the world ...

OP-ED: America seems to go crazy every 50 years or so

Amid news that Donald Trump is about to be indicted by a hyperpartisan prosecutor and of his hysterical responses, and prompted by vagrant reading about the War of 1812 and Woodrow WilsonĢƵ violations of civil liberties in World War I, a thought occurred to me. America seems to go crazy every ...

I get email

Back when I worked in television in the early 1980s, I reviewed hundreds of movies each year.I had one fellow walk up to me and say, “I disagree with your review of ...” whatever the movie was.I asked him if he liked that movie. He told me he hadn’t even seen it. He just wanted to let me ...

The shock of a return from Florida

I’m home. The furnace is running. OMG. After a week in balmy Florida, where I dipped into the hotel swimming pool, watched ballgames, and paraded around in shorts and T-shirts, the cold is hardly bearable.Flying from the Gulf Coast to the hill-top airport on the outskirts of Bridgeport, ...