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Trump now leader of free world

I would like to publicly acknowledge my my pleasure that Donald Trump is now leader of the free world.Even though he garnered fewer popular votes than his opponent,  his electoral mandate is tacit permission to cede governmental control to Wall Street and Moscow. His moral life and profound ...

Dems must win back working class

Protests denouncing the Trump administrationĢƵ ISIS-enabling travel ban are not going to get Democrats where they want to go: in charge of things in Washington and in many state capitals.Let me be clear, from a policy and political perspective, last weekendĢƵ airport protests were healthy ...

GOP gets a taste of own medicine

Under ordinary circumstances, a distinguished legal scholar who is within the mainstream of conservatism like Judge Neil Gorsuch should and would be confirmed without undue delay as Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. These are not ordinary circumstances.The Republicans have decided ...

Democrats come up losers in Supreme Court fight

When Senate Republicans decided last year to ditch their constitutional duty —by stiffing President ObamaĢƵ eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee, denying him even the courtesy of a hearing — they took a big political risk. They gambled that the voters wouldn’t punish them on ...

Can Gorsuch be better than Scalia?

With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence,” but “there is no such philosophizing in our Constitution,” which is “a practical and pragmatic charter of government.”Scalia was wrong, ...