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Pence was perfect in his debate

Now that was a debate.The Mike Pence-Tim Kaine bout Tuesday night wasn’t the main event of 2016.It was what they call in boxing an “undercard” match. It was a contest between two natural lightweights — the VP candidates.There was no exciting 12th round knock out.But Pence and Kaine ...

Trump’s comments beyond disgusting

Some thoughts on the significance, moral and political, of Donald TrumpĢƵ recorded comments about women — what parts of them he likes, and what parts his star power enables him to grab at will:First — and this is in no way to diminish the offensiveness of TrumpĢƵ remarks — letĢƵ ...

What will Trump do tonight?

Dick Shelby, the tall, rumpled, soft-spoken senator from Alabama, sauntered into a pack of reporters in the basement of the Capitol late on a January day in 1999.It was in the midst of the Bill Clinton Senate impeachment trial for perjury and obstruction of justice, although the real subject ...

Hillary channels her inner Seinfeld

HARRISBURG — In politics as in comedy, timing is everything.Hillary Clinton was about halfway through her stump speech here Tuesday, stabbing needle after needle into Donald Trump and his apparently glancing relationship with the Internal Revenue Service, when she paused, smiled and found her ...

Dangerous

In no realm is the U.S. president more powerful than in matters of national security. A president may launch wars, conduct intelligence operations and strike deals with foreign governments with minimal checks from the courts and Congress. If he wished, a President Donald Trump could carry out ...

Americans have to say no to Republican candidates

When America votes in November, your children and grandchildren may be the ones paying the price.Donald Trump, a con man with the vocabulary and temperament of a spoiled sixth-grader may win the presidential election. Described by other Republicans as a corrupt con man and pathological liar, ...