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Trump is like chemo for GOP

FreedomĢƵ just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”— “Me and Bobby McGee”What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaignĢƵ theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making ...

What’s the fascination with the Cubs?

“Lots o’ folks confuse bad management with destiny.”— Kin HubbardThe good news, a commodity in short supply, is that Americans are about to get a respite from the inundating Niagara of candidates’ blather.The bad news is that the respite will be a tsunami of Cubs Gush, which will ...

Nothing conservative about Trump

Looking on the bright side, perhaps this election can teach conservatives to look on the dark side. They need a talent for pessimism, recognizing the signs that whatever remains of American exceptionalism does not immunize this nation from decay, to which all regimes are susceptible.The ...

Toomey race sets tone for US

From Erie in the west to Scranton in the east, Pennsylvania is flecked with casualties the stubborn economic sluggishness and relentless globalization have inflicted on industrial communities. But in this middle-class Philadelphia suburb, Tom Danzi knows that the economy is denting even his ...

Putin exposed in new book

“In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. .?.?. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building. .?.?. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.”— George Orwell, “1984”Modern tyrannies depend on state control of national memories ...

In the year of the outsider, one senatorĢƵ experience is actually helping him

TERRACE PARK, Ohio — Sen. Rob Portman probably will win a second term, despite the fact that he deserves to. The swarm of young people who gathered on a Saturday morning in this Cincinnati suburb to feast on doughnuts and his gratitude are among the 5,000?volunteer interns, including students ...