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Next president should say little

The mere possibility of a Donald Trump presidency — gold-plated faucets in the house first occupied by John and Abigail Adams — will perhaps have a salutary effect. It might demystify an office that has become now swollen with inappropriate powers and swaddled in a pretentiousness ...

Budweiser is the King of Beers

Because advertising is a barometer that often accurately measures AmericaĢƵ psychological atmosphere, attention must be paid to this: From May 23 through the presidential election, Budweiser beer will bear a different name. Eager to do its bit to make America great again, the brewer will ...

Conservatives eye 2020

Donald TrumpĢƵ damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their partyĢƵ history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to ...

Puerto Rico may need bailout

Immigrant goes to America,Many “hellos” in America;Nobody knows in AmericaPuerto RicoĢƵ in America!— “West Side Story”Puerto Rico, an awkward legacy of the United States’ 1898 testosterone spill, the Spanish-American War, is about to teach two things that few Americans know: If ...

GOP should ban open primaries

“One fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked up the telephone and taken an order for zero-coupon bonds that had brought him a $50,000 commission, just like that, this very phrase had bubbled up into his brain. On Wall Street he and a few others — how many? — three hundred, ...

US must plan for cyber wars

There is a consensus that aggression by one nation against another is a serious matter, but there is no comparable consensus about what constitutes aggression. Waging aggressive war was one charge against Nazi leaders at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, but 70 years later it is unclear ...