Trump’s flaws, foreign and domestic
(For both of these Trump-skeptic pieces, you can read the full article by clicking on the links embedded in the headlines.) Moral hygiene is needed to fix Trump’s failed foreign […]
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Republicans sink to new lows
(For those of us who grew up in the Republican Party, today’s party is horrendously disappointing. To read the full versions of both of the following pieces on the subject, […]
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Impeachment? For Tweets? Get serious
If House Democrats want to undermine the seriousness of our constitutional system while also sabotaging their own political prospects, they can do nothing more effective than to vote to open […]
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Mad Jones at Octavia Books, New Orleans, July 23
AT OCTAVIA BOOKS! To all in New Orleans or vicinity, I am very excited to announced that Octavia Books is hosting me at 6 p.m. on July 23 for a […]
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The quiddity of Chappaquiddick was pure tragedy
It would be easy, and not unwarranted, to mark Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident by reviewing in excruciating detail all the ways that night that then-Sen. Ted Kennedy […]
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Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter’s malignant ‘malaise’ speech
Forty years ago today, Jimmy Carter gave one of the worst speeches in American presidential history. Reading it again, I am surprised to see that the notorious “malaise” speech is even worse […]
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AG Bill Barr speaks against anti-Semitism
As the media had conniption fits all day Monday about President Trump’s apparently bigoted Tweets about liberal Democratic representatives, the Department of Justice was focusing necessary attention on the growth […]
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Three to see, esp. on racism
(Three unrelated pieces. To read the full articles, follow the links embedded in the headlines.) Beyond ‘racism,’ let’s get language right: Sweet Briar College dean Fontaine Maury Belford taught her […]
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Jazz in the book adds context to jazz on film
(July 13). With 2019 being the year of movies celebrating British-originated rock music of the 1960s (Beatles) and 1970s (Elton John and Queen), Americans should take time to view a film about […]
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I’ll never buy Nike again
(July 8). I will never buy another Nike product again. I know I’m far from the only one to make this pledge. Nike’s withdrawal of its shoes featuring a representation of the […]
