Four pieces defending parts of Trump-world
Readers of this site will know I am hardly a fan of Donald Trump, but fair is fair: When he or his people are wrongly criticized or treated, I will […]
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A challenger must rebuild civil society eroded by Trump
August 8: When I launched a virtual candidacy to challenge Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination, it made an appeal based on “debt, decency, and diplomacy.” As the parts […]
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Hollywood’s ‘intimacy coordinators’ give audiences a raw deal
August 6: Hollywood still can’t get sex right. The September issue of the Atlantic features a lengthy article on newly #MeToo-ish Hollywood suddenly hiring “intimacy coordinators” and formalizing other protections so that semiexplicit sex […]
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Three-fer: Fed rates, the wall, and crazy California
[Three unrelated pieces. For the full articles, follow the links embedded in the headlines.] Crazy California attacks both democracy and capitalism (July 30): No earthquake has yet sent California crashing […]
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As race-obsessed media cries wolf, Trump gains in polls
(July 22) The media is helping President Trump’s reelection effort by its constant, obsessive, nearly unhinged determination to tell their audience for the 2,965th time that Trump’s tweets about four […]
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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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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 […]
