Cuckoo for Coco Gauff! Cuckoo for Coco Gauff!!
July 5. In 15-year-old American Coco Gauff, we may be seeing the debut of the next truly great women’s tennis player. That may be a radically premature assessment as she […]
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‘Yesterday’ is most fun film of today, and of the year
(July 5). No road too long or too winding should keep you away from seeing the movie Yesterday. My wife and I both agreed it was the most simply enjoyable flick we’ve […]
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America is better than unpatriotic ingrates say it is
(July 3). As this wonderful nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, please forgive me for expressing a bit of righteous contempt for ungrateful Americans who fail to appreciate the blessings […]
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‘Mad Jones’ book event, July 23, New Orleans!
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 reading/signing event for […]
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Hey, ideologues, take a chill pill
(Column, June 24). The reason some of us think partisans are needlessly hyperventilating about the awfulness of the “other” side is that too many partisans are indeed needlessly hyperventilating. A […]
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Miscellaneous three: Pot, gunshot, and Senate plots
Sheriffs stir the pot to weed out legalization laws (June 25): When it comes to legalizing recreational marijuana, American lawmakers should listen to the nation’s sheriffs and just say no. […]
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Fifty years later, watch ‘Apollo 11,’ and marvel
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner, June 17, 2019. Some time in this next month, dear reader, please, please, please find and watch the documentary film “Apollo 11.” It’s a merely […]
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Keep smart phones from making us dumber
(June 17.) Most of us whose brains haven’t been fried by overuse of “smart” phones have tacitly assumed that there are some dangers to the overuse of those devices. Now, […]
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Ten -year-old, climbing El Capitan, really rocks
June 20. This might one might be behind a firewall. If so, I urge you to register. Meanwhile, the link is here. The column begins like this: It’s not clear […]
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Scalise shows grace, and gratefulness, two years later
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise paid fitting tribute Wednesday to a person without whose courage he and perhaps numerous other representatives and staffers probably would have died two years ago […]
