Senate Republicans burned by Bolton’s book
(June 18) Every Senate Republican except for Mitt Romney now owns every single damaging revelation about President Trump reported in the memoir of former national security adviser John Bolton. Those […]
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Military base names should not be sacrosanct
(June 10) President Trump has taken a morally and historically unacceptable position in saying his administration “will not even consider” the renaming of military bases now named after Confederate generals. […]
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Rodney King sends note to my readers (figuratively speaking)
Why can’t we all just get along? Those famous, admirable, and heartfelt words of a troubled and far from blameless Rodney King, the victim of a famous police beating in […]
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So-called conservatives acting badly: Three columns
If conservatism is (wrongly) conflated with strong-man tactics defending “order” ahead of most other considerations, then that sort of conservatism must be opposed — especially where it is dishonest. Herewith, […]
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Americans need a third candidate for president
[June 1] President Trump’s entirely counterproductive, even dangerous, response to the current nationwide unrest makes even more evident the desperate need for a third candidate of substance to enter the […]
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Jeff Sessions starts fighting back
(May 26) Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is finally getting feisty in his battle to win back his old Senate seat from Alabama — and his feistiness is nothing […]
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Jeff Sessions’ letter is right: He was right to recuse
(May 12) In one particular part of a remarkable open letter to citizens of Alabama, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally makes a crucial point about why he recused […]
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Two Key Aspects of the Michael Flynn controversy
I must admit, this feels odd. I have almost no sympathy for Gen. Flynn, who seems to me to have shown bad ethics or bad judgment on multiple occasions — […]
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Fox News wrongly sued; Trump wrong again on tariffs
Two completely unrelated pieces. For the full columns, follow the links embedded in the headlines. Lawsuit blaming Fox news for COVID-19 threatens First Amendment (May 14): A judge on a […]
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Trump obscenely ‘congratulates’ Bridgegate perps
(May 7) President Trump, as usual, is justifying awful behavior by exaggerating the meaning of a legal escape. Trump on Thursday tweeted that political allies of his bully-boy buddy, former […]
