Three Examples of Bad Trump
Follow the links embedded in the headlines. If Trump wants more civic peace, he shouldn’t re-welcome Steve Bannon (Aug. 17): Decent Americans should read with disgust the news that disgraced […]
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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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Trump abandons Hong Kong, human rights, and common sense
[Aug. 2]. We already knew President Trump is uncomfortable making a diplomatic case for American idealism. Yesterday, he showed his inclinations are even worse than that. Trump doesn’t just fail to proselytize […]
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CNN’s anti-Trump chyrons are infested with bias
[July 29] What is wrong with CNN these days? Has it lost all standards distinguishing news from opinion? There are plenty of us who decry President Trump’s frequent descent into […]
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A Roby-Hurd team could trump Trump in Iowa
[Aug. 2] In the past 10 days, two of the best young Republicans in Congress have announced they won’t seek reelection in 2020. Rather than retire from politics, though, Martha Roby […]
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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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Despite Trump, in praise of Baltimore
Contra our Insulter-in-Chief, I really like the parts of Baltimore I have visited through the years. I really, really like Camden Yards. After years of ugly, cookie-cutter baseball stadiums, […]
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Robert Mueller well served the public interest, despite it all
[July 26] Maybe Robert Mueller never had a political agenda after all. Maybe, just maybe, he is a patriotic public servant whose motive was answering the call of duty, to […]
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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 […]
