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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” —Martin Luther King Jr. This past week has made it crystal clear that on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day we live in a nation of cowards....
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My family does Christmas a bit different. The motto might as well be “It’s the thoughtlessness that counts.” The gag gift reigns supreme. Look we’re adults so if there’s something we want at Christmastime we’re going to go out and get it. We don’t need...
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It’s been great having Republican Senators John McCain, Jeff Flake and Bob Corker speaking out against the horror at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Some say it’s not really a profile in courage if you’re terminally ill or not seeking reelection. But at least in Flake’s case...
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I just finished reading the book “Hiroshima” by John Hersey. Hersey follows a half dozen people who survived the atomic bombing of that city on August 6, 1945. They all describe going about their daily business when a bright flash of the whitest light they’d...
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We're not getting rid of guns anytime soon, because that's who we are. This is 'Murica.
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Those of us who see Donald Trump as a dangerously unfit, unprepared, uncouth and reckless occupant of the Oval Office have, for the most part, convinced ourselves that there’s no way he’ll serve out a four year term. Some of us think Robert Mueller will...
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On the August 3, 2016 episode of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough reported that a foreign policy expert told him that in a one hour discussion with then-candidate Donald Trump, Trump asked him three times why we couldn’t use nuclear weapons. That chilling...
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You don’t have to be an anti-Trump partisan or Trump critic to deem the speech he delivered to 40,000 Boy Scouts at the national jamboree in West Virginia this past Monday night a horrible mess. Putting Donald Trump in front of children is like setting...
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It was reported this week that the Secret Service questioned comedian Kathy Griffin as part of an investigation into the video and photo of her holding a fake bloodied head of Donald Trump. Are you kidding me? My tax dollars are going into an investigation...
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