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I know a lot of Hillary Clinton voters and anti-Trump people were hoping against hope that a miracle would happen in the Electoral College vote on Monday and that faithless electors would spare us four years of the Emperor of the Idiocracy. But I’m glad...
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Alan Lichtman, an American University professor who has used a special system to correctly predict the president for the last thirty years, was a lone voice saying that Donald Trump would win the presidency this year. He also added that he believes Trump will be...
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We can blame Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for much of the political craziness this year. If Scalia hadn’t bit the dust earlier this year Republicans wouldn’t be holding their nose to vote for Donald Trump for president. The Supreme Court is the ballgame. And...
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Donald Trump is truly the new “Teflon Don.” None of his deplorable antics faze his rabid supporters who operate in a fact-free reality. Sure, GOP politicians are distancing themselves from Trump following the release of the sleazy Access Hollywood bus tapes where Trump says being a...
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“…the conservative movement in the Republican Party will be taken over by a con artist portraying himself as the fighter of the ordinary person fighting for the working man — but he’s spent years sticking it to the working people.” —Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Republican presidential nominee...
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As a writer, sometimes you have no words. Your topic is so astonishing and appalling that you’re struck mute trying to formulate just what to say. Other times you suffer from too many words, words that threaten to burst forth from your inner being in...
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This column originally appeared in the Fairfield Daily Republic on June 23, 2016 Donald, I guess it was curiosity that drew me to you. Yes, I knew of you. I’d see you on the cover of magazines, on the news and at one time I...
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I went behind enemy lines. I attended a Donald Trump rally. It all started Wednesday morning when I was putting the finishing touches on my newspaper column. I received a text from my significantly better half, Cathi, that read: “Trump is in Sacramento today. You...
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I jumped in the shower after submitting my newspaper column. It was as if my body craved a cleansing after spending days wading through the muck and wreckage of today’s Republican politics. Reviewing the record of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and the dreary election...
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