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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - January 15, 2018 in Columnists
Shitholes and profiles in cowardice
“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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - December 28, 2017 in Columnists
Wade Christmaspalooza 2017 is in the books
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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - October 26, 2017 in Columnists
Great speeches, now let’s blow up the government
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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - October 13, 2017 in Columnists
He’s still got the whole world in his tiny hands
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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - October 5, 2017 in Columnists
The truth is I can kill you
We're not getting rid of guns anytime soon, because that's who we are. This is 'Murica.
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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - August 26, 2017 in Columnists
What if this camel’s back is unbreakable?
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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - August 10, 2017 in Columnists
He’s got the whole world in his tiny hands
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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - July 27, 2017 in Columnists
Triumph of the shrill: Trump and the Boy Scouts
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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Kelvin Wade
Columnist - July 6, 2017 in Columnists
Please tell me the Secret Service isn’t investigating Kathy Griffin
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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