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That’s Somebody Else’s Car

“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations”  Nikola Tesla wrote in 1905, “invariably result from misunderstandings in the...

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Schumer’s Surrender: Much Ado About Nothing Surprising

“House Democrats erupted into apoplexy,”  Axios reported on March 14, “after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he would...

17.03.2025 9

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Yawning Through the Rites of Spring

It happens twice a year, every year. I complain about it — often to you! — twice a year, every year. It’s the semi-annual switch between...

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Real Laws For Artificial Problems

On February 26, ABC News reports, Europol announced the arrest of 25 individuals it accuses of being “part of a criminal group engaging in the...

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The Press Is More Important Than the President, It Should Start Acting Like It

In mid-February, the White House barred Associated Press journalists from presidential events for refusing to change the name of a body of water from...

26.02.2025 4

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Sleeping or Not, DOGE’s Lie

So much going on! Will Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency  succeed in their supposed quests to shut down everything...

13.02.2025 7

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Trump’s Tariff Schemes Hurt Even More When He Flip-Flops

As January bled into February, Lora Kelly notes at The Atlantic, US president Donald Trump “announced 25 percent tariffs on the country’s North...

10.02.2025 6

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Why the New Boss Could be Worse Than the Old Boss…by Being the Same Boss

Last November, when DOGE remained a gleam in president-elect Donald Trump’s eye,  its leader apparent promised, via a post to his favorite...

06.02.2025 9

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Trump’s Return to Office Order: the Opposite of DOGE?

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last November (“The DOGE Plan to Reform Government”), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy asserted that “[r]equiring...

29.01.2025 7

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a New President

Well, here we are: After a long presidential campaign full of warnings from each “major” party campaign about the horrible things the other...

16.01.2025 20

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Politics Makes People — Including Supreme Court Justices — Stupid

On January 10, US president-elect Donald Trump officially became a convicted felon as New York judge Juan Merchan sentenced him on 34 counts of...

15.01.2025 10

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Veterans and Violence: Chicken or Egg?

“I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost,”  Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger (US Army) allegedly wrote in an explanatory...

06.01.2025 10

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A Man, A (Bad) Plan, A Canal, Panama

In 1989,  US forces invaded, conquered, and occupied Panama, replacing its pet dictator, Manuel Noriega with a new regime.  Then-president George...

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Happy Holidays (There Ought to be a Law to Help With That)

It’s “year in review” time for most political columnists, so here’s my opinion on 2024, along with a recommendation for 2025. Opinion: Zero...

24.12.2024 4

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I Heartily Agree With Donald Trump (and It’s About Time)

On December 13, president-elect Donald Trump pledged on Truth Social that in his coming term the Republican Party will “use its best efforts to...

17.12.2024 5

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Hey Joe, Pardon Me and Everyone Else!

On December 1, outgoing US president Joe Biden issued a pardon for all federal crimes his son, Hunter, “has committed or may have committed or...

05.12.2024 10

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Trump’s Second-Term “Efficiency” Offering: Microwaved Leftovers

On November 12, president-elect Donald Trump announced his second-term plans for a “Department of Government Efficiency” which will, in his words,...

25.11.2024 6

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Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other?

In the wake of the latest presidential election, it’s morning in America! Well, maybe not, but a lot of people seem to be talking about Bluesky,...

19.11.2024 2

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Non-Endorsement Isn’t “Neutrality” or “Objectivity”

In late October, the Los Angeles Times published its list of candidate/issue endorsements for this year’s general election. Missing from the list:...

29.10.2024 3

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Election 2024: Prediction and Reasoning

The last few weeks (sometimes the last few months) of a presidential election cycle always leave me feeling somewhat burnt out. As a political...

22.10.2024 3

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Florida’s Abortion Measure: DeSantis Angles for a Mistrial

Florida’s proposed Amendment 4 would add the following language to the state constitution’s Declaration of Rights: “… no law shall prohibit,...

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The Virtues of Selfies-ness Revisited

In the past, I’ve written on (my friend and heroine) Caryn Ann Harlos’s challenge to Colorado’s law commanding that “[no] election official,...

15.10.2024 3

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All Warrants Should Be Public Records

On October 7, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from X — formerly Twitter — concerning, among other issues, the use of “nondisclosure orders”...

09.10.2024 2

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Biden’s War on Temu is a Political War on Your Wallet

On September 13, the Biden administration announced a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” to “protect American consumers, workers, and businesses by...

25.09.2024 5

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Cats, Childlessness, And The Politics Of Subtraction

“We’re effectively run in this country,” J.D. Vance told Tucker Carlson in 2021, “be it the Democrats, be it our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of...

16.09.2024 2

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Would-Be Censors Peddle Yet Another Election Meddle

In early September, the US Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two employees of RT (formerly Russia Today), alleging that the...

12.09.2024 3

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There’s Nothing Really New About “Active Listening”

How many times have you casually mentioned buying, say, new curtains to your spouse, then found yourself bombarded with ads for window treatments...

05.09.2024 3

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Marijuana: Your Permission Isn’t Really Necessary

“In Florida,” former and possibly future US president Donald Trump writes on Truth Social, “like so many other States that have already given their...

03.09.2024 4

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RFK Jr. Was Never Really the Alternative He Pretended To Be

On April 19, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched his long-shot presidential bid as a Democrat. On October 9, 2023, he declared himself an “...

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