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The hare … or the tortoise?
From the day he announced his candidacy, if not before, Joe Biden has been my choice for the Democratic nominee for president. His age didn’t bother me and his experience and qualifications were second to none. In the first Democratic… Read More ›
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Free as a bird
Yep, Donald Trump is now free as a bird to do anything he pleases. And I’ve no doubt he will. The last entity that could have reeled him in, the U.S. Senate via impeachment conviction, passed on the opportunity. In… Read More ›
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Finally, the banished words for 2020
Earlier this year I looked for the 2020 Banished Words list from Lake Superior State University and somehow managed to miss it until now. This is the 45th annual list published by the university and, as always, includes the words… Read More ›
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Thank you, Mitt Romney
Thank you, Sen. Mitt Romney, for being a man of conscience and conviction and voting accordingly. You were that rare Republican, the only one in the U.S. Senate, with the courage to vote against Donald Trump. Your integrity will be… Read More ›
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Pelosi upstages Trump
Taking a cue from Donald Trump, who loves to distract from unflattering news by creating his own news, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of Trump’s State of the Union address last night while he was still at… Read More ›
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False start
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They is just sayin’
As most of my regular readers already know, I’m a retired editor. And as you might have guessed, I have followed — with considerable consternation — the discussions and explanations regarding the use of they as a singular pronoun. I… Read More ›
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Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to midnight
Most adults have probably heard of the Doomsday Clock. It was created by the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, America’s atomic bomb-building project during World War II and is used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to… Read More ›
