The Bolts are bolting, setting off to the north in search of higher profits and perhaps a stadium with “sky boxes” for big money types who like nachos and a…
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Since this past November 8 I have been mulling over the mentality of the Trump voter. For some reason this old joke kept coming to mind. It goes as…
Readers of these pages are surely aware by now of my lack of patriotism. It’s not that I do not like the amber waves of grain, forspacioius skies or dawnzerly…
It’s the second “morning after” of trying to say the words “President Trump” and the speculation on “WTF happened!” and how “great’” or “gawdawful” our faux democracy is going to…
The final act in the less than illustrious presidency of Barack Obama might well be that he is responsible for, for the second time, trashing the presidential ambitions of Hillary…
In a political atmosphere in which a candidate openly supported by white supremacist organizations exhorts his followers to de facto intimidate minority voters at the polls, and who employs “dog…
I voted today. I sat at my desk, felt-tip pen in hand and filled in the bubbles on the ballot, beginning with my vote for Hillary Clinton. The ballot was…
Last night at the presidential debate No. 2 Hillary started off by buying into our “America Great Again” Trumpism by going off on how great America supposedly already is (the…
It has been evident from the first primary debates that Donald Trump had tapped into something roiling beneath the surface of American politics. Trump himself probably wasn’t even aware that…