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Don’t want beneficiaries losing Obamacare

Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What got his fingers fumbling on the keyboard was Joe Biden’s being out in the country warning Americans that another presidential term for Trump would cost them their health care. Trump wrote, ...

One more try at reducing the debt

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”- Polonius to his son Laertes in “Hamlet” It may be too late given the number of Americans who have willingly allowed themselves to become dependent on government more than themselves, but it’s worth trying. Our $34 trillion debt is ...

What’s wrong with America’s ‘elites’?

It is becoming increasingly clear that some of America’s most serious problems can be traced back to our colleges and universities — or at least the ones educating the country’s most powerful people. The Vietnam War era aside, it has traditionally been uncommon for events at ...

Feeble wobble on Hamas risks sinking Biden

You can blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for plenty of things, and plenty of Israelis do. These include his cynical maneuvering to avoid being held to account on criminal charges, his alliances with nut jobs in his coalition government and the gross negligence that left Israel ...

Cherry Tree Therapy for GOP?

Washington’s pink cherry blossoms, a spring sight for sore eyes, are about to be whacked. The Park Service says 150 trees must be cut down to build a new seawall round the Tidal Basin, where the marble Jefferson Monument perches perfectly on the water. That calls up the legend of young ...

GOP candidates exemplifying squalor

From Herbert Hoover’s “a chicken for every pot” (1928) to Ronald Reagan’s “It’s morning again in America” (1984), some campaign slogans have been humdingers. The slogan of Republican Kari Lake’s Senate campaign could be: “Oh, never mind.” Here in Arizona and in Ohio, GOP ...