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Tom Brady teaching a bad lesson

The Eagles victory was greeted joyously in our family. It’s always a high when you (or your team) come out on top. But in the final minutes of the Super Bowl, as the clock remained stuck on the two-minute warning for what felt like 20 minutes (at least for those of us eager to pop the Champagne), former quarterback-turned-TV-commentator Tom Brady filled the air time with lugubrious thoughts about how awful it is to be the loser. “The reality of a loss in this game,” he opined, “is you don’t ever get over them,” adding that he thinks about his losses more than his ...

Shredding USAID, Trump also shreds US

“The key to success,” George Burns observed, “is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Donald Trump has established himself as far and away the most successful faker in American history, conning half the country plus a bit more in battleground states into believing that he is all about Making America Great. Motivated instead by projecting raw dominance, he’s administering a wrecking ball to the country. Three weeks into his administration, Trump has reduced the federal government to utter chaos. He is gutting the Central Intelligence Agency, increasing our ...

Malleable words in party-line press releases

The entire media-Democrat complex spent years building panic over President Donald Trump being a dire threat to democracy, only to be embarrassed by the electorate who decisively chose the Terrible Threat over Kamala Harris. Now Trump is displaying the highest approval ratings of his political career, and voters are satisfied he’s acting on his campaign promises. Pretty much all his Cabinet picks are getting confirmed. So, what can this Panic Patrol do now? Just as judges and prosecutors were arrayed to stop Trump before he was elected again, a passel of mostly Democrat-appointed ...

Trump rides the vibes

After a flurry of activity — the president’s tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trips to Panama and El Salvador, the release of arrested Americans in Venezuela — it seemed clear that the focus of Donald Trump’s foreign policy would be the Western Hemisphere. And then, just a few days later, as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the first head of government to visit the White House since Trump’s inauguration, Trump announced that ...

Turner’s turn-around job at HUD

Scott Turner, former state legislator, NFL player and pastor from Plano, Texas, will take over as the new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Given that the history of HUD is about everything that Donald Trump wants to change in Washington, Turner has a great challenge and opportunity. That is, HUD is all about government. Turner has many great ideas, and among these he’s thinking about changing the name of the department. My vote would be changing the name to HCD, Housing and Community Development. Community Development would emphasize programs ...

Club shows why DEI is here to stay

While President Donald Trump signed executive orders to strip diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs from the federal government, Aretha Fuqua traveled to Atlanta to accept the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion award on behalf of the West Louisville Tennis Club at the United States Tennis Association Southern Division awards presentation. USTA Southern considers diversity, equity and inclusion efforts essential to the sport’s growth. “We are committed to ensuring that people of all backgrounds have access to and feel authentically welcome in the game and ...