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Voters don’t want Harris, Trump policies

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Harris, with an eye on polls showing young voters not as pro-Democratic as in the past, has ...

‘Hate’ is Trump’s signature word

The FBI is investigating the source of suspicious packages sent to election offices in more than 20 states. Some election offices have been evacuated; staff are frightened. Suspicious packages, bomb threats, death threats, harassment, assassination attempts, and violence are consequences of ...

Next president won’t have mandate

Let’s skip ahead to after the election. No matter who wins, the next president will declare that they have a “mandate” to do something. And they will be wrong. The whole canard that a newly elected president is for some reason entitled to have their way is an invention. The word ...

Harris owes us some answers

It’s been more than two months since Vice President Kamala Harris was deeded the Democratic presidential nomination. During that time, she has not held a news conference or sat with many mainstream journalists to answer serious questions about how she would lead the country and who she would ...

Cheney walks the walk for democracy

Back in the days when I was a moderate Republican, I still found Liz Cheney too far right-leaning for my tastes. And that went for her dad, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as well. Even today, I may not agree with her on this issue or that, but we’re on the same page on the primal ...

Carnival barker loses his marbles

Donald Trump’s surrogates faced something of a challenge in the aftermath of last week’s presidential debate, obliged to insist that things had gone well for him, all evidence to the contrary. And there was plenty of contrary evidence provided by the former president’s responses to ...