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Hurry up, Please. It's Time. Sep. 09, 2016
T.S. Eliot thought April is the cruelest month. But he didn't live long enough to sample the 2016 pr... Read More
Never-Trumpers vs. Reluctant Trumpers Sep. 09, 2016
Are you as sick as I am of seeing the tedious finger-pointing between never-Trumpers and certain Rep... Read More
Blame Voters, Not the Candidates Sep. 09, 2016
In a democracy, we generally get the leaders we deserve. So what does that say about this year's ele... Read More
Why the Polls Are Tightening Up Sep. 09, 2016
Maybe Hillary Clinton isn't going to be elected president after all. That's a thought that's evoking... Read More
It's Not Flight 93, and Trump Cannot Save America Sep. 09, 2016
My old friends Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Rush Limbaugh, among many others, seem to have made a... Read More
The Media Is Giving Hillary Clinton a Free Pass Sep. 09, 2016
Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was finally asked a tough question during NBC's commander-in-ch... Read More
Trump Is a Phony on Immigration Sep. 08, 2016
Donald Trump's recent rant against all things Mexican followed hard upon his promise of a gentler ap... Read More
Winning versus Leading Sep. 08, 2016
Labor Day has passed, school is back in session, businesses are planning for the new year, president... Read More
Trump at a Black Church in Detroit: What He Should Have Said Sep. 08, 2016
Here's what Donald Trump, at the black church in Detroit, should have said: "In the words of Malco... Read More
Is 'President Hillary' Wishful Thinking? Sep. 08, 2016
With just two months left until Election Day, the "conventional wisdom" says that Hillary Clinton wi... Read More
Trump Aces Forum; Clinton Looks Pathetic Sep. 08, 2016
At the very start of the NBC forum on national security affairs, Matt Lauer asked Hillary Clinton wh... Read More
This Nuclear Election Booms to an End Sep. 07, 2016
On the day after Labor Day 16 years ago, The New York Times ran a story providing crucial informatio... Read More
Free Speech Sep. 07, 2016
Donald Trump tells reporters, "We're going to have people sue you like you never got sued before." ... Read More
Trump's 'Softening' Can't Make His Immigration Stance Popular Sep. 07, 2016
Recent polls indicate that less than a quarter of Americans think the 11 million or so people who li... Read More
A Step Toward Closer Ties With Mexico Sep. 07, 2016
Donald Trump's pettiness and bombast about Mexican immigrants obscures an important point: Mexico is... Read More
Time Comes to Look at Support for Saudi Arabia Sep. 07, 2016
When the United States has friends like Saudi Arabia, who needs enemies? Last month, Congress releas... Read More
Cleaning Up After Pundits Sep. 07, 2016
Being a muckracking political writer often makes me feel like a custodian in a horse barn, constantl... Read More
Hillary's Untrustworthy Temperament Sep. 07, 2016
NBC "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd began his pundit-panel segment on Sept. 4 by remarking: "Nobody... Read More
About That Election Sep. 07, 2016
There is an election tape playing somewhere in the background. I hear it in snippets on the radio or... Read More
Trump & the Hillarycons Sep. 06, 2016
In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly of Alton, Illinois, mother of six, wrote and published a slim volume entit... Read More
