For all his depth, a mark of Abraham Lincoln’s greatness was a deep humility. When saluted by Union volunteers in 1864, he remarked that he was “exceedingly obliged to you for this mark of respect.” He continued, “It is said that we have the best government world ever…
DetailsSince nothing that Donald Trump says can be taken seriously except as work for bone-weary fact-checkers, I didn’t take seriously his recent call for the creation of a sixth branch of the military: Space Farce. Now I acknowledge that I should have taken Space…
DetailsFor the Party of Trump, it’s just a misty memory now – a celebration way back there in June. Republican Karen Handel had barely edged out Democrat Jon Ossoff for a vacant suburban Atlanta seat in Congress. It was the first special election watched nationwide to see how…
DetailsJim Acosta did his job. It’s clear, even after two years, that Donald Trump does not understand his own. The CNN reporter asked the president about his “invasion” terminology of a bedraggled caravan hundreds of miles from our borders – justification for an election-eve rousting of enlisted…
DetailsGnats. That’s what experts at crime scenes call gawkers who suddenly appear to leer at the event. Timothy McVeigh, later to commit his own horrible crime in Oklahoma City, was a gnat at the scene of the Branch Davidian tragedy outside of Waco. So was budding conspiracy monger Alex…
DetailsIt was a bad day for President Fear and the folks at Fox News. They had planned jointly to set pheromones aflame with high-decibel sounds about a caravan of people headed to our borders from Honduras. Oh, my: people in brown skin coming to do terrible things…
DetailsWherever the Republican Party’s demographics were going before Trump, they have become, in the words of Procol Harum, a whiter shade of pale. Before Trump, the pallor of the Grand Old Party was one of those unspoken conditions, like Granddad’s nose hairs. Now its overt whiteness and overt racism have become…
DetailsWait, Florida Gov. Rick Scott: On whose information did you rely? You told Floridians to expect catastrophic storm surges from Hurricane Michael, as high as 12 feet. That proved to be correct. But where did you get that? Could it have been people who study weather? Or was…
DetailsIn Colorado, where polls show Democrat Jared Polis leading the governor’s race, Republican Walker Stapleton has all sorts of names for him: socialist, radical, dangerous. Polis’s ads, by contrast, have just this for his rival: “Trump’s yes man.” That should do. Indeed, such word association is working…
DetailsI used to think that the way Texas seated judges was the worst. Last week, watching the steam pour from Brett Kavanaugh ears, I changed my mind. Our nation’s founders had what appeared to be a great idea – lifetime, presumably nonpartisan, appointments based on Senate confirmation.…
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