A few years ago I met a woman who told me that she was scheduled to speak at a business convention in Las Vegas, but cancelled her engagement when she learned that the venue was the Trump International Hotel. “To …
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Evaluating Trump
An old classmate of mine asks, “Doesn’t Trump get some credit for Israel? The current lunatic favors Iran.” Re: the U.S. policy on the Middle East, I don’t know enough to address your question. I’ve read, from Canada-based CTV News, …
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Does Ben Carson REALLY Want My Thoughts on Education?
My #1 thought about American education is that Ben Carson can only worsen it further. A reader, Margaret Morris, asks: How do you improve education? I respond: Though I’m not an expert, here are three ideas. 1) Proper funding for …
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Expressing Conservative Ideas on College Campuses
Many conservatives are upset that only liberal ideas are presented on college campuses. My view: As in most cases, this is a gray issue. If you take, for example, the subject of affirmative action, which is as alive today as …
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Trump 2024?
In its quest to generate and retain our attention, the American news media continues to remind us that Trump could be re-elected U.S. president in 2024. As proof they offer the fact that he’s far ahead in the polls taken …
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Comparing the Republicans and Democrats
We commonly hear that the two major American political parties are virtually indistinguishable from one another, and perhaps that was true a few decades ago when centrism was the rule of the day. But, as illustrated in the meme here, …
Does the Whole Planet Hate Trump?
Sadly, no. If I had to take a guess as to the percentage of the world’s people, 10 years old and up, who “hate” Trump in some sense, I would say: Americans: 65% Those living in other developed countries: 85% …
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Trump Is “Fake,” But That’s Not the Problem
Being a fake human being is certainly not what we want in a U.S. president. Yet the reason we need Trump out of our lives and behind bars isn’t his spray-tan, but rather his criminality.
Explaining Trump’s Behavior Re: the Documents
The judge here makes an excellent point, which raises the question: Why were these documents so valuable to Trump that he would force the Justice Department to indict him? I’m not given to make speculations that I cannot prove, but the …
What Kind of Pathological Liar Is Trump?
I’ll take a stab at answering yet another rhetorical question, this one posed by Lawrence O’Donnell. He’s a pathological liar for whom lying is as natural as breathing for you and me. Lying has taken Trump to the very top …
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