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The next presidential election is still almost a year from now, so we’ll have to wait a considerable length of time to see what happens. This is good news for the media, though it’s no minor disease for the mental …

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I wouldn’t say Sarah Palin is crazy.  Inept, to be sure, but she doesn’t seem mentally ill. What we have now with the Republicans, however, is indeed a brand of criminal insanity.  If you doubt this, consider for a moment …

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Yes, the meme here represents a profound contrast between the character of two different U.S. presidents, separated by 50 years. But let’s keep this in mind: being a vulgar slob, even the greatest among the 46 U.S. presidents, is not …

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Re: the meme here, a reader notes: If you don’t think Nikki Haley and Joe Biden would split the non-MAGA vote, you’re not paying attention. Personally I think it would be more likely that Nikki Haley and Trump would split …

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Michael Fanone worked for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia from 2001 until his retirement following the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. What he says here I find interesting. Two points: MAGA congresspeople appear to …

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Here’s a reminder that we can have both a working Second Amendment and a ban on weapons of war.

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Obviously, there are reasons that we’re still talking about Marcus Aurelius 2000 years after his death–and here’s one of them. He seems to have possessed an ability to think rationally and without prejudice.  He would have made a very bad …

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Here’s David Letterman’s suggestion to this effect. I would simply add that the “home” needs to have bars on its windows and doors.

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One would think that the list of demographics that would refuse to vote for Trump is so large that the former president would be hard-put to get more than about 30% of the popular vote in the general election. Think …

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But he’s sane, competent, and decent. That’s quite a contrast.

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