Nov 09 2017
With Paul Manafort’s indictment, Donald Trump is done By Garrison Keillor, Tuesday 31 October 2017 08:13 GMT When his old campaign manager was indicted Monday, Mr Trump called me on the phone, crying like a baby, and begged me to endorse him. I said, “You’re already President, Mr President. You were elected.” He said, …
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Nov 06 2017
Why I’m no longer talking to God about gun sprees after the Texas shooting By Grace Dent, Monday 6 November 2017 17:36 GMT After the killing on Sunday of 26 members of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County, shot dead in the middle of a church service, I am calling …
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Nov 03 2017
A Tax Plan for a New Gilded Age By the New York Times Editorial Board, November 2, 2017 With their new bill that would slash taxes on the wealthy and blow up the federal budget deficit, House Republicans and President Trump are making it absolutely clear whom they are working for — the top …
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Oct 23 2017
Dear editor: When someone is lying and doing a bunch of crooked stuff and you know they’re lying and doing a bunch of crooked stuff and you’re OK with them lying and doing a bunch of crooked stuff, well, don’t expect a great outcome. Hillary — maybe that’s “what happened.” Why didn’t the NFL …
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Oct 18 2017
Remarks by Senator John McCain at 2017 Liberty Medal ceremony October 16, 2017 “Thank you, Joe, my old, dear friend, for those mostly undeserved kind words. Vice President Biden and I have known each other for a lot of years now, more than forty, if you’re counting. We knew each other back when …
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Oct 17 2017
Dear editor, Back in the late 1960s, Simon and Garfunkel sang the question, “What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson?” In 2017, that simple question is answered week after week, as the same ilky rabble of letter writers, merry contrarians all, stain these pages with their regressive nonsense. Murderer. Killer. Socialist. Muslim. Mexican. Terrorist. There’s …
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Oct 06 2017
Let’s be honest about the Second Amendment By Matthew Walther, October 6, 2017 The Second Amendment clearly and definitively does not say what so many gun-rights absolutists in America claim it does. This is interesting when you consider conservatives’ otherwise consistent adherence to constitutional originalism. Consider, for instance, that one of the soundest, if …
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