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This guy’s pretty good

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Watch this video at Crooks and Liars of Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He’s obviously a long shot, but he’s quite impressive. It has been a pet peeve of mine for years that people in this country throw around the word “socialism” as if we all share a definition of that term, when in […]

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Random thoughts on 2020

Sunday, March 3, 2019

I don’t have a firm favorite for the 2020 Democratic nomination. I know who I don’t want to get it. That would be Kristin Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, and Amy Klochubar. I also don’t want Sherrod Brown, but for a different reason than the other three. We can’t afford to lose that Ohio Senate seat. Putting […]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Joe Biden sayshe’s the most qualified person in the country to be our next president. In my humble opinion, there are very few potential candidates that Trump could beat in 2020. Biden tops the list. Also, if there were a god, I’d be asking him (or her) to please preserve us from Hillary, who has been making […]

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Emails again

Friday, October 28, 2016

There is a tradition in this country. Don’t ask me why. It’s against the rules to have a Democratic Secretary of Defense, though sometimes that rule is observed in the breach. But it’s always against the rules to let a Democrat run the FBI, hence we have a Republican running the FBI at present, a […]

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The Great Debate, part 3

Sunday, October 23, 2016

For a number of reasons I won’t go into here, I watched last night’s debate, though I would have preferred to skip it. To a certain extent I’m not good at judging winners and losers, because I actually judge debates based on who makes more sense and who tells fewer lies, which is a criteria […]

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It’s the year 2000 all over again

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

It’s hardly a new observation to make, but it’s a fact that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Part of the problem, I suppose, is that those who live through history die off, and are replaced by people who think, for some reason, that things are now different. They […]

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Lovin Cruz

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Today’s Boston Globe has a mock edition of the paper, a sort of preview of what we might expect to be reading should Donald Trump be elected president. (Full disclosure: my son works at the Globe and likely worked on the mock edition) This is a worthy endeavor, but we must remember that each and […]

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What’s your poison, Trump or Cruz?

Thursday, April 7, 2016

This is hardly a scientific poll, but I would be willing to bet that were one to poll sane, informed people the results would be similar to what I’ve concluded. I have asked a number of people who they would choose if they knew that either Trump or Cruz would actually become president, moving to […]

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Goodbye, Little Marco

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

This morning I opened up the New London Day (always a depressing way to start the day), and soon found myself brought up short when I read this: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ended his once-promising campaign after his devastating home-state loss, so the GOP primary is now down to three candidates: Trump, Kasich and Texas […]

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Crying Wolf

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

We all know the fable of the little boy who cried “WOLF!”. One benefit he conferred on the villagers he fooled, which always goes unmentioned, is that until he was exposed as a liar, they undoubtedly took measures to protect themselves from the non-existent wolf. Had there been a real wolf, they would have been […]

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