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Intentional dementia

During Mother’s last few months, conversations were extremely difficult to follow because her mind seamlessly switched from one decade to another. Isaac Singer writes, “Sometimes she’d tangle one story with another and couldn’t find her way out” (In My Father’s Court). Within one statement, she would toggle between viewing me as a teenager in the […]

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Poison in our politics more than just presidents

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA — “Hillary Clinton is evil incarnate.” I remember where I was the first time I heard someone say this. I also remember the feelings of resistance, repulsion and sadness that were my reaction.  She’s not.  Look, I worked at the conservative National Review during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. That the Clintons aren’t models […]

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Editorial Roundup

Boston Herald (Mass.) Oct. 6, 2016 Where is it written in the Democratic playbook that rude works? Or that endless repetition of anti-Trump talking points during a seemingly endless vice presidential debate would be a winning strategy? Democrat Tim Kaine played the perfect little soldier in the service of his presidential running mate Hillary Clinton […]

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Editorial Roundup

Release your federal income tax returns, Mr. Trump. The American public deserves to know what you have been up to if they are to seriously consider electing you president. Allowing public inspection of the returns was the right thing to do before. All presidential candidates in the modern era have done so. But given the […]

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Boland responds to Woodsome

I introduced the first legislation to pass in the USA to provide for protecting the electric power grid against the devastating threats of one, an extreme solar storm, known as GMD or geomagnetic disturbance, or two, man-made electromagnetic pulse, known as EMP, weapon of an enemy country or terrorist. Either could cause a blackout lasting […]