Before Donald Trump was born, I was attending school taught by nuns and Christian brothers. We were told only God has never sinned. If my educators were living today, they would be amazed that another person by his own words told us he never asked God’s forgiveness, because he never did anything wrong. Married three […]
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A Hull of a trip that’ll be tough to forget
The trip to Hull, Massachusetts, sounded perfect. I had been invited down by a good friend, and on two days when the rest of my family was going to be otherwise occupied. The weather looked good, and the only person needing to prepare for this trip was me. What could go wrong? But given my […]
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Trump campaign a lesson in bad faith
Before Donald Trump was born, I was attending school taught by nuns and Christian brothers. We were told only God has never sinned. If my educators were living today, they would be amazed that another person by his own words told us he never asked God’s forgiveness, because he never did anything wrong. Married three […]
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Citizen-initiated ballot questions are often the result of big money not popular demand
There will be 5 citizen-initiated referendum questions on the ballot this November. I urge you to review these questions carefully, understanding their full implications. One of the concerns I have always had with these types of initiated questions is that they never get the scrutiny of a public hearing, public debate and fiscal analysis as […]
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Will Donald last all the way to the election?
The question isn’t so much if Donald Trump can win the election as whether or not he’ll still be the GOP candidate come November. Nobody can predict what mad trajectory the Republican nominee’s campaign might take. But given Trump’s erratic, politically self-destructive behavior, it’s reasonable to suspect he might get forced out or quit in […]
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Politics tarnish any Olympic medals
There are three major political events this summer. Three? Yes, there were the two national political conventions. But there’s also the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. It should take our minds off politics for a couple of weeks, but it is a highly political event. In fact, the Olympics may be the most political event of […]
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A cure worse than the disease
One of the most important political events of the summer took place in a federal courtroom in Virginia last week. There, a three-judge panel unanimously rejected several North Carolina laws that were deliberately designed, they found, to reduce the strength of African- American voters. North Carolina has emerged as a critical swing state with a […]