I would like to take a moment to draw attention to a very important event – National Home Care & Hospice Month, which occurs each November. Today, over 57 percent of Americans are providing unpaid care to a friend or loved one, or have in the past. This work is one of the most stressful […]
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Obamacare troubles a gift to 2016 GOP candidates
There have been many articles in the last year with some variation of the headline “GOP Surrenders on Obamacare.” The stories mostly concern a tendency among some Republican policy elites to adopt the Washington conventional wisdom that Obamacare cannot be repealed because it has already become deeply entrenched in American life. Those Republicans might want […]
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The Bulletin (Conn.), Nov. 19: Last week’s terrorist attack on Paris was an apt demonstration of the cruelty and violence from which Syrians are fleeing en masse, seeking refuge in Western nations. Yet for leaders twisted by cynicism and bigotry, it’s being used to exploit Americans’ fears, turning them against compassion for innocent victims. Numerous […]
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We need courage, not fear
Following the savage attacks in Paris, the only people doing better than ISIS terrorists at manipulating Americans into acting against their security interests are U.S. politicians. The scramble to duck and cover from Syrian war refugees that we are witnessing recalls the famous line from the comic strip “Pogo”: “We have met the enemy, and […]
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The road most traveled
Have you ever rested at a rest stop? I haven’t. I can’t imagine a worse place to rest than a rest stop. We all know what we do at a rest stop and it has nothing to do with resting. If you tried resting at a rest stop, they’d probably kick you out or arrest […]
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Clinton in commanding position, but must overcome obstacles
No candidate in decades has been in as strong a position to win a major-party nomination as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not since Richard Nixon in 1960 breezed to his appointment with destiny in Chicago has a presidential contender had so easy a time advancing to the finals in presidential politics. Which […]
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The Republican (Mass.), Nov. 13: If you are old enough to remember when the Republican Party bragged of having a “big tent,” with room for many people with diverse views, you are getting plenty old indeed. There used to be several brands of conservatism. There were fiscal conservatives and social conservatives and conservatives who focused […]