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My ballpark estimate: In the recently concluded midterm campaign season, Democrats ran roughly eleventy-bajillion ads accusing Republican office-holders of voting — 98%, 99% or 100% of the time — “with Donald Trump.” Calling your opponent a “rubber stamp” is a smart tactic when ...
To the editor: For most of our Earth’s history, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have ranged between 180 and 280 parts per million. When CO2 levels were around 280 parts per million, the corresponding Earth temperature could sustain life. When CO2 levels were around 180 ...
After former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, was being urged by Democrats to name Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as his vice-presidential running mate in the 1964 election. Problem was, Johnson despised Kennedy, and was going to make him his ...
An especially repellant political race is about to fade from the headlines. It would have been less ugly had more politicians traded invective for wit. Humor can take the edge off while retaining the bite. “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand,” Mark Twain said. Clever ...
Everything that goes around comes around — just not always in the correct order. That was proven on Sunday by the blankety-blank No. 6. The horses indeed went all the way around the track at Eureka Downs, but I never could quite get them to come around in the right order. I lost a $1 ...
MAGA influencers got a bit worked up last week after former President Barack Obama mocked President Donald Trump’s gold-gold-gold-heavy Oval Office. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovation,” Obama jibed about the questionable redecoration Trump ...
