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All the Best Word Salad

<em>鈥淚 went to an Ivy League school. I鈥檓 very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words.鈥</em>Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, Dec. 30, 2015President Trump once told the American people that he knew the 鈥渂est words鈥, and he hinted he knew ...

An asymmetrical history

鈥淚n the waning decades of the 20th century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as a matter of law-and-order than as a matter of life-and-death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom, or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How ...

The Comedy stylings of Donald Trump

President Trump is a self-made billionaire -- if you believe him. I don鈥檛.There鈥檚 that extensive New York Times report that provides some proof that Trump is no more a self-made billionaire than I am. For the record, I鈥檓 not one.That 14,000-word report not only demystifies Donald Trump ...

U.S. Supreme Court musings

Imagine we are a few years down the road and Brett Kavanaugh is sitting on the Supreme Court.The court, after hearing a case touching on a woman鈥檚 right to an abortion, overturns Roe vs. Wade, the bedrock abortion decision decided by the high court in the early 1970s.With Kavanaugh as the ...

Who鈥檚 laughing now

<em>鈥淲e need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!鈥</em><em>Donald J. Trump, tweet on Aug. 9, 2014</em>Last Tuesday, President Trump had his ...

The end of an institution

Destroyed by fire in 1988, the Uniontown Country Club mansion lingers in the imagination: its simple white grandeur suggesting a certain Long Island estate, the golf course itself a lush sweep of lawn; its twinkling illumination on summer nights insinuating fireworks popping like corks, ...