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It was not a good week for the GOP

It kind of ended well. Otherwise, it was a bumpy ride, a frightful and frightening week for Republicans.“I failed to do my due diligence,” Jenna Ellis said in an Atlanta courtroom. “... I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse.”What Ellis viewed with such retrospective ...

With the world on fire, it’s Joe time

On Air Force One, while flying from Tel Aviv back to Washington, D.C., early Thursday morning, President Joe Biden paid a rare call to the plane’s press section.Having shed a business suit for a casual zippered sweater for the 14-hour hour flight home, Biden told the reporters that “not ...

Happy birthday to me!

Tomorrow will be my 75th birthday.Oh, my.I’ve been alive (and kicking) for 27,393 days.That’s a lot.When I was 11, I thought anybody in their 70s was, well, old.Now that I’m in my 70s – and on my way to my 80s – I don’t feel as old as I thought I would.But I do feel old.When I was ...

Rusted out Joe makes himself heard

Actions speak louder than words, but words are important, too, especially when they come from a president.In recent days, President Joe Biden has delivered two resounding addresses, one dealing with the crisis in the Middle East, the other with the crisis of democracy at home.Both statements ...

Trump’s long line of detractors keeps growing

Nobody seems to be as liked but disliked or loved but hated as much as Donald Trump.His hold on the Republican Party is never in dispute. He’s simply a rock star to many Republicans.He’s also created a long list of enemies among the many people who’ve worked for and with him over the ...

McCarthy’s ouster and the road ahead

The House of Representatives was on the verge of a governing majority last week. And then it wasn’t. The gulf between the two parties was too great and antagonisms between lawmakers too severe to admit to real cooperation.Thus, Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the speakership by eight renegade ...