Robert Mueller has finally spoken.President Trump can breathe easy.He is not going to jail; he probably won鈥檛 face impeachment; he can gloat all he likes -- "cause there really was no collusion!"It should be clear sailing toward the 2020 election.Whom am I trying to kid?Trump being Trump, and ...
<em>鈥淚 gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve. I don鈥檛 care about this. I didn鈥檛 get a thank you. That鈥檚 OK. We sent him on the way. But I wasn鈥檛 a fan of John McCain.鈥�</em>-- President Trump, in a speech in Lima, ...
All parents want what鈥檚 best for their children.Some parents want more than others.Those parents break laws, the rules of decency or both to give their kids an unfair help.A few years ago, I happened to ask a legendary high school basketball coach how the game had changed since he started ...
For Republicans, there is, indeed, a national emergency.They鈥檒l swear it could easily destroy America, while it lays waste to our way of life.This national emergency isn鈥檛 caused by anything sneaking north from Mexico.It started in the Bronx and Queens New York.Right-wingers don鈥檛 even ...
President Trump鈥檚 鈥渆x-fixer鈥� Michael Cohen has no reason to sing Trump鈥檚 praises.Trump frequently calls him a 鈥渞at.鈥漇o, when Cohen appeared before the House Oversight Committee for eight hours last Wednesday, he fired a barrage of carefully worded attacks aimed directly at the ego ...
Perspective?That鈥檚 what I was looking to find when I peeked at some of the columns I鈥檇 written for this space ten years ago.My how things have changed.I wrote notes for each of the hundreds of those columns (more than 600 of them) to help me form my opinions.For instance, in a note I wrote ...