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It’s no time for nicknames

President Trump is hard at work.He’s made giving people nicknames a full-time job.He’s a septuagenarian stuck on a grade school playground.Trump seems to think that by tacking nicknames onto people, he owns them in some way.He engages in that kind of nonsense more than you may ...

Riley the dog was one swell pooch

Sometime before my mother died in 1996, I ran across a photograph of her and the family dog, a “wiener dog” Dachshund named Prince.He was suppose to be my dog, but he was mom’s, she took care of Prince. Everyday, until he died in the early ‘70s, Prince got a bowl of hamburger my mom ...

Trump‘s ‘Carnival of resistance’

It was a spectacular scene.A U.S. president was on foreign soil when his image appeared on a giant screen - and it ignited exuberant cheers.Twenty thousand people gave him a rousing standing ovation – with chants of “MVP” clearly audible.Of course, that was ex-President Barack Obama, who ...

Eyewitness to D-Day: no ‘bravado’

Among the first interviews Forrest Pogue conducted following the Allied invasion of Europe 75 years ago this week was with a 21-year old Texan, a corporal, who had been badly wounded.With a wife and three-month-old baby at home, the soldier grinned at the prospect of returning to the United ...

Trump: Happy Memorial Day?

President Trump might’ve been able to take a bow after he went to Japan, without managing to make a mess of things.Problem is, he made several messes of things.For instance, just before he left Japan on his way back home, he stopped at a U.S. military base.“I have to wish you all a very ...

Defeat Trump, don’t impeach him

The growing demand from the Democratic party’s left wing that Donald Trump face impeachment is a bad idea, not because the president hasn’t earned a place in the hall of presidential infamy. It’s because it shortchanges democracy and clutters the path to Trump’s eventual eviction from ...