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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, ...

Republicans hatch a plan

Orrin Hatch should be ashamed of himself.The Republican Senator from Utah has become the poster boy for boldfaced hypocrisy.Twenty-seven years ago, in October 1991, he was one of the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who ran interference for Supreme Court nominee Clarence ...