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Obesity, fatty foods, death and science
Something is killing us — beyond the fact that life itself is a terminal condition. This week brought news that the U.S.…
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Fidel Castro: 60 years of fake news
A panic is sweeping the land — or at least something like it has unnerved CNN, Vox and other precincts of progressive sensibility.…
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Undermining our system
Because of what came later — Donald Trump's refusal to say whether he'd accept the results of the election…
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Child care proposals: Be like Sweden?
There may be valid criticisms of the Trump (Ivanka as much as Donald) child care proposal, but The New York Times and…
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Hillary Clinton’s felonious friends in Virginia
Terry McAuliffe is a Hillary Clinton pal. He fronted $1.3 million for her house in Chappaqua, New York. We should all…
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Not the way to do minority outreach
In the nanosecond between Donald Trump's foot-in-mouth moments last week, just before he made headlines by announcing changes…
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Why I am not a Cruzite
Ted Cruz's electrifying performance at the 2016 Republican National Convention will be long remembered, and deservedly so. At a critical…
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Why do they hate Hillary Clinton?
"Why do people hate Hillary Clinton so much?" a reporter from the Canadian Broadcasting Company asked me this week. I…
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Obama: Whose side is he on?
Whole doctoral dissertations could be devoted to the question of what makes President Obama angry and what does not. His Tuesday broadside…
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What the Stanford rape case reveals
The phone has been ringing off the hook at Judge Aaron Persky's chambers at the Santa Clara County court for…
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Should ‘Never Trump’ people get over it?
Washington state's Republican Party just defied the stampede toward "unity." Meeting over the weekend, they awarded 40 of…
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EgyptAir’s fate and ours
EgyptAir Flight 804 — carrying 66 people, including three children — departed from Paris on Wednesday night. Just before it was scheduled to land…
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Hands off the ladies’ rooms
If it concerns sex in any way, you can be sure that our culture will fixate on it and manage to defy…
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Run against Obama
When a Republican has been in the presidency for eight years, as George W. Bush was, Democrats run against the Republicans. When…
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Republican self-sabotage
The latest CBS poll suggests that the Donald Trump juggernaut continues to roll, with 35 percent of Republicans supporting him. Ted Cruz,…
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An open letter to Jeb Bush
Dear Gov. Bush: There are many ways to express your love of country. One is to serve as president. In your case,…
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What’s a party for?
What is a political party? By the intensity of internecine conflict among Republicans, you might conclude that it's a church.…
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’13 Hours’: our Benghazi failure COLUMN
A new movie that touches upon the election prospects of one female candidate for president debuts this week. Will "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" provoke thousands of angry viewers to march on Hillary Clinton's home with torchlights and pitchforks?
