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Health care candor: A top Republican gives away the game
As Senate Republicans gear up for one last college try to destroy Obamacare (because it has Obama’s name on it) and to thus imperil ...
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Vietnam: The war that was waged in my head
In the winter of my 13th year, I made a momentous life decision. I marched into my parents’ suburban kitchen and declared that when ...
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The GOP’s medical credo: ‘First, do harm’
So here we go again with the Republican quest to wreck the health care coverage of tens of millions of Americans. If you’re sick of ...
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Hillary’s Wall Street talks: ‘I shouldn’t have assumed it would be OK’
In 1977, three years out of power, Richard Nixon catalogued his self-inflicted Watergate mistakes. Referring to his political opponents, ...
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Hillary is right about the mainstream media
Hillary Clinton’s new cri de coeur discomfits the many Democrats who yearn to put 2016 in the rea ...
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Trump, Sessions, and stupidity lessons
Mark Twain reputedly said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ...
8 years ago
Since when is it a ‘fireable offense’ to knock a president?
There I was yesterday, all set to spoon out a dollop of praise for Trump, who reportedly plans to sign a newly passed congressional resol ...
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An ignorant America endangers democracy
Donald Trump famously declared, “I love the poorly educated!” and w ...
8 years ago
Hey, Hillary, we already know what happened
Al Franken said it well last spring: “I love Hillary … and I think she has a right to analyze what happened. But we do have t ...
8 years ago
In Florida, climate change denier Rick Scott can’t connect the dots
How horrifying it has been to track one of America's dire natural disasters. I'm referring to Florida governor Rick Scott.
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Seriously, THIS is what Trump’s allies are angry about?
Trump’s Republican and conservative allies are “ ...
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Fact-checking Trump’s most taxing serial lie
If we can agree that one definition of insanity is the impulse to utter the same idiocy over and over, then I’ll offer these items ...
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