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Anyone can and is entitled to change their mind.  Neil Young urged it and Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin” of little ones – bringing to mine the thought that this president is possessed of a petty and easily distracted, if not...

For post-Trump America to emerge mostly intact, which is likely but not certain, we must walk and chew gum at the same time.  Support or opposition for the president’s act of war against the government of Syria shouldn’t eliminate or even defer opposition to all the...

Trump’s presidency has already induced writers for television series like Homeland and Billions to incorporate Trumpian themes into their scripts.  Serious artistic interpretations of this national crisis, that history will mark among America’s most perilous, may come...

Admit it, I have.  More than a few times in the last several months you have thought “I hope when TrumpCare passes, his supporters lose their ObamaCare policies and experience how little is covered under their new health insurance, if any.”  Then the mind conjured a...

We keep hearing and reading how polished, nimble and skillful Judge Gorsuch was in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.  One NPR reporter even likened him to God – at least with respect to voice – that SHE either must have heard or assumes to...

Like many liberals and conservatives, your blogger is a longstanding and card carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union and contributor of money and sweat toward its efforts.  I constantly tell my civil liberties class how often the ACLU was and is a...