09/22/22
What do I do with all my stuff? Kathy’s answer: chuck it. Difficult to bring myself to do. I’ve always been a saver. Ten years ago I wrote about the [...]
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Posted September 22, 2022in Morain
Posted September 15, 2022in Morain
09/15/22
For ages, Americans have demonstrated their fascination with British royalty. Maybe it’s because we don’t possess that institution ourselves. Maybe it’s a result of our childhood stories about kings, queens, [...]
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Posted September 01, 2022in Morain
09/01/22
Many Donald Trump supporters—maybe most of them—decry as a political hit job the FBI’s search for sensitive government documents at Trump’s golf resort/home at Mar-a-Lago. President Biden, they claim, ordered [...]
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Posted August 25, 2022in Morain
08/25/22
We’re only about 1½ weeks shy of Labor Day, the unofficial starting point of the general election campaign. Of course, candidates and their teams have been campaigning for many months [...]
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Posted August 08, 2022in Morain
08/11/22
U.S. Senate Democrats passed their omnibus Inflation Reduction Act last Sunday 51 to 50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. They did so under so-called “reconciliation” rules, [...]
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Posted August 04, 2022in Morain
08/04/22
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) on Wednesday of last week announced they had reached agreement on a comprehensive economic policy bill [...]
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Posted July 26, 2022in Morain
Republicans and Democrats are in a fog
Independent voters appear to hold the key to the direction of the nation. Lots of fog around these days. Like the one that took over my brain during my recent [...]
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Posted July 07, 2022in Morain
07/07/22
America celebrated its independence again this past Monday, marking 246 years of national freedom. Every important U.S. holiday bears its unique celebratory hallmark, regardless of the original reason (religious or [...]
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Posted June 28, 2022in Morain
06/28/22
For 50 years abortion was a legal choice for American women. Then last week the U.S. Supreme Court, overturning its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, ruled 5 to 4 that [...]
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Posted June 21, 2022in Morain
Has political extremism reached its extreme yet?
The deepening of political extremism in the United States grows increasingly more evident. Moderation and bipartisanship shrink as progressives and conservatives move toward their respective corners of the political spectrum. [...]
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