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So, Barack and Bubba decided they needed to hand out for awhile ...

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“So, Bill, check this out. You know Hillary was in deep voodoo — over the unsecured server in her basement, right? I mean, we’re talking slam dunk violation of the Espionage Act — maybe even jail time — because, you know, she sent and received classified documents. Who DOES that?! I know. I know. “You probably told her not to do it — and she did it anyway. I mean, I worked with her as my secretary of state, so you don’t need to tell me what the woman is like. “Now, I don’t need to tell you. She was in SERIOUS trouble. Some backbiters were going to the press ...

There’s an awful lot we can be thankful for

Columns

In 2006, a few days before Christmas, doctors announced my wife had six months to live. She had, they said, a rare form of cancer that had spread to her lungs. There was really nothing that could be done. We had a one-year-old and I had been told my job was coming to an end the same day of the diagnosis. Thankfully, it was a misdiagnosis. Not only did I keep my job, but I kept my wife. Ten years later, doctors informed my wife they suspected she had a genetic form of lung cancer. Had my wife not been misdiagnosed in 2006, they would not have known about her lung cancer in 2016. My ...

Give this Tuesday

Editorials

You’ve made it through Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Artists Sunday and Cyber Monday. It’s a long series of days on which businesses big and small and even some individuals are hoping you’ll be spending some (or all) of your holiday shopping budget with them. Now we have reached Giving Tuesday, a day organizers say “unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world.” Sure, there’s a financial component to this, too. Those who have the resources should, indeed, take advantage of today to give what they are able to nonprofits that support the most ...

Cheney’s funeral serves as a reminder

Columns

In an America presently diseased by crudeness and cruelty, the scene at Washington’s National Cathedral for the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney was a welcome display of grace by leaders who embrace an ethos currently out of vogue. It’s an ethos of bipartisanship, of respect for public service. It’s an ethos of affirming human decency, of affirming democracy itself — regardless of sharp political differences. Fierce political enemies of Cheney’s and of one another came to church to pay homage not only to Cheney’s career spent trying to defend America as he ...

A failing grade for DOE

Editorials

U.S. Department of Education officials missed the mark badly when they decided, purportedly in a revision that is part of the Big Beautiful Bill, to eliminate nursing, physical therapy, public health and other fields from those graduate study fields in which students are able to borrow loans up to the cost of their degree. Those programs are not, in the opinion of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., “professional.” In fact, only the following fields are now defined as professional programs, according to the Education Department: pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, ...

This plan would mean we lose and they win

Columns

In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan was asked by a reporter during the summit in Moscow what his goal was in the Cold War, he said: “We win, they lose.” When it comes to today’s Russia and its unprovoked war with Ukraine, President Trump’s goal at least in practice and outcome appears to be “we lose, they win.” The president had given Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy until Thanksgiving Day to accept his “peace proposal” which reads as if it could have been written by Vladimir Putin. In fact, according to news reports, it may have been. It seems to align ...