Trump Guilty on All Counts. How Will Voters React?
Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a $130,000
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Game Changer? I mean, c’mon
Lately I’ve noticed two terms, short, two-word phrases that are uttered in nearly every conversation on television. Starting a sentence
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Letters To Jim, February 2024: What is a Woman and Who is Winning the Culture Wars?
February may be a short month, but there is no shortage of mail to respond to, so let’s get right
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Becoming a Swifty All Over Again
The rabid right wing echo chamber did something remarkable. Because they went ape shit over Taylor Swift getting so many
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Getting Older and Closer to Another Election
A couple notable events occurred in my life recently. #1: I completed another trip around the sun with relatively few
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Taking Note of a Few Things: The Coaches, Dogs, and more Complaints Edition
In less than one day, the sports world saw the end of three great football coaches. Pete Carroll of the
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Missing the Point: Our National Debt
As of this writing, the national debt of the United States – money our country has borrowed to cover expenses
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January Letters to Jim: 2024 elections, Trump (of course), Chico and New Year’s Hangovers
If you are reading this, congratulations for surviving 2023 and welcome to another new year. I don’t usually make a
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Missing the Point: Who do Republicans think they’re kidding with immigration?
Happy New Year, everybody. “Thoughtless bigots, politically self-centered officeholders stoking and playing to the fears of otherwise well-meaning Americans who
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Missing the Point: Using the God Excuse
Whatever you believe, or don’t believe, with respect to any particular God or religion, the one thing about which we
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