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One more try at reducing the debt

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”- Polonius to his son Laertes in “Hamlet” It may be too late given the number of Americans who have willingly allowed themselves to become dependent on government more than themselves, but it’s worth trying. Our $34 trillion debt is ...

For the beneficiaries, losing Obamacare would be disaster

Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What got his fingers fumbling on the keyboard was Joe Biden’s being out in the country warning Americans that another presidential term for Trump would cost them their health care. Trump wrote, ...

Today’s leaders are not living up to constitutional norms

How are America’s leaders measuring up against the standards set by the Constitution and the examples of the Founding Fathers? It’s a question I’ve been asking as I seek refuge from contemporary politics in reading and occasionally writing, in my 2023 book “Mental Maps of the ...

Thank God for the internal combustion engine

One of Joe Biden’s notable digressions when getting deposed by Special Counsel Robert Hur was about driving his beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible. Which wasn’t surprising — the president genuinely loves his car. And why not? It’s a thing of beauty and, for its time, was a ...

Taking Easter seriously something we should do

“That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British governance, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...

Haiti’s tragic history keeps repeating itself

In Haiti, history repeats itself — repeatedly. And for what remains of Haiti’s troubled government, history seems to keep getting worse. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and Kenyan President William Ruto signed an agreement in early March to fast-track a long-delayed deployment of ...