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Sinema departs Democratic Party

Leaving aside any possible undeclared motives for leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an Independent, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has said some things that have needed to be said for a long time. In an op-ed for The Arizona Republic, Sinema wrote, “Americans are told that we have ...

Downward spiral of disgraceful misconduct

When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, he responded in writing. “The answer was not very gracious,” writes historian ...

On ending a lifetime of writing about politics

WASHINGTON — After more than 45 years of writing a daily syndicated newspaper column against deadline, at age 95 my time has come to retire. I’m leaving the task to younger journalists who will enjoy the close association I had all those years, sitting silently in the backseat of the cars ...

Emphatic ‘yes’ to killer robots

In the mid-1990s, Cyberdyne Systems Corporation created an artificial intelligence-based defense system called Skynet. When the system achieved self-awareness on August 29, 1997, it decided that humanity was the enemy and precipitated a devastating nuclear war. And that’s pretty much why ...

Right badly in need of Hunter Biden

The right is positively giddy over the so-called Twitter files. House Republicans called a press conference to declare that their very top priority will be investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop. Rep. Elise Stefanik promised in July that if given the majority, Republicans would get ...