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How Books Help Us Cope While Learning About the World
Last week I met a man struggling to understand the world and his place in it. We'll call him Bo. Bo's having marital problems and is contemplating divorce. My husband has been spending time to help him sort through it. While talking with Bo, it was obvious that this man doesn't know who he is.
The worst part is that it's how he was raised.
By ...Read more
The Amish Are Better Than You
The Amish are better than you. They're better than me, too.
This is because the Amish make furniture.
For the last couple years, every time I turn the television on, there's a commercial from a local retailer telling me they sell "Amish furniture."
"Experience the craftsmanship of the Amish," the announcer's deep voice says. Then the ad ...Read more
Bill Press: This election is already rigged against Kamala Harris!
Sure, it’s a cold day in Hell when I’d ever agree with Donald Trump on anything. But I must admit, he’s right about this. He’s right when he says the election is rigged. Except he’s got it backward.
Yes, the 2024 election is rigged. But it’s not rigged against Donald Trump. It’s actually rigged in his favor – because of ...Read more
Trump Probably Doesn't Give a Damn About IVF
Donald Trump said he wants the government or insurers to pay for in vitro fertilization treatments. For those lacking coverage, the American taxpayer would presumably pick up the entire cost.
Then, just this week, House Republicans blocked a bill that would have guaranteed a basic right -- never mind who's paying -- to IVF treatments across ...Read more
The Blame Game
The blame game is in full swing, and Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, are the ones using inflammatory rhetoric to fan the flames. "He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," Trump said of the gunman hiding on his golf course. "Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to ...Read more
The Fall of Donald Trump
It's over for you, Donald Trump.
America can't go on like this -- don't you feel it too? The breaking point came during the debate with Kamala Harris. After nine years, your dangerous duel with democracy is done.
Something to do with Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs was a bridge too far even for your ugly dark vision. The ...Read more
The Battle of Baraboo -- Privatizer Greed v. Seniors' Health Care
Baraboo, Wisconsin, is known as the former home of the Ringling Bros. Circus' headquarters. But even that extravaganza of acrobats and clowns could not surpass the dazzling tent show playing out in Baraboo this month, starring the Sauk County Board of Supervisors. Only ... you couldn't have seen it, because the tent was zipped tight to keep ...Read more
Why Kamala Harris Must Break the Cycle of Unlawful and Abusive Government Surveillance
Since this nation's founding, the executive branch has been granted -- or has claimed -- immense power to enforce the law, including the power to surveil, investigate and impose criminal or other sanctions that deprive individuals of their freedoms.
We're calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to break this cycle if she's elected in November...Read more
End Game: The Carnival Barker Loses His Marbles
Donald Trump's surrogates faced something of a challenge in the aftermath of last week's presidential debate, obliged to insist that things had gone well for him, all evidence to the contrary. And there was plenty of contrary evidence provided by the former president's responses to questions posed by the moderators, as Kamala Harris displayed ...Read more
Crazy Talk, Crazy People and Guns Everywhere
One evening, just over a week ago, I was walking in Midtown Manhattan when dozens of police cars, sirens blasting, lights flashing, descended on the area. Cops cut off entire avenues to traffic. Soon a phalanx of police vehicles, followed by a column of identical black SUVs, whooshed past red lights.
They were taking former president Donald ...Read more
Trump’s Hate is No Joke
The second apparent attempt on Trump’s life — yesterday at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida — occurred just over two months after he was wounded during an attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” Trump said after the first attempt. “I’m just ...Read more
Harris Makes the Most of Her Chances, While Trump Phones It In
Many, many moons ago, my family elders advised me: “Son, prepare yourself, because you never know when the doors of opportunity are going to open up. And when they do, you need to be ready to step inside.”
That was good advice, although I didn't immediately take it to heart. I had to learn the hard way that walking through those doors meant...Read more
Does Donald Trump Really Believe He Won the Debate?
Ever since he walked into the "spin room" at the conclusion of Tuesday night's debate, Donald Trump has been claiming that he won the debate. Does he really believe that? Are his advisers so cowed, or delusional themselves, that they are feeding his own delusions? And what does that say about them -- and him?
The overnight polls -- the ...Read more
Millions Have No Home. You Don't Need Two.
Responding to polls that show that voters are worried and angry about the high cost of housing, both major parties are floating plans to make buying a home more affordable. Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats want to encourage new housing construction and subsidize first-time homebuyers by $25,000, which economists worry would have ...Read more
Exploiting Fear Is What They Do
Of all the falsehoods, evasions and plainly loony remarks by former President Donald Trump during his ill-fated debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, perhaps it was to be expected that his ridiculous lie about the endangered pets of Springfield, Ohio, would go super viral.
While the Republican candidate declared himself the winner "by a ...Read more
The Second Amendment Is the Hill We Are Literally Willing To Die On
Gun violence is not just an urban issue. As rural community members along I-75 near Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky say things like "this is unheard of here" after a gunman shot at cars driving on the highway, they are forced to grapple with the fact that this American atrocity has found their door.
Gun violence does happen there. It ...Read more
Old Girlfriends and Donald Trump
The funniest, or the saddest, thing about this week's presidential debate is that it occurred the night before Sept. 11, a holy holiday of death that's been forgotten by everyone except politicians looking to be seen at the remembrance ceremony, firefighters, unindicted police officers and the families of the dead, whose aching sadness cannot ...Read more
After Debate, Election is Over – or Should Be
You can bet the farm on this one: In every future campaign, for any office, political strategists will prep candidates for campaign debates by having them watch one video and one video only: Kamala Harris’ performance against Donald Trump.
On Sept. 10, Harris not only destroyed Trump, she gave a master class in political debate. Rule #1: ...Read more
After Debate, Section is Over – or Should Be
You can bet the farm on this one: In every future campaign, for any office, political strategists will prep candidates for campaign debates by having them watch one video and one video only: Kamala Harris’ performance against Donald Trump.
On Sept. 10, Harris not only destroyed Trump, she gave a master class in political debate. Rule #1: ...Read more
Nurse Harris Ratcheted It Up on Trump
As we tuned into the big debate, the Trump camp was peddling the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people's dogs and cats. When the debate turned to the subject of immigration, Donald Trump jumped on that hallucination without prompt.
"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs!" he howled. "The people who came, ...Read more