My List
A few things I’d like to see happen in year that just began: Immediately, I’d like to see a reasonable measure of good health restored to the New England Patriots. Football is a brutal game, but this...
View ArticleA Bad Rerun
As I watched the Patriots season being extinguished Sunday amidst a flurry of bad passes, a flood of quarterback pressure and an infuriating sequence of puzzling play calls, I was overcome by a strong...
View ArticleAdvise and Reject
The sudden, shocking death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has thrown an extra truckful of intrigue to this year’s presidential race (as if it needed it). The Constitution gives the president...
View ArticleTrump: A Candidate For Our Times
Political figures often represent their times. Dwight D. Eisenhower summarized a era of post-war exhaustion mixed with industriousness. John F. Kennedy symbolized the “new frontier” of can-do...
View ArticleObama’s Transgender Obsession
What is it with Barack Obama and transgender people? ISIS is on the march, chopping off heads. Our economy is barely alive. The American Dream is a disappearing mirage, our police are under attack by...
View ArticleThe Shameful Orlando Blame Game
Within hours of the Orlando massacre, the comment section of Boston’s leading liberal newspaper was filled with hatred. Sheer, vitriolic hatred. Not hatred, mind you, for the piece of human filth who...
View ArticleCalculating Comey?
James Comey is the Emily Litella of FBI directors. For those too young to get the reference, Emily Litella was a “Saturday Night Live” character(back in the days when SNL was funny). each week she...
View ArticleDonald’s Death Wish?
From the time that Donald Trump entered the Republican race for president, a crackpot conspiracy theory has lurked in the background: that Trump had no real intention of becoming president, that he was...
View ArticleTrump Foils The Media
Sometimes the behavior of the “mainstream media” is questionable. Sometimes it’s outrageous. And sometimes it’s incomprehensible. Last Friday was one of those “incomprehensible” days. Donald Trump...
View ArticleWhy I’m Voting For Trump
Donald Trump is an awful candidate. He has shown little interest in studying issues, forming concise, cohesive views and expressing them in a reasonable, palatable way. Trump’s next complete,...
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