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While a good many MAGA are still stomping, clapping their hands and cheering themselves hoarse on this second day of Donald J. Trump’s second stint in the oval office, I’m sure at least a few are saying to themselves, “uh oh.” Fortified by over $60-billion from the sale of an imaginary meme-coin in the days…

Monday, January 20, 2025, will be a day of pomp and celebration for many. Not for honoring the legacy of a man who’d done so much to bring the United States a small step closer to the ideal of a nation whose citizens are all equal, but for the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump,…

Former president and now proclaimed 2024 presidential candidate Donald J. Trump continues to proclaim his strong advocacy for the rule of law, a stance long a cornerstone of the GOP ethos. But as only only Trump can, his advocacy is so twisted in application that his supposed support; believed, lauded and mimicked by far too…

Thanks to my opinion pieces of late, I have been identified by local “true conservatives,” many of whom were friends before 2016, as a born again left wing socialist liberal commie pedophile. In light of the idiocy touted by the extremist conservatives, I will embrace being a liberal, but I will not abide being slandered…

Photo copywrite Getty Images “Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this. Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation. It is a stain on our…

“Almost two years after that fateful day … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.” Judge J. Michael Luttig, June 16, 2022, referring to the January 6, 2021, insurrection to stop the certification of the lawful election of Joe Biden to the office of President of…

Everyone, not just never Trumpers, Democrats, liberals and RINOs, should be watching and paying close attention to the House Select Committee’s public hearings on its January 6 investigation findings. It’s an unprecedented moment in history, an assault on our very Constitution. Every U.S. citizen should be insistent on getting to the truth of what happened…

If the statistics of late hold, by this time next week, the United States will have lost one-million people to COVID-19, a number far disproportionate to the rest of the world, where 6,250,452 have died to date, according to Johns Hopkins. Of those, 997,503 are from the U.S. With 4.25-percent of the world’s population, this…

Two lies writ large in the Trump era are causing horrific damage to the democratic process established by the U.S. Constitution, and those lies, perhaps the most egregious ever put forth and pandered by a sitting United States president and believed by so many of his stalwarts, place into dire question whether our system of…