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Your Turn

We are on the eve of a most important election.  Our democracy has been under attack and our Constitution ignored.  It’s time to put aside partisanship and participate in a cherished American tradition…voting.  Every qualified citizen has the right and obligation to speak.  Our country will be stronger because of you taking seriously our founders vision 250 years ago.  The freedom to be heard. VOTE!

 

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Case for Historic Wave

Case for Historic Wave

(Editor’s note: Peggy Noonan is one of America’s most respected writers & columnist of the Wall Street Journal.  She addresses the only way the Republican Party can be rebuilt is the President should be dealt a rebuke, a rebellion and a rout.  She also has a...

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What Is Next?

What Is Next?

It’s time to start thinking about what could happen when the results of the November 3rd election are known. President Trump has never seen an election he did not say was stolen.  The question is what will he do if his MAGA party or “chosen ones” do not win control of...

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In Sight?

In Sight?

(Editor’s note: Reading the Los Angeles Times came upon this commentary by Robin Abcarian.  She covers a wide range of topics, news, politics, culture, and societal issues, with a focus on elections, public policy and civil rights.  She is recognized for her...

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Consider

Consider

(Editor’s note: A thoughtful all-encompassing editorial appeared in today’s New York Times.  With our country voting over the next week…until Tuesday, November 3rd this deserves consideration.) President Trump has encouraged voters to pretend he is on the ballot for...

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ALERT

ALERT

This is written to alert our readers to the importance of being prepared for what our country could face between now and election day. So far, President Trump has failed in his efforts to assert federal controls over elections.  First, he tried to get his hands on...

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Bush Advice

Bush Advice

The time has arrived for former President George W. Bush to follow the example set by his brother Neil Bush and his daughter Barbara Bush.  They are publicly supporting Talarico in the Texas Senate race. I have supported President Bush’s position to no longer engage...

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Political Tidbits

Political Tidbits

(Editor’s note:  For our new readers Political Tidbits are done periodically.  BTW, any tips appreciated.  Send to [email protected].)  Counting the days 17 till the election…concerned Americans are counting 808 days until Trump…his chaos and corruption…are...

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Trump Rejects 2-Decade Tradition

Trump Rejects 2-Decade Tradition

(Editor’s note:  The Hill reports President Trump is breaking more than two-decades of international election observers monitoring the November mid-term election.  Laura Kelly in the article below provides the history of this effort and that the USA joins isolated...

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“Day After”

“Day After”

(Editor’s note: Axios AM arrives each morning by Mike Allen.  Below is todays focused on A1 labs war-game “the day after”.) Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a...

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A 2028 Approach

A 2028 Approach

(Editor’s note: There is a significant amount of dissatisfaction with the two-party system.  Former WV Senator Joe Manchin in a Washington Post Op Ed says, “voters do not need another political party…they need independent-minded leaders willing to put the country...

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Advice from the Master

Advice from the Master

(Editor’s note: Karl Rove has a weekly column in The Wall Street Journal.  Today he says “The GOP strategy looks good on paper.  “What’s lacking is competent execution.”  Rove guided Governor George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign and served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief...

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Trump Brand Has Tanked

Trump Brand Has Tanked

(Editor’s note:  Kristen Soltis Anderson is an American Republican pollster, speaker, author and media commentator.  She is the author of “The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading American (and How Republicans Can Keep Up).  She has a piece in today’s New York...

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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

(Editor’s Note:  Tom Nichols writes for The Atlantic, the article below released late this morning is how President Trump has turned summits into a pointless ritual. Nicholas is a professor emeritus of the national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, and...

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Trump’s future foretold

Trump’s future foretold

(Editor’s note:  Jim VandeHei & Mike Allen of Axios periodically write a column “Behind the Curtain.  This morning’s foretells Trump’s future.) President Trump feels and acts invincible: He acts on whims, however he pleases, precedent and restraints be damned. But...

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“I’ll have no part of it”

“I’ll have no part of it”

“I’ll have no part of it” Karl Rove, one of America’s most respected Republican voices hopefully has lit a fire with current and former members of the Republican Party.  Last week he exploded when Republican BO French, candidate for Texas Railroad Commission posted a...

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Our Freedom At Risk

Our Freedom At Risk

Today American democracy is more at risk than at any point since the 1960’s.  Nothing makes that point stronger than the President of the United States abruptly ordering the removal of major traditional news media from covering the White House.  Telling CNN, MS Now...

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Pause AI for Humanity’s Sake

Pause AI for Humanity’s Sake

(Editor’s Note: Peggy Noonan wrote the piece below which has resulted in AI becoming the scariest political issue & talked about in the country today.  Ms. Noonan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Wall Street Journal opinion columnist.) There is no subject...

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Let’s Pretend

Let’s Pretend

President Trump gathered what few supporters he has last night to play “Let’s Pretend”.  They all charged to Dallas to pay their final respects to a dying presidency.  Before the final rites were pronounced on election day November 3rd, he asks the adoring friends to...

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Not So Supreme, Mr. Roberts

Not So Supreme, Mr. Roberts

(Editor's note:  This morning Maureen Dowd, opinion columnist for The New York Times, wrote the piece below.  Ms. Dowd is an American Journalist, best-selling author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writers.) It’s crazy to think about Donald Trump outrunning anything. But...

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Publishers Message

Publishers Message

We heard from our readers after recently publishing articles and opinion pieces from respected authors, journals & newspapers.  They suggested we do more.  We plan to do so but will continue to offer our own commentary and ideas.  Suggestions are always welcome at...

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Not Time for Silence

Not Time for Silence

President Trump has us in a fix.  All the while he sits at the resolute desk coloring maps, renaming Lake Ontario and contemplating a new name for an ocean.  He has us in a trade war, a real war, an affordability crisis, deportation of our neighbors, fighting with a...

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4 Political Junkies

4 Political Junkies

(Editor’s note: Moments ago, The Atlantic published a politics piece by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker.) Trump Plans to Buy Midterm Ads About His Own Record.   President Trump gathered his top political advisers in the Oval Office early this...

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Art of the Self-Deal

Art of the Self-Deal

(Editor’s note:  Peggy Noonan is one of America’s most respected writers & columnist at the Wall Street Journal.  Today her column “Declarations” provides thoughts on how Trump-era corruption is affecting Americans as a people.) I’m thinking about the deeper...

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Broken

Broken

Is the Republican Party deeply divided, in transition or simply “broken”?  Is the Democratic Party badly troubled or broken to the point where it cannot recover? No doubt the old Republican Party is clearly busted.  For decades the GOP was built around limited...

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