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This Week's Cover Topic

Why sports and politics do not mix
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 9:28am
At Issue this week...    Sports and Politics There’s a famous Woody Allen joke: “Those who can’t do teach, and those who can’t teach teach gym.” Well, here’s a modernized version of that old saw: Those who can’t do write, and those who can’t write write about sports. One of the most amazing revelations about the shameful and unpatriotic antics of NFL players who are taking the knee (or even lying on the ground...

This Week's Focus Topic

A moment of unity ... and then the politics
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 9:30am
This Weeks Conservative Focus … Gun Control After violence pierces U.S. cities and towns, Americans come together. Later politics can drive them apart. Or not, maybe just this once. As a grim Monday morning dawned in Las Vegas, Nevada, representatives in Congress issued statements that eschewed gun politics. They stuck to themes of sympathy and shared useful information for constituents, such as where they could give blood. President Donald Trump delivered a somber,...

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Dogs, cats, abortion and homosexuality
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 8:39pm
RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE: October 16, 2017 We live in a zeitgeist in which good is scorned as evil and evil is heralded as good. It is a conundrum that while troubling to some is not perplexing to me.   If a person is found to be abusing a dog...
Johnny Carson > Jimmy Kimmel
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 8:19pm
LATE NIGHT TV: October 16, 2017 Jimmy Kimmel deserves credit for frankness, if nothing else. In an interview over the weekend, the ABC late-night host said he doesn’t care about losing Republican viewers. We’re a long way from Johnny...
Trump unlikely to dwell on Las Vegas mass shootings
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 4:35pm
TRUMP PRESIDENCY: October 16, 2017 Has President Donald Trump’s White House moved past the horror that still grips Las Vegas in the wake of the bloody Oct. 1 mass shooting that left 58 dead and 546 wounded? Trump frequently mentions the...
Scalia’s legacy
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 9:14am
ANTONIN SCALIA: October 13, 2017 I knew the late Justice Antonin Scalia a little, and like millions of others, I was an avid fan of his jurisprudence, the great bulk of which he produced after I was no longer a law student, so much the worse for me...
Trump is turning and turning in a widening gyre
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 9:06am
TRUMP PRESIDENCY: October 15, 2017 With eyes wide open, Mike Pence eagerly auditioned for the role as Donald Trump’s poodle. Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such. He did...
Leslie’s Trivia Bits
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 8:52am
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: October 16, 2017 John Bartlett was running the University Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he began compiling a list of recognizable quotations from literature, largely as a resource to answer “Who said?...
Executive orders, the NFL and Boy Scouts
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 8:50am
DEAR MARK: October 13, 2017 DEAR MARK: I am excited about what President Trump is doing to Obamacare through executive orders. As they say, live by the sword, die by the sword and Obamacare is reaping what it sowed. It’s hard for me to see...
Do the math. Tax cuts are bound to increase the national debt
Sunday, October 15, 2017 - 8:57pm
TAX CUTS: October 15, 2017 Speaking to a group of workers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his proposed tax-cut package “will be rocket fuel” for the U.S. economy. It was Trump’s sly way of...
Even if Trump’s threat against NBC isn’t serious, it’s still dsstructive
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 2:50pm
FREE SPEECH: October 13, 2017 After NBC News ran an article that maintained that President Donald Trump had asked for the U.S. nuclear arsenal to be increased nearly tenfold, Trump, as is his wont, tweeted: “With all of the Fake News coming...
Today’s turn-of-the-century problem
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 2:40pm
STATE OF THE NATION: October 13, 2017 Is America in a new Gilded Age? That’s the contention of Republican political consultant Bruce Mehlman, and in a series of 35 slides, he makes a strong case. In many ways, problems facing America today...
A great movie but a lousy life
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 12:57pm
HOLLYWOOD: October 13, 2017 What is it about these pathetic men with a paunch who imagine their looks and libidos are immortal, and think their excuse for manliness continues to attract sweet, young flesh? You might ask some of the women. These men...
Is Trump the heir to Reagan?
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 12:38pm
TRUMP PRESIDENCY: October 13, 2017 Three decades ago, as communications director in the White House, I set up an interview for Bill Rusher of National Review. Among his first questions to President Reagan was to ask him to assess the political...
The auto industry has a glamorous past but an opaque future
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 12:21pm
AUTO INDUSTRY: October 12, 2017 Bending metal, slapping on chrome and marketing an empowering product and status marker that mesmerized 20th-century America, the automobile industry typified the Old Economy, of which General Motors was emblematic....
The left just isn’t right
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 9:11am
THE LEFT: October 13, 2017 Please join me on a whirlwind superficial but revealing tour of liberal la-la land as we peek at recent headlines. Meanwhile, liberals call conservatives wing nuts. Singer Nancy Sinatra tweeted, “The murderous...
How the NFL lost to Trump
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 8:56am
NFL: October 12, 2017 Donald Trump isn’t exactly on a winning streak, but he is beating the NFL in a rout. The league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, signaled the beginning of a messy, divisive retreat with a memo stating, “Like...
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