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Harris should let Donald be Donald

One of the difficulties Joe Biden encountered during his disastrous debate with Donald Trump in June was that he apparently tried to cover every one of Trump's outlandish lies and misstatements. This is an impossible task. Trump's fabrications, distortions, and slanders come so fast and ...

Veep Harris is now front and center

The truth is that for a certain percentage of Americans, Vice President Kamala Harris simply disappeared. Now, this isn't an entirely unexpected phenomenon. Most vice presidents, with the possible exception of Dick Cheney under George W. Bush, dwell in a kind of backwoods limbo. Back in the ...

The candidates: follies and fumbles

As incredible as it is to some people, including myself, Donald Trump is now officially the nominee of the Republican party for president. For the third time, Trump, a convicted felon, stands where Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan stood, not to mention Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. And ...

Now is the time for Biden to be bold

"In six months," the narrative states, the man in the White House "had faced some of the roughest abuse and difficulties of any president in history. "He had been castigated ... repudiated ... ridiculed. He had faced the pressure of the Palestine issue, the increasing threat of war [with ...

Biden and the Democratic tightrope

A day or two following the presidential debate in which Joe Biden performed so miserably, JoJo Burgess, the mayor of "little" Washington and a delegate to August's Democratic national convention, spoke to a group of Democrats in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Burgess, who appeared ...