So let’s be honest with ourselves. How successful were Democrats in the recent elections? If you saw the election as being all about whether the damage being done by Donald Trump could be stopped, you’ll probably think things went really well. And from that standpoint, they did. Quite a bit of what Trump did by …
Well, that was interesting. Under the heading of always being honest when you’re wrong with predictions, my pick of Joe Biden winning with 350 electoral votes was less than perfect. Biden has won the election, but it looks like he’s going to max out at 306, which is still 36 more than he needed to …
“This is not who we are. We’re better than this.” Wow. It looks like Joe Biden was wrong in saying that. As I write this, nearly 70 million Americans have disagreed with you by voting to re-elect Donald Trump. And while it doesn’t look like he will win, Republicans have apparently held onto the Senate …
Is it soup yet? I have had a great deal of fun the last 10 years ignoring television news.. As a career newspaperman, print journalism is the only real journalism to me. TV “newspeople” tend too much toward being male models and female pageant contestants. It annoys me just to see them. I stopped watching …
All right, it’s time to fish or cut bait. I don’t know who Henry Olsen is, other than that he writes a column that appears in the Washington Post and appears to be a little to the right of center. But he predicted the election in his column today and he picked who would win …
I was paging through Facebook this afternoon when I saw some goober was predicting a 91 percent likelihood that Donald Trump would be re-elected. He said Trump would win the Electoral College by 362-176 and would carry New York and Hawaii, two of the most solidly blue states in the country. At first I thought …
I have a feeling the next five days are going to last about five months. Actually, they’ll just seem that way, and once they’re over, the next 78 days may last 78 years. If you haven’t been following closely, five days is the gap between now and election day and the 78 days after that …
I’m not sure I can remember an election where more people seemed terrified at the thought of the potential outcome. I’m not talking about Republicans here. They always seem — or at least pretend to be — frightened at the thought of some crazy Marxist becoming president and destroying everything good about America. They seem …
“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions, but … laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. “As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change …
I was born in a time when women were little more than their husbands’ property. I don’t need to go into the history of the women’s movement, but it ought to be fairly shocking that American women couldn’t get credit in their own names until 1974. They have consistently been paid less than men for …
