Presidential Pardons are a Perk of the Office. I Mever Much Cared for Them.
In an ideal world where justice is meted out evenly and without prejudice, Joseph Biden should not be pardoning anyone, including his...
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Chuck Radda
2 days ago3 min read
The Confederacy of the Gutless—the Republican Party and Us
Today begins the end of an epoch in America—it's the final month to brag that, in the long and often tenuous history of the United...
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Chuck Radda
6 days ago3 min read
Corrupting the Incorruptible—Coming Soon to an Inauguration Near You
In the 1980s legislators, doctors, lawyers, and parents—many laboring with the best of intentions—sought to put an end to child abuse in...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 223 min read
Nancy Mace: Duly Elected Protector of Toilets.
Cruelty for cruelty's sake has found home in the MAGA party. Matt Gaetz, we hardly knew you, but we knew enough. And your excuse for...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 201 min read
A link to your three-minute read for today.
In 2021, RFK Jr. said, " I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated.” It's...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 173 min read
The higher the horse; the harder the fall.
As Trump's Polarizing Express chugs toward the holidays, it's time to peruse how another character handled a hostile takeover : But...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 153 min read
Matt Gaetz may be a punchline, but RFK is a lot more dangerous.
Since we're in a drought, I can't rain on the parade of all those innocents thrilled to see RFK tending to their personal health, but I...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 142 min read
The person and the position—they don't both demand our respect
There is a difference—and sometimes an unnerving chasm—between the president and the presidency. It's more than just the spelling of two...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 111 min read
On Veterans Day, 2024
In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 92 min read
Maybe it's time for the Democratic party to stop asking for money.
I have a feeling that, among the many different yet connected progressive organizations to which I contributed over the past half year,...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 83 min read
Another spiel about where the Democratic voters went wrong.
Spoiler alert—they didn't. Let's define Democrats. Are they the people who sent a steady stream of texts for the past six months asking...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 72 min read
Starting Over
Today, as the after-election panic continues to pick up speed, I was asked to e-sign a petition to further the No Kings Act, a piece of...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 63 min read
No news is good news—late news is a close second.
On mornings like this, it's good to be a Courant subscriber. A"daily" that's a day late on everything gives us one extra day to live in...
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Chuck Radda
Nov 43 min read
Trump's Road Show—A Second-Rate Comic without the Gold
Seinfeld aficionados who watched Donald Trump sleepwalk and meander through his final weekend of doomsday forecasting and pornographic...
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Chuck Radda
Oct 303 min read
Democracy rests on two tenets—the right to vote and the expectation that the winner wins and the loser accepts it.
Since tens of millions of otherwise normal Americans are preparing to vote for Donald Trump (or have already done so), and since it seems...
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Chuck Radda
Oct 284 min read
And now a blog from a person who considers Donald Trump a vulgar, callous, and emotionally stunted boor.
Years ago, when I assigned essays of opinion, I advised my students not to use I think and In my opinion because they were redundant...
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Chuck Radda
Oct 223 min read
A half-century ago, America rejected a demagogue. Lesson learned—lesson forgotten.
"What are the Real issues that exist today in these United States? It is the trend of the pseudo-intellectual government, where a select,...
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Chuck Radda
Oct 163 min read
Pecos Bill rode a tornado and wrung out all the water to stop a drought.
Can someone tell Marjorie Taylor Greene that this story was made up? There are several voting blocs that Kamala Harris must try win over:...
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Chuck Radda
Oct 73 min read
To a cultist one truth washes clean the nine lies to come.
I was thinking recently about the effectiveness of cults—how cultists explain their bizarre beliefs by latching onto something positive...
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Chuck Radda
Oct 12 min read
Why I won't watch the vice-presidential debate. Hint: it's the same reason I shouldn't have watched the presidential one.
Ever since Kellyanne Conway added the term "alternative facts" to our lexicon in January 2017, the media has been unable to catch up, and...
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