Perhaps Animal Planet can broadcast the next debate.
You can change the opponent, but you can't change the truth—the person with the least to say interrupts the most and has a tangent for...
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Chuck Radda
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
Conspiracies were fun when they involved spacemen and Sasquatch. Then those funny beliefs began to kill people.
Against my better judgment, I became—I won't say "embroiled, maybe bemused(?) in a Facebook conversation concerning RFK Jr., a hero to...
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Chuck Radda
- Sep 4
- 3 min
Trump does not mellow with age, but his rage and incoherence grow by the hour.
America has always been a country of symbolic gestures, from dumping tea into Boston Harbor to flying jets in formation over football...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 28
- 3 min
Joy to the World—It Isn't a Policy.
It's difficult to name the speech I enjoyed most at last week's Democratic National Convention (Michelle Obama's undiluted attack on the...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 1
- 3 min
The unruly child has become a bore
Project 2025...is a roadmap of Germany in the 1930s with a dollop of McCarthyism thrown in for modernity.
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Chuck Radda
- Jul 8
- 3 min
A Late Escape from the Biden Train
Independence Day was as good a time as any to examine what particular independence we purported to be celebrating and why we seemed so...
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Chuck Radda
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Joe Biden is trying to protect what many of us have already renounced
Joe Biden is wrong. His appeal to American voters that the future of democracy rests with crushing Donald Trump may be well intended, but...
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Chuck Radda
- Mar 5
- 3 min
The end of honor and civility are playing out in real-time as we quietly watch.
It may be time to stop using the term "humanitarian crisis" for the ongoing events in Gaza. I don't think posterity will refer to it so...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 27
- 3 min
The uncommitted vote today may be more than just symbolic by the time November comes.
I'm not a Middle Eastern scholar...or a scholar, period. This fact is not necessarily a liability since most Middle Eastern experts who...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Alabama—not sweet, not even home if you’re planning a family
Once again, the time is ripe to resurrect the old Lynyrd Skynyrd/Neil Young debate over Alabama—whether it really is a "sweet home" or...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 15
- 3 min
The words of Joseph Welch today would carry little weight—shame on us.
Robert Hur, who oversaw the 2023/2024 investigation into President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents, boasts a BA...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 30
- 3 min
Haley declares Trump “unhinged.” How late to the party is too late?
Near the end of a football game, when all seems lost, the trailing team will often attempt a long forward pass in hopes that some...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 20
- 3 min
If we live in "a nation of laws," why is Donald Trump not in jail?
Like most Americans (and I should qualify that by admitting that by "most" I mean those not encumbered with the term minority, I had...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 1
- 3 min
Happy New Year to all—even Trump supporters, who should not rot in hell.
We hardly had a week to digest Donald Trump's "Rot in Hell" Christmas address when we were forced to confront his New Year's babble—laced...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 11, 2023
- 3 min
Wanted: College President. Must be able to solve all the problems the world can’t solve.
Salary: Good. Job Security: Nil A word, if I might, about Elise Stefanik, the Republican representative whose rant against three college...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 6, 2023
- 3 min
When compromise is weakness, so-called "eliminationism" may soon apply to all of us.
To lay our current intolerant, thin-skinned, and superficial attitudes at the feet of Donald Trump is to oversimplify, for I still debate...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 15, 2023
- 2 min
In a week of misery and death, a single loss may still resonate
I know. I get it. With the Middle East exploding and our system of government under siege, with the proliferation of guns threatening us...
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Chuck Radda
- Sep 6, 2023
- 3 min
At Least It's Pretty to Think So
I don't expect anyone to shed tears over the recent sentencing of Proud Boys members, Ethan Nordean and Dominic Pezzola. A total of 28...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 28, 2023
- 2 min
For the Yankees, the pitch clock is at least making the season end faster.
I generally steer clear of sports commentary for three very good reasons. First, I've read the great ones—Bob Ryan, Frank DeFord, Mike...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 15, 2023
- 3 min
You can leave it all behind / And sail to Lahaina
When I first listened to "The Last Resort " by the Eagles, nearly five decades ago, I had never heard of Lahaina. Because there was no...
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