In 2000 he denied any link between smoking and lung cancer. Now Mike Pence is our nation's medic.
And what specific qualifications does Pence bring to this medical exigency? A shameful but undying loyalty to the president.
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 20, 2020
- 3 min
Another debate, and now we can all pronounce "Nevada." Did we learn anything else?
Some random observations from Wednesday night’s debate: After you hear the phrase enough times, "Stop and Frisk" begins to sound like a...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 14, 2020
- 3 min
High school athletes link up with a right-wing religious group: what could possibly go wrong?
The three high school athletes bringing suit against the Connecticut Association of Schools and the CIAC are now being supported by...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 30, 2020
- 3 min
The oddest of odd couples can do their patriotic duty, or just quietly allow the worst to happen.
Can John Bolton or John Roberts save America?
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 27, 2020
- 2 min
The sad truth: it is the REAL Donald Trump, hashtag and all.
Let me begin with two unrelated thoughts: 1. Finally watched The Irishman Saturday. 2. The president has 71 million Twitter followers. 1....
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
Sadly, we may have already met the heroes of the impeachment
I don’t foresee any heroes emerging from the Senate, not after they sat silently while immigrant children were separated from their parents.
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
Fiddling while Australia burns—climate deniers watch their policies come to fruition.
A nation comprises many different facets...and eliminating so much of it will have devastating effects for generations to come.
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 19, 2019
- 3 min
The day after: Pontius Pilate, Japanese pilots, and not enough moments of silence
Americans celebrating yesterday’s impeachment vote should take a long hard look at themselves. To live in a tumultuous time is exciting...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 13, 2019
- 2 min
The land that time forgot...and rightly so.
Trump didn’t create racists—he simply gave them a forum. He didn’t create bigots—he simply provided an avenue for them to travel safely.
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
Not every problem these days is political: our children need protection too.
Dante devised nine circles of hell—there has to be a tenth for the sexual predator, whether face to face or online.
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 10, 2019
- 2 min
If the Saudis are "devastated," what adjective does Trump suggest for the three sailors' families?
Imagine for a moment that Mohammed Alshamrani was not a Saudi national. Alshamrani was, of course, the gunman at Pensacola who killed...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 5, 2019
- 3 min
Of Casual Conversations and Elizabeth Warren
Yesterday a health insurance expert, along with my wife and me, had a very casual conversation about health insurance. It was casual, of...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 28, 2019
- 2 min
Can we be thankful on Thanksgiving? Yes, of course.
The current political climate, whirling and careening ever faster toward chaos, will take no holiday, nor should it. The prospect of an...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 27, 2019
- 2 min
There is life after Congress: simply become one of the president's lapdogs.
My wife and I have known each other for just short of six decades. While you’re doing the math, let me say this: if I’m ever charged with...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 16, 2019
- 3 min
Lindsey Graham—working for all of us to carve out a special niche on the wall of shame.
It was difficult to listen to the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch vis-à-vis the incendiary tweets of Donald Trump and try to imagine...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 12, 2019
- 3 min
In the age of Trump, the reward for a job well done: a tweet and a dismissal.
“Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well together with Border Crossings...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 10, 2019
- 3 min
What do you like more? The lawlessness or the stupidity?
Time for Trump supporters to fess up. The past two weeks have underscored the disdain the president holds for the rule of law and the...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
A short back-to-school quiz, for those of us who are not going back to school.
Who penned these words? Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 28, 2019
- 2 min
Wishing someone dead might be a conversation best kept between you and your psychiatrist.
I like Bill Maher: I agree with him about 90% of the time. I also agree with the way he phrases those opinions about 75% of the time. I...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 22, 2019
- 2 min
What a fool believes he sees/no wise man has the power to reason away
What a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
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