We should not profane Rush Limbaugh's death, nor should we forget the damage he did in life.
Rush Limbaugh once defended his commentaries by saying he never said anything for shock value—he only said things he believed. That was...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
A Presidents' Day complaint (because inclusion is important to a democracy—on every day but one.)
If you were born before 1971, or better still conscious before 1971, you remember a different February—a month with two holidays ten days...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
If you live in a nation of laws but the laws are unenforceable, remind me again, where do you live?
In one Simpsons episode from long ago, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, inept and lazy to a fault, stumbles across a plane crash with wreckage...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 11, 2021
- 3 min
Trump supporters would like "Never Remember" to replace "Never Forget." They may succeed.
Claiming the 2021 Republicans are the "party of Lincoln" is like claiming the New York Yankees are the "team of Babe Ruth." It's a quaint...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
In 2016 people elected Trump because "he says what's on his mind." True, that's what little boys do.
Were it not for the seeming irrelevance of time during this pandemic, I might say it's hard to believe that a month has passed since the...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
White supremacists, domestic terrorists, and Congressional collaborators—all rowing the same boat
While Donald Trump continued to promote left-wing protesters as the major threats to American democracy, the FBI and most other...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 29, 2021
- 3 min
QAnon–“people that love our country,” Trump said, failing to add, "they just hate everyone in it."
Like everyone else before Covid-19 changed things, I used to see a lot of people. If you add together all the years I’ve been teaching...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Three Tom Petty songs to help us recollect how January has changed things—but almost didn't.
A few officials with principles are all that stood between us and a second term of Trumpian autocracy, or even a third. It's been over...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
Biden wants unity; Republicans want absolution. Unfortunately, they haven't confessed yet.
What would George W. Bush have done if, on September 12, 2001, Osama bin Laden had stepped off his private jet at JFK and implored the...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
After four years, the Republicans no longer need the eggs.
In the movie Annie Hall, the narrator Alvie Singer (Woody Allen) comments on relationships: Now the Republicans don't need the crazy...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
In 2017 Trump spoke of American carnage: it was not a complaint but a promise.
For better or worse, the four-year reign of a racist president adds special significance to the day on which we honor the life and...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
After 9/11 the spirit of the country gradually improved. After 1/6 the opposite has occurred.
We think Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz or Donald Trump will resign in disgrace? Wouldn’t they have to comprehend disgrace to do that? … For...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
The religious fanatic and the sexual predator...working together to Make America a Theocracy Again.
Expect Hawley to hawk MATA hats as a fundraiser. Expect Barrett to wear one. Missouri Republican Josh Hawley has much more in common with...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Wednesday came and went. Trump is still president. We’re no safer than we were last Tuesday.
Somebody help me out here—what does this mean? “a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th.” Those were Trump’s words...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 7, 2021
- 3 min
Antifa attacks Capitol. Trump leads Proud Boys in defense of democracy.
Or so it will read in the annals of history when they are compiled by Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kayleigh...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Sad Little Boy Who Lost the Election and Doesn't Know What to Do...and other sad tales (rev.)
For anyone interested in hearing a mind deteriorate before your very...well...ears, just listen to some of the conversation Donald Trump...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
Trump can "pardon" Mike Pence—and the vice-president deserves it
When Daniel Webster turned down the offer of the vice-presidency in 1839, he explained it this way: "I do not propose to be buried until...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Thanks to Trump we can all say Merry Christmas; because of Trump we don't want to.
Before he shocked the world by winning the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump boasted that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 17, 2020
- 2 min
Stop waiting for the Republicans to speak up—there aren't that many left.
A recent piece in Politico pointed out that when Mitt Romney lost by 5 million votes in 2012, Republicans swore to rebuild their party on...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 12, 2020
- 3 min
With apologies to a real doctor—Seuss—"One state, two state(s), red state, blue state."
We have close relatives in Wyoming—my brother, his wife, and their daughter. We have been, by necessity, "socially distancing" every...
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