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Elon Musk’s nasty Social Security gambit

What is it with Elon Musk and Social Security? He clearly has a problem with the retirement account. Is he trying to cripple or even destroy the system that provides incomes for millions of older Americans? It sure looks like it. Then, again, he and President Trump may be up to some other ...

Governing in the spirit of Roosevelt

In his own Gettysburg address - this in 1939 - President Franklin Roosevelt said, "It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with concrete difficulties - with things which must be done day to day." Of course, FDR likely ...

Cabinet hearings almost always tough

This past week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and realtor/investment banker Howard Lutnick underwent the rigors of the Senate confirmation process. Both men in the course of media scrutiny leading up to their hearings were labeled hypocrites and worse by a variety of critics. RFK Jr., the Trump ...

The Trump redo: ‘I do solemnly swear’

Donald Trump will appear outside the Capitol on Monday when, around noon, he will swear allegiance to the Constitution for a second time. The last time he spoke in the open air in Washington, D.C., was Jan. 6, 2021. On that occasion, he implicitly denied the presidential oath's clear directive ...

Beautiful changes coming under Trump

President-elect Trump wants to rename the body of water south of New Orleans and west of Tampa. You know, that one that's been called the Gulf of Mexico for the past 400 years. Donald Trump likes the "Gulf of America" for the salt waters washing ashore at Mobile and on the coastline of Cuba. ...

Bobby Jr. and the politics of crazy

Until recently, the last time a member of the vaunted Kennedy family was in presidential campaign mode was on the evening of Aug. 12, 1980, in New York City. The occasion was that year’s Democratic convention.It was Jimmy Carter’s convention (sort of) but Ted Kennedy’s night. The senator ...