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OP-ED: We expected the worst. Trump has delivered.

Much of America was well aware of the danger of electing Donald Trump as president prior to his victories in 2016 and 2024. We expected the worst and he delivered, being even more outrageous and out of control than we could have envisioned, particularly throughout the first weeks of his ...

Remembering a beloved pet

By Oren Spiegler I generally appear on this page with scalding letters and essays critical of political figures who have let us down. Today my contribution to the opinion page is quite different. On Feb. 28, my family and I said goodbye to a best friend, our handsome tri-color collie ...

Colorado makes courageous decision in barring Trump from the ballot

By Oren Spiegler "Historic" is the word that is being used most often to characterize the bold and courageous decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to bar Donald Trump from that state's presidential ballot on the basis that he violated Clause 3, Article 14 of the United States Constitution by ...

OP-ED: President Biden laid a path of cooperation in State of the Union Address

I applaud President Joe Biden for presenting a spirited, comprehensive, and excellent State of the Union Address, surely knowing that parts of it would trigger insults and heckling from the many Republican members of Congress who want to humiliate him and deny him any further accomplishment.The ...

Trump loses out to basic human decency

We have just witnessed the president eat crow though he will never admit it.He had railed against the "Democratic law" that he claimed forced the separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border for those who are seeking asylum here.Lo and behold, as a political calamity was ...

Chaos topped off by Spicer resignation

The latest chaos and disarray in an administration that is defined by it is the abrupt, but not surprising resignation of Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who somehow managed to survive on the hot seat for six months.Spicer's loyalty to the president was demonstrated through his modus operandi, ...