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Our Hopes for 2021 Won't Be Fulfilled By a Politician, But By Us Dec. 29, 2020
COOK FOREST, Pennsylvania — It has just finished snowing here, and the forest looks magical, d... Read More
The Dreamers Are Still Waiting for Their Nightmare to End Dec. 27, 2020
In 2001, two U.S. senators introduced the DREAM Act, to let immigrants brought here without authoriz... Read More
How America Shaped Christmas, and How Christmas Shapes America Dec. 24, 2020
With its gaudy displays, rampant excess, celebratory spirit and high price tag, Christmas is a thoro... Read More
Are 'Never Trumpers' the Future of the GOP? Dec. 24, 2020
Denouncing the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a parsimonious "disgrace" and hinting at an Alam... Read More
The Enemy Is Fragility: Pompeo's New Strategy Dec. 24, 2020
Planet Earth, for worse and occasionally better, is a world of neighborhood existence — many n... Read More
The Abominable 'America Last' Porkulus Dec. 23, 2020
This country is not governed by a "Republican Party" and a "Democratic Party." It is governed by an ... Read More
Suggestion from Shifting Saturn Dec. 17, 2020
Time is not, despite its reputation, a healer. Time is a progressor. It so happens that when healing... Read More
White Supremacists Deserve First Amendment Protection Dec. 17, 2020
The advantage of living under the First Amendment is that it allows you to speak, write and worship ... Read More
A Time to Reflect on Health, Wealth and Happiness Dec. 17, 2020
It is often said that health is wealth, and at no time in our lives has this proven more true than d... Read More
Trump's Election Conspiracy Theory Requires Followers to Join Him in an Alternate Universe: Given the Conspicuous Lack of Credible Evidence, the President's Charges Can Only Be Accepted As a Matter of Faith Dec. 16, 2020
No matter how many times Bullwinkle J. Moose fails to pull a rabbit out of his hat, he remains optim... Read More
The Steps to Happiness Dec. 16, 2020
From the Philippine Observer's June/July 1996 issue come these steps to being happy: Happiness canno... Read More
Cuomo Not Fit to Be US Attorney General Dec. 16, 2020
Governor Andrew Cuomo is reported to be on Joe Biden's shortlist for attorney general of the United ... Read More
Some Church Lives Matter More Than Others Dec. 15, 2020
Here is a textbook illustration of how the corporate media's sins of omission can be far more damnin... Read More
Between Two Eclipses Dec. 12, 2020
The balsamic moon sounds like it could be a zingy salad dressing; however, it's a sliver of light in... Read More
Should I Move On? Dec. 12, 2020
Dear Annie: I have been with my boyfriend for 16 years. Until this year, we were very happy. We shar... Read More
Final Solar Trine of 2020 Dec. 11, 2020
When luminaries are at a 120-degree angle, they exhibit compatibility so as to assure harmonious mus... Read More
Know Thine Frenemy Dec. 09, 2020
If you doubt yourself, then it's because you're smart. Intelligence is a state of cluelessness. The ... Read More
In Private Sieges, Missing Public Squares Dec. 09, 2020
WASHINGTON — "We need each other." Bill Clinton once spoke those simple words. Never has that ... Read More
What Biden's First 100 Days Might Look Like Dec. 08, 2020
The Biden-Harris administration will confront "a pandemic, an economic crisis, calls for racial just... Read More
What Liberals Are Missing on Student Loan Forgiveness Dec. 06, 2020
College-educated voters have shifted to the Democratic Party in recent years, and Democratic leaders... Read More
