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What Do You Tell Your Kids?

What do you tell your kids when you're trying to teach them that calling people ugly names is wrong and they say, "But the President of the United States does it all the time"?What do you tell your...

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Who will be first to say, "Madam President"?

Nobody has ever said the words "Madam President" to a sitting Chief Executive of the United States. With a little luck this watershed event will occur this coming January. It will represent a major...

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Give Your Last Minute Predictions

I’m putting this diary up for everyone who wishes to make a prediction about anything having to do with the debate but doesn’t want to write a full blown diary to do it in. Just place a comment below....

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Open Letter to the Demonstrators.

This will be short and sweet. I am putting this proposal up on the off chance that some of you will read it or hear of it and think it’s a good idea. It’s very simple: make it about something very...

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How the Louisiana Runoff Next Week Can be a Win Even if We Lose.

When Colonel Jimmy Dolittle's flight of sixteen B-25 bombers took of from an aircraft carrier in April of 1942 no one had any illusions that their small, isolated mission would inflict anything beyond...

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Last Living Person Born in 19th Century has died.

I don’t have time for a full diary but this is a significant historical turning point. There is no longer anyone among us who was not born in the twentieth or twenty-first century. Here’s an excerpt...

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DACA and the Antifa.

High School Students in Denver have now walked out of class and are marching in support of the Dreamers. They represent the overwhelmingly sympathetic feeling that Americans have for these young people...

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Would an End Run Work Against Kavanaugh?

Everyone seems to be saying that we have run out of options and that Kavanaugh is now pretty much a done deal. But I come from the school of thinking that says it ain’t over ‘til it’s over and there’s...

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The Name is Kamala, The Game is Comma Luck.

In order to celebrate Kamala Harris’ selection as Joe Biden’s running mate we’ve invented a new game. It’s called Comma Luck and can be used in the same way as flipping a coin or cutting cards when no...

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A Few Versions of a Song for the Moment.

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Pelosi Will be a Guest on Finding Your Roots Tonight. PBS

This started as a comment in another diary but I decided to expand it because a lot more people might be interested. Finding Your Roots, PBS 7 pm Central (Times may vary, check local listings.)For...

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As of 6 pm Eastern Time today,.0005133Will be the fraction of the Trump presidency left for us to endure.  At Noon tomorrow it will have lasted 1461 days or 35064 hours. Now there are only only 18...

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