Come Heller high water… This week on “As the Trump Turns,” our hero: A) Trashed a grieving Gold Star family B) Scared the crap out of everyone when we learned he's asked a foreign policy adviser why we can’t use our nukes C) Said to a veteran who gave him his Purple Heart “I … [Read more...]
The Heller Poll: Was Trump’s treatment of the Gold Star family finally an insult too far for voters?
Nothing to date has been (to use an archaic war movie reference) "an insult too far" (if you know the movie you don't win a prize but you do win my respect) for Trump supporters. But was his treatment of a Gold Star family whose Muslim son, an Army captain who was killed in the … [Read more...]
Guest column: Libraries are so great, it’s almost like getting away with something
By Kelly Flynn I am nine years old, a skinny bit of a thing, and as I step onto the creaky wooden porch of the quaint little building with the A-frame roof, I nearly stagger under the weight of the pile of books clutched in my arms. And I experience again what I experience … [Read more...]
Here’s a dumb thought: Maybe Trump’s simply not that smart
I don’t ask this as someone who wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump at the point of a gun, not even if he were running against a Chia pet. I really don’t. I also don’t ask it in a lame attempt to be funny or sarcastic. I mean this seriously: Is Trump stupid? I ask because … [Read more...]
This week’s Auchtoon: The complicated issue of race
In her later years, my wife's grandmother suffered from dementia. She was the same extraordinarily sweet, wonderful person she always had always been, but her short-term memory faded and her filter disappeared. For a time she lived with my wife's family. Their formal dining room … [Read more...]
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