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Question #19Hey Folks: What is your reaction to this debate? (October 22) H.
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3 hr 1,517
As we enter the home stretch to this election, we are bombarded with so much news the only way to make sense of it is to divide it into categories. The…
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21 hr 162
Trump is acting as if he expects to lose the election. Today, on the Fox News Channel, he hammered again on the discredited Hunter Biden laptop story a…
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Oct 21 129
With the election just over two weeks away, the news is intense. The biggest story, by far, remains coronavirus. While we are all understandably buffet…
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Oct 20 161
Today reinforced some of the developing storylines of the 2020 election. Last night, at a rally in Michigan, Trump once again attacked Michigan Governo…
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Oct 19 160
When I posted this week’s October 11 letter at about 4:30 on the morning of October 12, Buddy was on his way out the door to go to work. And about the …
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Oct 18 147
The theme of the day was the palpable sense of rats leaving a sinking ship as Republicans, administration officials, and administration-adjacent people…
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Oct 17 247
Tonight was supposed to be the night of a televised town hall meeting featuring both President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. But…
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Oct 16 139
Today began with a breathless story from the tabloid paper the New York Post alleging that, according to Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden’s son,…
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Oct 15 275
While the media is focused on the predetermined hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat formerly held by the late Ru…
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Oct 14 152
Question #18When did we stop talking about democracy? During World War Two, soldiers wrote home talking about it, and FDR talked about it all the time. Duri…
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Oct 13 1,142
According to a proclamation from the president, today is officially “Columbus Day,” when we honor the “many immeasurable contributions of Italy to Amer…
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Oct 13 282
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