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'Tis the season for holiday hopes, but Democrats in Washington may have gotten too greedy with their political wish list. Just as leaders of Congress' blue party eagerly launched their closing arguments in favor of impeaching President Trump for allegedly wielding the nation's foreign policy apparatus for personal gain, TVs from coast to coast displayed the president rocking the NATO summit in London for the good of the red, white and blue. Never-Trumpers pinning their impeachment hopes on convincing Americans not to believe their own eyes is a wish that would make Santa Claus roll his baby blues.
Shares Terrorist attacks on civilians are always outrageous, grotesque and tragic. But the atrocity last week in London was darkly ironic, too.
Shares Like an autumn breeze that sweeps clean the fallen leaves, good fortune is expelling the dreary effects of the incessant political strife that has tarnished the days of 2019. Even as dour faces in Washington deliver the dismal details of presidential impeachment proceedings, elsewhere the news is of a nation bursting with new-found prosperity. By most measures, this holiday season is shaping up to come wrapped in a golden bow.
Shares When the Minnesota Vikings take on the Seattle Seahawks on Monday night, it will wrap up Week 12 of the 2019-20 NFL season. That's three-quarters of the way through the 16-game regular season, and Colin Kaepernick remains a quarterback in search of a team that will hire him.
Shares If it were happening in Russia or Ukraine, we could imagine the script the media would be reciting: "An oligarch with a media empire and deep connections to the leading party in the lower assembly is running for president. He is spending tens of millions of dollars of his own money to secure victory. He is silencing the media."
Shares As China goes, so goes North Korea. It's an obvious takeaway from the recent contentious behavior of the Asian giant that is imitated by its junior partner. Satirist Mark Twain once said, "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Based on his thorny dealings with the troublesome duo, President Trump would likely say the same about a bad example.
Shares Mark Ruffalo, who is probably best known for playing Dr. Bruce Banner in the movies set in the Marvel Comics Universe, testified before Congress last week about the alleged dangers posed by PFAS, a group of chemicals some have alleged are poisoning the nation's groundwater.
Shares "The darker the night, the brighter the stars." So said Dostoevsky, and as the nation gropes through the murky era of recrimination marked by presidential impeachment, Kanye West's invitation to join in his dazzling affirmation of faith is lighting up the buzzsphere. Detractors, perhaps blinded by the light, say it's all about the Benjamins. To the contrary, it's all about new beginnings.
Shares Just as it had been in each of the four previous 2020 Democratic presidential debates, the proposed Medicare For All takeover of the nation's health care and health insurance systems was hotly contested in their fifth face-off Wednesday night in Atlanta.
Shares A straightforward message can emerge unintelligible when whispered around a circle. Much more distorting than a children's game, apparently, is the free-flowing art of diplomacy. Destruction-minded Democrats hope to deploy disagreements over every murmur and recollection of a phone call to evict President Trump from the White House. Reasonable people may disagree over meaning, but only the senseless would angle for impeachment.
Shares What does it say about the Democratic presidential field of 18 (give or take) wannabes still vying for the party's 2020 nomination when two more are only now jumping into the race, just days ahead of the fifth candidates' debate on Wednesday night [Nov. 20] in Atlanta?
Shares The Chinese government may have succeeded in ensuring that the protests wracking Hong Kong have not spread outwards onto the Mainland. But one thing is for certain: Many months into the anti-Beijing demonstrations that have riled the capitalist entrepot, Beijing has manifestly failed to pacify Hong Kong. Indeed, if nothing else, the protests against Communist rule appear only to be gaining in intensity, if not size.
Shares Laughter may be the best medicine, but it likely won't heal the headaches endured by worryworts troubled over the state of nature. At a time when climate-change crusaders are struggling to maintain their hold on the public's concern for the cause, their earnest efforts are getting punked. Indignity is vexing, but at least it beats indifference.
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