The poet Dante Alighieri famously said, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in periods of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” Five months ago, when many of us realized that Donald Trump’s nomination was an awful possibility, I evoked this quotation . . .
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5/12/16
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I believe that the television remote control is one of mankind’s greatest inventions since the electric light bulb. It is the only instrument I know of . . .
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7/8/15
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The people who study age patterns often point out that as we grow older we can easily recall many things dating back to our childhood. Reading all the media stories about Hillary Clinton brought to …
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6/18/15
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The 2016 presidential election may seem far away, but the process has already begun, as several candidates have positioned themselves to run.
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2/26/15
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Sol Wachtler, a lawyer and a former chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, once said (and I’m paraphrasing) that prosecutors, with whom he had much day-to-day interaction, have so much control over juries that they could “indict a ham sandwich.”
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9/4/14
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Given that I’m a registered Democrat, it takes a lot of nerve for me to tell a politician in the Republican Party what he or she should do. But, having the luxury of this column . . .
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5/29/14
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Political campaigns are like wars. At some time during a skirmish, the generals declare that they’ve reached the key stage in the battle, and that all they have to do is keep up the momentum.
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8/23/12
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And words can do a fair amount of damage, too. As we all know by now, Rick Perry’s presidential bid is in trouble because of a word painted on a rock outside his family’s hunting camp in Texas.
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10/13/11
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The newly announced candidate for the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, has created media buzz. According to the most recent Rasmussen poll, Perry was leading fellow Republican candidate Mitt Romney by 13 points just days after confirming his presidential run.
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Al D'Amato
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8/25/11
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Have you heard the joke going around?
“How can Obama ever get re-elected?”
“He can kill bin Laden again.”
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Randi Kreiss
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8/25/11
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