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Much alike, both talking in circles, voices flat, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries landed in a fight but not with a Republican – holding rallies Bernie Saunders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set out to break Washington insiders’ iron grip on the Democratic Party. Fingers crossed Republicans – not Republican voters but the Republicans who go to…

White haired, past seventy, she’d had a hard life. Growing up in a broken home she married at 19, divorced, became an alcoholic – AA rescued her. Hair greying, calling herself a ‘MAGA-Granny’ she cheered Trump – got breast cancer. Biden beat Trump. She had surgery. Before starting chemotherapy flew to Trump’s Stop the Steal…

I clicked on Politico news’ website – the first 5 stories were about the Jeffrey Epstein flap; I went to Axios news’ website – Epstein was all over the place again. When the Epstein controversy showed up I thought, That’s no big deal. No one cares. He died years ago… but suddenly there’re Epstein stories…

Do an independent campaign, John Bolton told me a year before the 1980 election. Puzzled, I frowned, What’s an independent campaign? No corporation could give an independent campaign a penny, no person could give more than $5000. But 200,000 conservatives across the country had given $25 or $50 contributions to Jesse Helms’ 1978 campaign so…

Born and bred in New York, a dealmaker, TV star, Trump has his own way of looking at things. Take Ukraine: Back during the Cold War, to stop the Soviet Union, presidents made alliances. Like NATO. That kept us safe. A dealmaker, sitting in the Oval Office, Trump sees alliances as financial transactions, looks at…

This week was quite a week: Biden pardoned his brother, sister, other brother, a general who detests Trump, every member of the Jan. 6 committee, and of course he’d already pardoned his son Hunter. Climbing into a helicopter Biden left the White House. Trump sat down in the Oval Office, pardoned the mob who’d stormed…

Out of a clear blue sky a sign of hope landed in my inbox Saturday morning. Here’s Larissa Phillips’ story from The Free Press (below).   Whatever Happens, Love Thy Neighbor I’m a Democrat living in a red, rural county. Trump supporters have mowed my lawn, walked my dog, and eroded my prejudices with their…

The split screens said it all, even when the mics were muted. Trump was angry, unhinged and afraid to look Kamala Harris in the eye. Harris was in command all night. It was the most dominating performance in the history of presidential debates since JFK won the very first one in 1960. It was the…

You don’t see many people like James Lankford – getting along with both sides in a divided world he tells people ‘Your faith should affect everything you do. It’s how I treat my wife. It’s how I treat strangers. Every person’s created in the image of God. They have value and worth. As I joke…