Liberal media eats crow
Do you remember the gloating of the liberal media just a couple of months ago to the effect that Donald Trump was so disorganized, so politically inept that he had raised almost no campaign money...
View ArticleSave the trees
Allow me to make a proposal for what I think will be civic betterment: The cutting of mature trees on private property should be subject to permit the same as any other major alteration to one’s...
View ArticleTrump, yet again
How to describe Donald Trump — buffoon, flimflam artist, liar, bigot, egomaniac, demagogue? All have been tried, but none seem adequate. He began to make a name for himself in politics by questioning...
View ArticleParis report
The French are strange people, I concluded after a week of exploring Paris. First off, they wear pants, if you can imagine such a thing, and not just pants, but shirts also, many of them, and leather...
View ArticleGrab ’em by the what?
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve had it. I’ve reached my limit. I hereby withdraw my support from Donald Trump. Until now I’ve thought maybe he is the president that America deserves. He is certainly the...
View ArticleElection prediction
The winner will be someone who is despised by more than half the country, and that half of the country will not be reconciled to the outcome but will continue to despise the winner and resist his or...
View ArticleMarv Cermak’s last wish
My old friend Marv Cermak finally got his wish — after five and a half years of bitter suffering, he died. He could hardly walk, hardly open and close his hands, hardly endure the constant pain. “I...
View ArticleAt last, a therapy pig
Surely the American people’s mawkishness over animals has reached its endpoint with the introduction to Albany International Airport of a therapy pig. I should have known it would come to this. I was...
View ArticleIsraeli general’s son
One event I’m looking forward to is the talk this coming Tuesday (Jan. 17) by Miko Peled, the San Diego-based activist who comes from a distinguished Israeli military family and now campaigns on behalf...
View ArticleA dubious bet
I dropped in at the new casino in Schenectady the other day, just to check it out, and let me tell you, despite all the hype about transforming Schenectady into a place that people want to go to rather...
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