Thursday, September 28, 2017

Korea: Too much saber rattling, too little talk

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The public television series on the Vietnam War reveals lessons the U.S. failed to learn as it was engulfed by the struggle. Whate...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Immigration: Budweiser, Eisenhower and Trump with something in common

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Have you seen a recent Budweiser commercial in which Eberhard Anheuser meets Augustus Busch and they start a beer company in St. Louis?...
Friday, September 15, 2017

National debt to climb whoever wins budget-tax debate

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Congress won't ever block an increase in the debt ceiling. Threats to cap it are pure political grandstanding. Congress spends...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Ken Burns’ series on Vietnam shows the war that divided America

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We are about to start talking about the Vietnam War again. Not because of events in Korea, another divided Asian country, but because fi...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Trump, America’s second independent president, shuns both parties

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\ “Trump is exactly what Republicans are not,” former Missouri GOP Sen. John Danforth wrote recently. While that may seem extreme, t...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Trump continues campaigning; only Congress can save his presidency

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The government seems to be operating without a president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican like President Trump, ques...
Friday, August 18, 2017

GOP conservatives forced to confront Trump’s “base”

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The white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. provides strong evidence of the widening division in American politics. Presiden...