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NY Times: More than 200 Bush, McCain and Romney Staffers Endorse Harris
Bush, McCain, and Romney Alumni for Harris Statement “Four years ago, President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, and then-Gov. Mitt Romney alumni came together to warn fellow Republicans that re-electing President Trump would be a disaster for our nation. In those declarations we stated the plain truth, each predicting that another four years of a Trump presidency...
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August 27, 2024
What Would Lincoln Say?
In the midst of relentless hyper-partisanship and division, I wondered what Abraham Lincoln’s take would be. Here’s what he might have said. “America can be likened to a magnificent tapestry,” he said, “with each individual thread contributing to the overall fabric of our nation. No single thread holds more power than another. If our citizens come together with unwavering faith...
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July 23, 2024
When Hate Becomes the Only Answer
Embed from Getty Images Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is a stark sign that political hate speech has taken on an urgency we have not seen in decades and has reinforced the belief that the upcoming presidential election is a battle between “Us vs. Them.” Identity politics has reached a point where we see each, not as...
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July 15, 2024
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The Ethics of AI
Last Tuesday, I informed readers that I used an AI program to create a commentary celebrating the 4th of July. The program is ChatGPT, a generative AI program developed by OpenAI and publicly released in 2022. The program is remarkable in its vast knowledge and ability to generate written text in various formats and lengths, and it does so in...
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July 12, 2024
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BREAKING NEWS: Based on Presidential Immunity, President Joe Biden Indefinitely Suspends November Election . . . (Must be right. I read it on X)
Thank you: Chief Justice Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Jr., Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh.  » Read more about: BREAKING NEWS: Based on Presidential Immunity, President Joe Biden Indefinitely Suspends November Election . . . (Must be right. I read it on X)  »...
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July 1, 2024
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The Ghost and The Darkness
Last week left us gasping after the first presidential debate and apprehensive about what to expect from the Supreme Court this morning about Trump’s total immunity case. (Now we know the answer to the second issue.) Let’s begin with the obvious. Joe Biden did not have a good debate night. He had a disastrous debate night. Despite the rah, rah...
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July 1, 2024
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Say it Ain’t So, Joe
Yesterday, during a nap, I had a dream. In the dream, a young boy looked up at a man whom he admired, a man who stood for the right thing, a man who persevered during the toughest of times. But when that same man was overwhelmed by an avalanche of lies, bowed his head and . . . gave up....
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June 28, 2024
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Trump Supporters: Read This Ahead of Tonight’s Debate
If you are a Trump supporter, you need to seriously consider the observations of the people who worked closely with him during his 4 years in office: “His understanding of global events . . . of US history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking...
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June 27, 2024
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Justice, Kindness, and Faith Renewed
With all the recent attacks on judges, this profile of a former municipal judge in Providence, Rhode Island is just too compelling and important to ignore. And it has overwhelmed social media with hundreds of millions of views. CBS reporter David Begnaud begins the story. “‘I’m just a small-town municipal court judge, just trying to do good.’ That’s what 80-year-old...
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June 25, 2024
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#I STAND WITH EVAN
Journalism should never be a crime. Yet, Russia’s dictator, Vladimir Putin, has a different definition. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal, will face trial in Russia next week on espionage charges. “When such espionage cases go to trial in Russia,” Yevgeny Smirnov, a Russian lawyer who has worked...
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June 21, 2024

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Who Watches the Algorithm?
We are building machines that may soon judge, persuade, police, diagnose, hire, fire, and even help governments decide whom to trust. Yet we still have...
He Just Does His Job
I’ve been listening to and watching Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia for more than a year now: his speeches, his questions in Senate hearings,...
Why Donald Trump Has Pulled Me Back In—Again
Last August, I wrote that I was “stepping back from the chaos” of Donald Trump. I meant to write about his presidency only when his...
Scott Pelley Responds
During a contentious staff meeting at 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley spoke out sharply, criticizing the judgment and decision-making of CBS News editor in chief Bari...
The Clock is Still Ticking. But Now It’s Ticking for CBS
I began watching 60 Minutes when it premiered on September 24, 1968, when Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace introduced a new kind of television journalism:...
God Has Chosen Donald Trump
At a Trump-backed Christian prayer rally on the National Mall in Washington on May 17, officially called Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise...