Last night’s final presidential debate for this election held about fifteen minutes of my attention before I returned to watching the Chicago Cubs work their way toward the World Series. But I heard Trump’s comments on supporting Hillary Clinton if

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Last night’s debate between the two vice-presidential candidates convinced me that such a program is a waste of time. First, it wasn’t really a debate.

A real debate is a formal activity where one side expresses all the reasons for

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It’s the first day of the Democratic National Convention, and pandemonium reigns.  It was supposed to be a contrast to last week’s Republican National Convention where pandemonium was invited as a front row participant.

But with the WikiLeaks regarding the

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The RNC convention is history, and the DNC convention starts Monday. So we’re halfway home with this political ritual. I wanted to watch more of the Republican convention than I did, but mostly I couldn’t stand it. In all fairness,

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First, a disclaimer: I am not a devotee of Donald Trump.

But this blog isn’t really about that. It’s about whether those in his party should unite behind their candidate for the sake of winning or should vote their consciences

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