Thanksgiving Day has a history all its own, typical of American lifestyles and a time of thanks for the myriad benefits we receive. But we are winding down 2020 with one of the worst years of enormous change any of us has ever experienced.
What goes around comes around
Every Thanksgiving, we make a conscious effort to give thanks. This year, even in the midst of a pandemic, I’d encourage you to be genuinely grateful for everything you may take for granted. There is still so very much.
What’s the big deal?
We had an editorial set to bolster Palmdale’s quest for the Space Command branch headquarters when news sources announced Friday that our local community had failed to get selected as one of the top six locations still in the running.
The longer the vote-counting goes on, the more it seems the big bounce-back California Republicans expected this fall from the party’s significant congressional defeats of 2018 may be a halfway thing. Which would still be an achievement in the face of President-elect Joe Biden’s 4.4 million-…
WASHINGTON — This nation’s empirical and inquisitive Founders considered information conducive to improvement, which is one reason the Constitution mandates a decennial census.
Live from a bubble
Thanksgiving is two days away. For many of us adhering to the public health order guidelines associated with COVID-19, it’s going to be different this year. For those who lost loved ones this year, whether due to the virus or other reasons, holidays will never be the same.
Joe Biden won the White House, we are reminded almost daily, on his third try, having run unsuccessfully in both 1988 and 2008.
With negative news dominating the horrific cycles daily, there is at least one good report for the nation’s economy.
So how do I feel two weeks after our election? Awed and terrified. I am in awe at the expression of democracy that took place in America. It was our most impressive election since 1864 and maybe our most important since 1800. And yet, I am still terrified that, but for a few thousand votes i…
I hear that climate change will destroy much of the world.
You present to a physician with severe abdominal pain. He examines you and concludes that your ingrown toenails are the cause of your abdominal distress. He prescribes that you soak your feet in warm water but that does not bring relief to your abdominal pain.
That’s how it happened
After four years of attacking President Donald Trump as “illegitimate,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” “tyrant,” “dictator,” “racist,” “anti-Semitic,” “Russian stooge,” “traitor,” “grifter,” “xenophobe,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “ignorant,” “fat” and “lazy,” former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptiv…
Pity the poor authors whose books were released this week. Former president Barack Obama’s post-presidential memoir, “A Promised Land,” has rightly stolen the show.
Has Gov. Gavin Newsom just engaged in a case of “do as I say, not as I do?”
For more than two months, California airwaves were filled with political hype, in large part because of the unprecedented push for early voting caused by the Coronavirus pandemic and threats of a deliberate US Postal Service slowdown.
So, the blue wave fell short of expectations. Joe Biden will be the next president, but unless Democrats pull off an upset in the Georgia Senate runoffs — which, to be fair, they might, given the remarkable strength of their organizing efforts there — Mitch McConnell will still be the Senate…
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Massachusetts politicos spend an inordinate amount of time speculating about what will happen if Elizabeth Warren leaves the Senate to take another position.
Former president Barack Obama on Tuesday, published his well-defined book on his early life plus his political career, through his election as president and two-and-a-half years of his first of two terms.
Two reviews of how women changed the trajectory in the 2020 presidential campaign were published in nationally known newspapers.
WASHINGTON — Many see a wannabe despot barricaded in the bunker, stubby fingers clinging to the levers of power as words that mean nothing to him — democracy, electoral integrity, peaceful transition, constitutionality — swirl above.
Good people
Another wave of COVID-19 sweeps over the world, it seems that Pfizer and BioNTech are getting closer to creating an effective vaccine.
Thank a vet
Contrary to most predictions, Election Day brought no blue wave. While former Vice President Joe Biden won the presidency, it looks like the Republicans will keep the Senate.
During the summer, California showed signs of progress and counties slowly transitioned toward less restrictive tiers in the state’s reopening plan.
Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option?
Critical thinking
More than 130 Secret Service officers are said to be infected with Coronavirus or quarantining in the wake of Donald Trump’s campaign travel.
Joe Biden has reason to be proud; in the last 107 years, only three American presidential nominees have managed to defeat an elected, incumbent president who was seeking a second term. Let history show that the winning trio were all politically gifted leaders who became successful presidents…
The academic achievement gap between black and white students has proven resistant to most educational policy changes. Some say that educational expenditures explain the gap, but is that true? Look at educational per pupil expenditures: Baltimore city ranks fifth in the U.S. for per pupil sp…
The more things change …
This has certainly been a year to remember and not one we’re soon going to forget.
Yale University has fancy dining halls. They pay no property tax.
Relax. Breathe. Wait.
Stay safe
Maybe it was because the presidential election was just a few days away. Or maybe it was because I arrived at the airport a good two hours before my flight and had plenty of time. Or maybe it was because of the combative interview I recently had with the celebrity website TMZ. We will get to…
The surge is on. We knew it was coming, but we hoped it wouldn’t.
As the key committee behind the extremely flawed ethnic studies curriculum planned for California public schools gets set to ratify its pet project in a mid-November meeting, it’s become clear this plan will become a major quarrel between so-called progressives and every other stripe of Cali…
Unhappy with results
A core group of five well-seasoned reporters have provided prime details about President Donald Trump’s leadership misdirection in the horrific virus crisis.
Right now, we all have Georgia on our minds. It’s probably going to end up called for Joe Biden; his lead is razor-thin, but most observers expect it to survive a recount. And the January runoff races in Georgia offer Democrats their last chance to take the Senate.
There’s little glory in being the first Cabinet Secretary to be fired following President Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential election on Nov. 3.
Read the book
Predictable
The 46th president of the United States of America was chosen by enormous vote tallies from eager millions of the nation’s citizens, all patriotic heroes acting firmly after four years of anxiety and virus deaths, including many losses which could have been avoided.
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