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(((PayPal.ME))) Why does Attorney General Jeff Sessions hate epileptic children?  Did one of them have a seizure during a photo-op and make wee-wee all over his Confederate dress grays?  Sure must have been something pretty awful for him to renounce the “states’ rights” mantra espoused by his ilk since

((( PayPalMe !))) A friend who writes a regular blog on government reform-related issues once observed that he always reached the most readers when he posted a Top Ten List of…just about anything.  A lengthy, carefully researched column never aroused as much response as a list of undocumented opinions arranged in

(((PayPal.Me))) From the December 3 edition of the New York Times: WASHINGTON — A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the

((( PayPalMe !))) (To paraphrase George Costanza’s assessment of his understanding of women, I probably know less about American race relations than…anyone on the planet.  The rural school district in which I was reared was home to one non-white family and I never had cause to speak with any of

(((PayPalME!))) I thought the time-wave that traces the course of American politics had hit rock bottom in about 1994, never suspecting another Bush was waiting in the wings to send it hurtling further downward.  Now, as the Roy Moore Senatorial campaign continues to plague the Republican Party and the nation,

((( PayPalMe !))) I probably shouldn’t acknowledge the fact to more sophisticated readers, but I’m a big fan of The Big Bang Theory, CBS’ dinosaur-of-a-comedy series which would have been canceled four years ago if they had anything with which to replace it but another cop show.  (“How about a