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The Donald Trump Follies: An Integrity Check for GOP Presidential Contenders

Anyone who agrees to participate in this offensive farce is unqualified to be President of the United States. Trump has created an excellent integrity test. Continue reading

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The Rick Perry-Birther Flap: An Addendum

Every additional word Rick Perry says to keep the Birther issue in the public eye is another reason—and there are already plenty—to keep him in Texas. Continue reading

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The Media’s Birther Smear On Rick Perry

The race for the Republican nomination for president has a long way to go, but the winner of the title of Republican Contender Most Unfairly Abused By The Media has probably been wrapped up. It’s Texas Governor Rick Perry, in a romp. Continue reading

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Jerk of the Year: Donald Trump

I dream, a futile dream, I know, that there will grow a national consensus, in the fake of the fiasco of The Donald’s last 60 days, that he is the Jerk of the Year, and that this consensus will lead to national resolve to treat Trump the way all jerks need to be treated, to give him the treatment that is also the one thing he couldn’t endure Continue reading

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Guess Who Invited Donald Trump to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner?

It was buried in the gossipy Style section, but there was the culprit. Who invited him?

The Washington Post invited him, that who. Continue reading

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Trump’s Lament

If Donald Trump had an ounce of class, perspective, humility, humor, common sense, decency or courage, he would accept the jibes, laugh, and offer the President an apology. Continue reading

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Colbert King, Obama Abuse, Bias and Double Standards

Republicans who excuse their low blows against Obama by citing the treatment of Bush get no passes from me. But I am also not going to regard with anything but contempt the laments of commentators who deride those low blows against Obama yet who cheered the same level of abuse against Bush. Their ideological bias cost them their objectivity and fairness, as well as my respect. If they can’t see that the unethical nature of the tactics isn’t mitigated by the identity of the president they are used against, then their opinions are both meaningless and useless. And if ethical exemplars like Colbert King fall into this trap, it is no wonder that our political discourse continues to decline. Continue reading

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Unethical U.S. Presidential Candidacies: Is Trump’s the All-Time Worst?

Donald Trump’s revolting candidacy, as yet unannounced, cannot fairly be called the most unethical presidential candidacy, but it is early yet. It may well prove to be one of the most harmful. As the United States faces some of the most difficult challenges in its history, Trump has chosen to use the nation’s process of deciding on its leader for his own ego gratification and self-promotion, without preparation for the job, deference to fair campaign rhetoric, or acknowledgment of his own fatal flaws as a candidate. Continue reading

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Donald Trump, Birther

Donald Trump, whose pseudo-entry into the Republican presidential sweepstakes has had the effect of making all the other candidates and near-candidates look classy by comparison, now is playing to form by playing the despicable birther card. It figures. Everything about Trump’s career, personal life and properties, even his hairstyle, has been an exercise in bad taste. Continue reading

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Are GOP Leaders Obligated to Condemn Doubters of Obama’s Birth and Beliefs?

“Meet the Press’s” Gregory’s attack on Speaker Boehner was unfair. When there’s a bi-partisan standard in effect, evenly applied, let me know. Continue reading

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