If You Ask Me

No matter what happens in the coming months—to the pandemic, the economy or race relations — this country cannot take four more years of the division that Donald Trump’s presidency has foisted upon us.

Some of the students who spent their college years learning to oppose freedom of  speech that isn’t their own have graduated and are now promoting their heresy in other institutions, most notably the press.

And sadly, they have been successful at The New York Times, of all places. 

Seventy-two years ago this month, on June 26, 1948, President Harry Truman went against the advice of his top military aides and ordered “that there should be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin,” thereby ending racial segregation in the nation’s m

Having eliminated half of the best qualified Democratic vice presidential candidates by prematurely pledging to limit his choices to women, Joe Biden finds himself in something of a dilemma.

It was a story taxpayers, especially those laid off or furloughed by the pandemic, must have found quite interesting, not to mention the loan-burdened UConn students and their parents.  

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oe Biden came awfully close to being remembered as the candidate who won the presidential nomination and was never heard from again until the advantages of the incumbency proved to be too much for Donald Trump to handle.  

As our days of confinement extend into weeks, I’ve been remembering when those of us of a certain age, (i.e., old,) were confined to home and bed for what seemed like an eternity as we recovered from measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and other childhood diseases.

When the Dow Jones Industrial Average went up more than 2100 points, the most ever, on March 24, it was widely reported that the 11.4% increase was the biggest in 87 years — since 1933 in the depths of the Great Depression.