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Joy in the Morning

The dawn of the new day in America actually came at dusk last night at the Reflection Pool flowing out from the Lincoln Memorial. The hundreds of lights that lined the pool to pay silent tribute to the 400 thousand Americans who died from the virus that has consumed the country. A few brief words

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Breaking News

There was no shortage of important news stories this year that effected just about everyone and will change the world going forward. The latest news comes right to our phone. The philosophy of every news organization should be, be right and be first, in that order. The use of “Breaking News” started years ago on

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Beginning of the End

Today can be seen as the first day of the rest of our lives. The Pfizer vaccine to conquer Covid started going into the arms of health care workers across the country, and the Electoral College started voting today to finally and officially designate Joe Biden as the next president. Despite Donald Trump delusions that

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Big Boy Pants

It’s now been three weeks that Donald Trump has tried to hold the country hostage. His grip on his alternate reality is starting to slip away. His spoiled child act that he really didn’t lose the election has continued to embarrass the country before the world. Kids who don’t get what the want will throw

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“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”

We are living through one of the most consequential and extraordinary weeks in American political history. The Trump presidency has come crashing down even though,  to quote Jack Nicholson’s famous line, “You (Trump) can’t handle the truth.” We all knew Trump would not go down without a fight. He has threatened all along that if

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“All These Idiots”

Two weeks to go. The desperation and fear is growing. Covid is not only sickening and killing thousands of people every day, it looks like it’s going to be fatal to Trump’s re-election. I know it’s not over, until it’s over, but Trump has now finally gone all out after his nemesis, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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From Wuhan to the White House

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any crazier, it did. It was a week ago tonight that President Trump tweeted that he and the First Lady tested positive for Covid 19. This after he returned from a private fund raiser at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey after he found out that Hope

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Unhinged

It was a live American horror show. Three and half years of the Trump madness spewing out for the most frightening 90 minutes in the history of presidential politics, We’ve seen and heard it all on a daily basis for so long, we’ve grown exhausted and numb. Last night’s presidential debate wasn’t really a debate,

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Jesus 2020

This was a sad and frightening week in a year that’s had more weeks that were once thought unimaginable. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lost her gallant fight against cancer in hopes of outlasting the Trump presidency. There couldn’t be two people more different. Could you imagine the outpouring of admiration and respect for

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Day at the Beach

You can’t escape it. It’s everywhere. The election. It’s even at the beach. We’ve all seen the planes fly over the beach with the banners advertising a local bar, restaurant, or a product we don’t really need. While sitting on a Jersey shore beach yesterday after two weeks of political conventions, you think you could

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