Would you have voted for Trump if you knew beforehand his cabinet picks?
Here’s the nice part about the 2024 Presidential election results: within hearing distance, there’s not a single Democrat complaining that the race was rigged.
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Michael Olesker
Trump delivers nonsensical debate line about immigrants: “In Springfield, they are eating dogs”
Ronald Reagan did himself a lot of good when he ran against Walter Mondale. Reagan was 73, which was considered old. Reagan quipped, “I want you to know that I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Mondale was 56.
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Robert Kennedy Jr. stains family legacy with endorsement of Donald Trump
It was an irony of history that Ehrlich picked a Black running mate and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did not. She picked a white man with a military background so that she wouldn’t be branded too liberal by Ehrlich.
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Baltimore will never forget Babe Ruth
Three-quarters of a century since George Herman (Babe) Ruth took his final breath, his hometown folks have not forgotten him.
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Americans have grown numb to tales of political crimes as the US Supreme Court moves at a snail’s pace
BALTIMORE – People around here used to boast, sarcastically, that we led the league in political corruption. After all, we
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Remembering Graduation
But I’ve made up for a single graduation absence by showing up for more than a dozen others – glad occasions where various schools, high school, and college, invited me to be their commencement speaker, in that extended era when I was writing nightly TV commentaries and thrice-weekly newspaper columns.
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O.J. Simpson’s Verdict Showed us the Distance in America’s Racial Divide
The verdict that acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering two people, one of whom was his wife, painfully revealed the lingering American racial divide as we’d rarely seen it before.
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Peter Angelos’ hometown loyalty should not be forgotten
Peter Angelos goes to his grave, at 94, as the most vilified guy in town. The man who owned the Baltimore Orioles for three decades should have been a hero around here, but he couldn’t get out of his own way.
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Carroll County Public School System bows to Moms for Liberty and bans books on sex
BALTIMORE – The great thinkers in the Carroll County public school system believe they’re doing their students a favor. The
Read moreOrioles stadium issues bring back memories of the Mayflower vans moving the Colts
We’re sensitive souls around here. We don’t like it when people in power fail to tell us the whole truth. We saw it happen precisely 40 years ago this week with our pro football team, and now a few questions linger about our baseball team.
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