A little bit of everything
Ten years since the Freddie Gray riots, there’s a voice in my head that has never gone away. The voice is CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, as he gazed from a safe studio in Washington at the fire and the fury outside a pharmacy in West Baltimore.
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Let’s get Trump’s cheap shot toward his predecessor out of the way first. It wasn’t Joe Biden who went after Trump, it was prosecutors in three states and the District of Columbia who had enough evidence to believe he had committed crimes.
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As the Trump administration does its best to ignore vulnerable children, terrorize immigrants with dark skin, and cut thousands of government workers from their livelihoods, a question lingers in the air.
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In his stupefying crusade against the polio vaccine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ought to imagine the ghostly figure of Robert Harris, who was one of the millions of children born – and departed – too soon to be saved.
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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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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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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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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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BALTIMORE – People around here used to boast, sarcastically, that we led the league in political corruption. After all, we
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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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