Ed note: To my off-Cape and out-of-state readers this Cape Cod Times op-ed is about a Barnstable County campaign. The application for a criminal complaint, which I predicted would not go far, was denied this morning. Thomas Johnson of Harwich Port includes a fundamental contradiction in his “My View” piece on July 9, “Consider Azzato to replace…
Month: July 2016
Irony in Philadelphia
On the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention ironies abound. The Wikileaks release of email and other documents hacked from the Democratic National Committee has caused great embarrassment to Hillary Clinton supporters at the DNC. Many of the Democrats, now outraged by the hacking, supported Edward Snowden, employee of a National Security Agency…
Justice out of line
Boston Herald letter, July 21, 2016 Donald Trump is entitled to express his political opinions, no matter how silly, as is Herald columnist Peter Gelzinis. (“If Trump can speak his mind, why can’t RBG?,” July 14). U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as a sitting judge, is not. Judges have political opinions, of course,…
Convention Drama At Last; Cruz’s Big Moment
Senator Ted Cruz addresses the Republican National Convention tonight. To secure his participation Donald Trump’s convention managers (if that’s what they can be called) had to agree to let him be the only speaker whose remarks have not been cleared in advance. So …. will he or won’t he? Cruz fancies himself the legatee of…
What we can learn from the British: Quickly elect leaders who reflect the party
July 14, 2016. Republicans and Democrats are a year into a painful political season with months still to go before the election, both stuck with candidates no one likes very much. I propose below a way to select party leaders more reflective of the views of party members. And do it quickly too. ` In…
Hillary skates again
July 6, 2016. Not many Americans will see more than brief news clips of the statement yesterday by FBI Director James Comey. They should read it all. The FBI was investigating whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for State Department business violated the Espionage statutes and…
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