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A Post-Clemency Prosecution Shines a Light on a Broken System: Donald Trump Commuted Esformes' Sentence, but the DOJ Is Bent on Sending Him Back to Prison Jul. 07, 2023
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing ... Read More
Biden's Bad Deal Jun. 01, 2023
When you negotiate from a position of weakness, you get a lousy deal. When it's the best you can do,... Read More
Our Fake Spending Debates May. 31, 2023
This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden cut a deal to rais... Read More
Step Back or I'll Kill This White Man! May. 26, 2023
I'm a 66-year-old white man, and I'm more or less retired. I do a little writing, and I do a local n... Read More
Government Action or Inaction Kills People; What Do You Call That Crime? Mar. 29, 2023
When Stephen Paddock started firing an assault rifle into a crowd at a Las Vegas concert in October ... Read More
Social Security Reform About Principles, Not Accounting Feb. 15, 2023
Per CNN and other media outlets, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran his first campaign for Congress ... Read More
Social Security on the Cutting Block? Feb. 02, 2023
"We have no choice but to make hard decisions," Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern recently said. He leads the... Read More
Seniors Paid Into Social Security and Medicare. Hands Off Them, GOP Aug. 16, 2022
For the second time this year, a key Senate Republican has suggested that Social Security and Medica... Read More
The Failed Legacy of Johnson's 'Great Society' Jun. 23, 2022
When I was in Austin, Texas, last week, I took the opportunity to visit the Lyndon Baines Johnson Pr... Read More
Help for Hearing May. 23, 2022
Dear Annie: I would like to reply to "An Aging Adult Facing Reality." I, too, have profound hearing ... Read More
Obamacare Has Delivered, Over GOP Resistance. Voters Should Remember That. Feb. 03, 2022
The Affordable Care Act, which not that long ago appeared doomed by Republican determination to kill... Read More
Social Security Update for 2022 Dec. 29, 2021
It has been my custom for most of the past 24 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the S... Read More
Hello, No One Can Help You Dec. 25, 2021
"A supervisor will just write down your complaint and send a message. I just sent a message. There's... Read More
Ageism and Scam Artists Take a Toll on Older Americans Nov. 12, 2021
As reported last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics, along with the American Academy of Child ... Read More
The Government Could, and Should, Save Billions on Medicare Drug Prices Oct. 13, 2021
When the Biden administration proposed allowing the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug pr... Read More
We Can Stop Being the World's Suckers on Drug Prices Oct. 12, 2021
There's a drug war on TV. It has nothing to do with cocaine or heroin but does involve an addiction ... Read More
Democrats Spend Big, and We Pay, for Their Socialist Dream Sep. 15, 2021
In 1983, Tom Cruise starred in the film "Risky Business." It's about wealthy parents in Chicago who ... Read More
Proper Care for the Elderly Sep. 13, 2021
Dear Readers: Being a good neighbor can be more complicated than it sounds, at least when it comes t... Read More
