Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Donald Trump
Well, Hillary Clinton’s very bad weekend just got a whole lot worse, and her campaign for the presidency may have been fatally compromised. By getting sick at the 911 memorial service in New York City on Sunday morning — and by her campaign’s initial claim that she was merely “overheated” — Clinton’s health is now…
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Donald Trump
Yep. Hillary Clinton has just made a deplorable mistake — one that may prove fatal to her run for the White House. By saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton has violated virtually every rule of campaigning. For one thing, she has denigrated not her…
Read More about Hillary’s “Deplorables”Donald Trump
There is a wonderfully creative television ad that’s running these days for Chase Bank. It’s that miniature pet pig prancing along the sidewalk to the music track of DiRealShaggy’s 1995 tune, “Boombastic.” The spot works on several levels. If you’ve seen it even once, you can immediately conjure in your head the heavily syncopated music,…
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I like to walk a lot, and most of the time when I stroll around town, I head back to the Fresno High area where I grew up. I’ll park my car near Hamilton Jr. High and then stroll in any direction that suits my fancy that particular day. It’s not unusual for me to…
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I’m worried about my vote. And your vote. I’m worried that this mad rush to a universal electronic voting system will mean that someone other than “us” will decide who gets how many votes, and who wins the contest. Already, Georgia relies solely upon electronic voting using a software program that is more than ten…
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Donald Trump
So here we are, on Labor Day weekend, and the final push is about to begin in this miserable, horrible race for the White House. No one can be sure how this is all going to play out, but there are a few things we know. First, this race is Hillary Clinton’s to lose —…
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[Originally published March, 2015 Central California Life Magazine. This version is updated and revised.] The latest in a series of Central Valley Honor Flights will depart from Fresno later this month with a group of World War II military veterans anxious to visit the many war memorials built in their honor in Washington, DC. Of…
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