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It was not that long ago that Lake Travis was dry, with forms showing on the bottom of the lake.

Lampert also wanted Sears' excellent mall locations. He seems to have had no interest in operating Sears as a successful store.

Trump does not look compassionate or sympathetic. He looks angry more than anything else. How dare these people look to his government for help?

We may find that a large number of victims washed out to sea and disappeared. We may never know their fate.

Stephen Miller is trying to reinstate the separation of children from their families on the grounds that the first cycle was a deterrent to illegal immigration.

Is it rain from Hurricane Michael?

The weather maps seem to show Michael going beyond

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Virginia to cover southern New England. That may explain our current heavy rain.

I would vehemently oppose the appointment of Joe LIEberman as ambassador to the United Nations. He cannot see large pictures and thinks only in terms of Israel’s needs and wants.

I wonder whethet continued downturns in the stock market might hurt Trump and the Repuglicans.

There is yet another reason for speaking and writing at FDR's level. Many Americans have English as a second language. Not all can handle it at the high level they handle their native languages. They also deserve to hear and read.

I am trying to build up our future leaders. Except for wizards of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, that price is a bit steep for people in the early stages of their careers. In other words, I have faith that Hillary and Bill can shape ideas and lives and want them heard.

I think it is true that the unity of the United Kingdom may turn on avoiding Brexit.

I think I would love to be on the right side of a commercial airliner when SpaceX launches.

Hillary and Bill will do a multi-city speaking tour after the midterms. Their stated aim is to reunite the Democratic Party. Live Nation will sell you a ticket for between $70 and $699. If the couple wishes to have a productive impact on the future, let them speak with people under age 35. And don’t...

Are the little lights reusable modules? Fighter planes?

Sometimes our law enforcement does its job. But 120 kids? Who let that happen?

There are ideas that Nikki Haley has expressed and some actions that she has advocated (e.g., Iran nuclear and Human Rights) with which I do not agree. However, she is closer to what Andrew Sullivan (and I) have been advocating as Oakeshottian conservatism thsn anyone else now in the Trump maladmini...

As I recall, there was bipartisan controversy from the start about the establishment of what is now the third-'largest Cabinet department. ICE is the largest law-enforcement agency in all government. I view DHS and the PATRIOT act as panicked responses to a situation that was unparalleled in America...

Is it conceivable that the Tories will give up on Brexit? It seems to me to be exceedingly dumb.

The "Department of Homeland Security" was embedded in legislation that threatens American rights. It always struck me as semi-Fascist. I agree those agencies ought to go back where they originated -- abd probably be reduced in size. Some do belong in DoJ, others maybe in Commerce. FEMA might do perf...

It is hard for me to see the taking of asylum-seekers' children as anything other than a form of punishment intended to frighten future asylum-seekers. I detest Stephen Miller so thoroughly that I would be happy to attribute this policy solely to him. That may be correct, akthogh I do not understand...

I doubt that Ivanka will be interested. UN ambassador is too much work for a professional kibitzer.

The report of the IPCC panel is being read as if a step function describes climate change: act responsibly within the next 12 years and your planet will remain habitable. . There may well be step functions in climate change -- collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf comes to mind. But the IPCC panel is not t...

i have started to read again Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. There is nothing "deep" about these books, but they do take a look from outside at our culture and society. Budd is the bastard son (his term) of a Connecticut weapons manufacturer. He grew up on the French Mediterranean coast and has ...

The retiring President of the University of Connecticut, a political scientist who studies political dialogue, says this about the students. It accords with my own experience. To our students, especially: you are the future, and you are the best thing about our campuses and our community. As I say a...