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In the last six months Boone County has seen two exemplary public servants step down. In January Karen Miller left the Southern District County Commission…
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Please indulge a few seconds of personal history. One of the reasons Columbia College, where I teach, has prospered in recent years is its online program.…
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Remember Pope Benedict the Sixteenth? I’ll return to him in a moment.The news is so dynamic just now. It’s like waiting for the next shoe to drop from a…
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Here are three things Democrats should not do if they want to regain the majority.They should not be like Donald Trump and use profanity in public. Last…
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During the 1991 Gulf War military commanders kept talking about a “target-rich environment” in Iraq and Kuwait. And indeed it was. And so is American…
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An important part of the research I do for these commentaries is to listen – to my students and coworkers at Columbia College, at my church, over my…
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If, as the old saying goes, past performance is the best predictor of future behavior, then I have a pretty good idea of what we can expect from President…
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Next week I’ll give you most of my predictions for key elections. I’ll give you one today: Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election. I realize…
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Poor white people have been in the news a lot lately. Most obviously they are a target voting group and natural constituency for Donald Trump. But they…
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Have you noticed one of the side effects of reality TV? I guess people actually watch “Naked and Afraid” and “My 600-pound Self”. I only know about these…