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Bloomberg The Nanny

Good for Mike Bloomberg. During his first debate, he slammed Bernie Sanders by saying: “We’re not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism, and it just didn’t work!” Exactly right. It’s safe to say Bloomberg is not a ...

The Good Life: Joe Scarnati Provided A Memorable Two Decades

Journalists can have up-and-down relationships with politicians. We need each other. At times, our jobs conflict, and we tend to dislike each other. At other times, our goals synchronize and we like each other — for a while. I like to think that I have a friendly relationship with ...

The Reason They Support Trump Isn’t About Him

Editor’s note: Adriana Cohen is off this week. The following column is by Salena Zito. WESTBY, Wisconsin — Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with ...

Canine Companion: Dogs Say ‘I Love You’ Through Touch

My dog needs to be touching me at all times. He follows me around the house. He sleeps in bed with me. He barks if something is unusual. He has helped me through hard times and enjoyed adventures in the good times. He rides in the front seat of my car when we go places. He’s been with me ...

Crooked Big Shots Get A Break

Irving Kristol, a New York intellectual and youthful communist who became a guru of the American right, once defined a neoconservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” Thanks to Donald Trump, we have a new definition of a criminal justice reformer: a rich person who is ...

Stop, Question And Frisk

Before former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg threw his hat into the 2020 presidential race, he defended the New York Police Department’s use of “stop, question and frisk” policing. At a United States Naval Academy’s 2019 Leadership Conference, Bloomberg said, “We focused on ...