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‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection

Ford, Fiat-Chrysler returning to pre-coronavirus production levels

Amy Klobuchar drops out of Biden VP contention — endorses ‘woman of color’

Portland: George Washington statue torn down, draped in bunting U.S. flag

California enacts November mail-ballot law — with surprising GOP support

U.S. coronavirus cases surge by more than 27,000 in a day

Congress plans to target Big Tech for circulating Chinese propaganda

Anthony Fauci: Americans ‘don’t believe science’ or ‘authority’

Fox News poll: Biden extends lead over Trump amid protests

Trump administration considers executive order to suspend certain work visas

Oklahoma National Guard activates 250 solders for security at Trump Tulsa rally

Abrams pitches for VP: ‘I understand the moment’ I was an activist

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Reports: UK to cut Huawei’s involvement in 5G

New York coronavirus fatalities fall to lowest level since March

24 states still have uncontrolled spread ...

Gov. Wolf: Pennsylvania cannot return to normal without ‘foolproof’ vaccine

Grenell moving to declassify Flynn-Kislyak transcripts

Coronavirus live updates: National park’s could be this summer’s go-to vacation spots

Los Angeles turns hot spot ...

Poll: More voters trust Trump over Biden on economic recovery

Trump ordered states to open churches. Can he do that?

Trump administration warms up to sending out more virus relief money

Massive fire erupts at San Fran’s iconic Fisherman’s Wharf

Audio resurfaces of Klobuchar suggesting husband took hydroxychloroquine

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Cracks start to show in Taliban peace deal

After testing a 5G phone for a week, I’m not sold on the 5G revolution

Virus may have spread unedited for 6 weeks inside USA ...

California poll:  Bernie maintains significant edge over Biden

Klobuchar rally in Minnesota canceled amid protests

Coronavirus live updates: New York Auto Show still on for April, Saudi Arabia confirms first case

Jack Welch, former CEO and chairman of GE, dies at 84 ...

SCOTIS to hear case that could scrap Obamacare

Sanders defends attacks on Israel’s Netanyahu

WHO says coronavirus cases outside China 9 times higher than inside

NKorca fires ‘short-range ballistic missiles’ ...

Taliban ends ‘peach deal’ with U.S. after Afghan president balks

Quotable Quote

"There are pro-life Democrats, and they are part of our party. We need to build a big tent. We need to bring people in instead of shutting them out." — Amy Klobuchar

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Klobuchar joins the swelling ranks of Democrats with a shot

‘Crisis mode’: Coronavirus disrupts heart of electronics manufacturing in China

Buttigieg edges Sanders in latest poll ...

Actor-comedian Orson Bean [91] hit and killed by car in L.A.

Justice Dept.: Mueller prepared no reports to Congress

Wall Street analysts have never been this bearish on Tesla

Iowa turnout prompts concern about [Democrat] enthusiasm ...

Warren: I’ll take donations from Bloomberg

Debate shows despiration of everyone but Bernie

Consumer prices have jumped the most since 2018

Beijing begins mass arrests of suspected [coronavirus] patients ...

Striking Hong Kong health workers demand shutting down of border with China

The Debate

I tortured myself last night by watching about an hour of the final Democrat debate in New Hampshire. What a bunch of myopic nothingness! I swear that the only candidate that was not embarrassingly pandering to “blacks, browns and people of color” was Amy Klobuchar (well maybe a little.) I must have heard the word “racism” snarled a hundred times. 

The rest of the arm-waving rhetoric was centered around various schemes to extract more tax money or silly ways to spend it. Do any of these candidates think beyond our shores ... or other than how to get minorities to vote for them? What about China’s hegemomy, federal deficits, stopping illegal immigration, entitlement spending, Muslim extremism, North Korea and Iran nukes, economic growth strategies, NATO policies, Middle East peace, etc.

One would think that the sun rises and sets on a very few domestic issues ... mostly of the vote-buying nature. What a waste of TV viewers’ time. The Democrats need to do something drastic if they don’t want to be swept away in November!

Name Game

Ever since Bill Clinton won the presidency over George H.W. Bush, the candidates with the fewer letters in their last name generally have won at the polls — Bush over Gore (tie), Bush over Kerry, Obama over McCain, Obama over Romney and, finally, Trump over Clinton.

Before that ... there were a few modern exceptions to this rule ... Carter over Ford, Eisenhower over Stevenson, Kennedy over Nixon and Raegan over Carter ... all of which can be explained away due to extenuating circumstances.

If this loopy trend holds, the only Democrat who has a chance against a Trump second term is (promising $1,000 per month per US resident) Yang ... while Biden ties. All the other possible Dem opponents ... Warren, Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders, Booker, Klobuchar, O’Rourke and Castro would suck wind.

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Klobuchar jumps into presidential race

As older Americans ‘age in place’ younger buyers struggle to find houses

Trump 52% approval jolts Washington, best in years

Texas lawmakers propose state wall funding

Poll: One third of Americans say blackface Halloween costumes are acceptable at times

CDC blames spike in teen tobacco use on vaping, popularity of Juul

Gallup: Optimism about personal finances 16 year high ...

Business lobby unite with GOP to strip Trump from implementing tariffs

Warren: Trump ‘may not even be a free person’ in 2020

iPhone shipments crash nearly 20% in China because Apple charges too much: IDC

Soros: Europe on cusp of nightmare ...

Trump to Dems: ‘Loosen up and have some fin’