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  • International Criminal Court: Sauce for the Goose

    Thomas L. Knapp, Columnist|Mar 30, 2023

    How much does a mug shot mean to you? To Alvin Bragg, it apparently means quite a lot. All signs point to Bragg, the progressive prosecutor in Manhattan, indicting Donald Trump for his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. The old Karl Marx line is that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. This historic first-ever indictment of a former president of the United States would skip straight to farce. First, there's the tawdry and relatively trivial subject matter. Trump...

  • An Unkind Reflection and a Call for Kindness

    Thomas L. Knapp, Columnist|Jan 26, 2023

    There's no nice way to put this, so I'll cut right to the chase: Last night, my brother Mike collapsed and, as a result of a massive brain bleed, died hours later. For obvious reasons, I considered taking a day off from my writing schedule. For other obvious reasons I considered writing a eulogy about the man who was my idol from childhood -- among other things, a star athlete, a career Marine, and my constant competition in a contest to see who could be the family's blackest sheep. He was a goo...

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