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Environmental Setback

Zou Ji The U.S. Supreme Court’s surprising decision this week to block the Obama administration’s attempt to regulate emissions from coal-fired electricity plants demonstrates another important reason why a Democrat should be elected president.  Though the 5-4 vote was only a stay of the Obama action, its many industry and state government opponents are gearing […]

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A Badge on Their Shoulder

This week, I had a date with a judge. A male judge. No, not in a bar – before the bar. The South County Courthouse in Delray Beach, Florida. I was there to challenge a traffic ticket. I was successful – and paid a fine of $131. How is that possible, you ask? Good question. […]

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Hark! He speaketh.

Clarence Thomas   BULLETIN! Close on the heels of the sudden death of one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most controversial members, another justice today (Feb. 29) experienced a serious health issue — except this one was salutary. Observers of the court had surmised that for 10 years, Justice Clarence Thomas suffered under a mute condition, had a somnambulistic […]

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Bernie Better for Blacks

Bernie Sanders   If Bernie Sanders got half the black vote, he’d beat Hillary Clinton hands down, in my not-so humble opinion. The Southern states have killed him, but Michigan seems to have been a game changer. Hillary was counting on a victory there to consolidate her candidacy and move forward to the nomination.   […]

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Jazz — No Jive

Mark Doyle   On Saturday night in the Palm Beaches, jazz   was   breaking out all O-o-Verrrrr! Swing into spring was the unsung, but musical, theme as two excellent bands performed in disparate locations. At the Wine Scene near downtown West Palm Beach, the Mark Doyle Trio was cookin’, with Mark’s piano inventions and abundant technique […]

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Alas, poor Your. Ick.

The best evidence of the deterioration of quality in our society is, in my view, the misuse of your. Ladies and gentlemen, your is an adjective, not a noun or pronoun. It is a possessive adjective. And, being possessive, it gets offended, even jealous, when you use it in a way that it’s not supposed […]

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Autism no measly problem

Robert De Niro   The monied medical establishment won a victory this week in its fight against the anti-vaccine movement. Just a day after he urged a showing of the film Vaxxed at the Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro bowed to scientists’ pressure to remove it. DeNiro co-founded the festival. The movie, directed by […]

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Manalapan Show Slashes Price in Half

THIS JUST IN!!! The show Reflections tonight at the Palm Beaches Theatre in Manalapan is offering its remaining tickets at half price. Original prices were $42, $52 and $62. Now, all tickets can be purchased for $21 by going to this link: https://www.goldstar.com/shows/1117939/checkout/new A troupe of six dancers performs to the acoustic guitar music of […]

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Soliloquy

William Shakespeare   Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day – and as it approaches, I’m getting more and more excited. I’m set Monday to talk about my book MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died at the Lantana Road Branch Library. The librarian called to […]

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