The Republicans started their own fire. But Donald Trump is a whole new kind of arsonist and the party's now burning out of control
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Here's a radical idea for politicians hoping to make an impact: tell the truth instead of offering false hope, like France's Manuel Valls.
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In which your humble author vents his spleen indiscriminately about things that happen to be in the news.
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