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Recently, I received a letter notifying me that I was registered to vote, not for an upcoming election, but for the long-past March Massachusetts presidential primary. At first I found this comical, but then it got me thinking: What if this letter had informed me that my registration was inaccurate? What if my address was wrong, or my name was misspelled? Unfortunately, the answer is simple: My absentee ballot might not have been counted.
Americans' trust in government institutions has plummeted over recent decades. We have experienced huge declines in confidence across the board, including for Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, even the Defense Department and the Food and Drug Administration.
The amount of time the Republicans spent the first two nights attacking Hillary Clinton as secretary of state for disproven criminal negligence at the consulate in Benghazi is disheartening. Where is there an Eisenhower or a Taft or a Ralph Flanders when the Party of Lincoln needs them so badly? Instead, the 21st century Republican Party is defined by unrestrained hatred.
TAKE A MOMENT and jump ahead from the hot rhetoric of last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Let's even look beyond this week's Democratic fest in Philadelphia.
I watched the Republican convention this past week. I've never particularly liked political conventions of any flavor because they're constantly sprinkled with outbreaks of embarrassing herd-instinct mantras.
The only person who could have challenged Ronald Reagan's once-unquestioned position as the most influential Republican President of the second half of the 20th century was Richard Nixon - the only person other than FDR to run on five different national tickets. He, of course, left office in disgrace - resigning before he was impeached and removed from office over Watergate.
Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees Ronald Reagan, center, and George H.W. Bush, left, wave at supporters at the1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit. Former president Gerald R. Ford stands behind Reagan.
So far, so good. Boris Johnson, the face of the "Out" side in last month's Brexit referendum and now Britain's new Foreign Secretary, got through his first encounter with the 27 other foreign ministers of European Union countries on Monday without insulting anybody.
Hyannis, Mass.: After hearing Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka's speech about her dad, my thought was, Hillary Clinton has her job cut out for her. When Trump finally came on stage, the demagoguery overshadowed the compassionate wise father Ivanka described; his speech was inflammatory, hateful and inaccurate.
As Heidi Cruz left Cleveland's Quicken Loans arena after her husband, Ted, gave his stemwinder at the Republican National Convention, she was escorted by security through a hostile crowd. Apparently, people in the audience were annoyed that Cruz hadn't endorsed Donald “I Call Him Lyin' Ted” Trump.
I was very concerned about the story of the Pokemon Go shooting in Palm Coast. I have spent over 26 years in law enforcement and twice a year received two full days of training on use of deadly force and its consequences.
As Donald J. Trump made his exhilarating run through the Republican primaries, the last thing anyone would have predicted was that the culmination of his takeover of the GOP would be, well, boring. People expected blood on the floor as the #NeverTrump die-hards went down swinging.
The theme of the Republican National Convention's second night was "Make America Work Again." As Tuesday came to an end, we knew no more about what Donald Trump and the party that officially nominated him would do to make America work again.
Political conventions are echo chambers designed to generate feelings of invincibility, sending forth the party faithful with a spring in their steps and hope in their hearts. Who would want to be a wet blanket at such moveable feasts? Steve Munisteri would.
Re: "Thunderous boos for Cruz for refusing to endorse Trump" [News, July 21]: With reference to Ted Cruz not endorsing Trump, the main question is this: Is there anything Trump could have said or done after Cruz's promise to endorse that would ethically allow Cruz to withdraw his promise? If Trumps insulting Cruz's family is not enough, what if Trump said something even bombastic for him? Or what if there was a scandal of some sort involving him? At what point do we stop saying the pedantic phrase "A promise is a promise"? Promises are predicated on those involved behaving in a way that is rational and moral to a reasonable person.
Maria Altmann, the claimant of five Nazi-looted Klimt paintings in the 2015 film "Woman in Gold." Photo from Wikipedia Seventy-one years after the end of World War II, the struggle for Holocaust justice continues.
The presidential campaigning has gone on for over a year and we're just now getting to the official nomination of candidates for the two major parties. Many voters already have campaign fatigue.
FILE: What is very clear, however, is that the labyrinthine web of suspicion orbiting around the two former Attorneys General and others brought into their sphere is a matter of high public interest. What is very clear, however, is that the labyrinthine web of suspicion orbiting around the two former Attorneys General and others brought into their sphere is a matter of high public interest.