Cuomo accusers: trust but verify

(Photo by Jeenah Moon/Getty Images) If we believe the headlines, it's time to run the hot shower to clean off the sleaze. It appears Andrew Cuomo has fallen from America’s covid-hero Governor to just another fanny-grabbing, sexually inappropriate power-stoked politician.  Whether he’ll have to pay the price for it - along with his deceptively hiding …

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Dems first debate: too soon for judging winners and losers?

Did we really shift from a Biden-someone to a Warren-Castro  to Harris-Buttigieg "winning" ticket overnight?  Unlikely. We are at a blip in time. There's a long way to go. Remember the lack of poll and pundit support Donald Trump had after his first debates?  Remember George W. Bush "lost" a major presidential debate to John …

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Military moves (slowly) on sexual assault

Reports of rape and sexual assault were up 50 percent last year, according to a Pentagon study released on Thursday.  What's unclear is whether that reflects more reporting or more assaults.  And what of the record in bringing justice to victims (of both sexes, by the way)? Recently, the U. S. Navy  reassigned a Blue Angels …

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