John Culleton

Trump has sealed his own fate by his multiple misdeeds and broken promises. He can’t run against Hillary Clinton because she won’t be on the ballot. In all likelihood his opponent will be Joe Biden but any of the top five Democrats can beat him.

The recent spate of mass murders by mentally unstable individuals indicates that the Second Amendment rights should be limited to members of militias.

Our current president has declared himself the greatest holder of that office in history. There is a sermon in the New testament that warns against such self-glorification. More recently the poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley makes the point.

John Delaney has positioned himself as a unifier, pledging that as president, he would work to resolve America’s increasing political polarization.

It is difficult to see how any citizen can continue supporting a president who uses the abuse of abuse of children as a political tool.

Biden is my favorite for the usual reason — he has the best chance of trumping Donald Trump.

Trump and his supporters have one huge advantage over their opponents. They are not bound by any moral code.

Turning to to the Democratic field, former Vice President Joe Biden leads the pack and is my personal choice for presidential candidate.

Previous successful presidents from that party can be exemplars of what we should look for. The founding president for the Republican party was Abraham Lincoln. He showed great empathy for people of color. A modern Republican president should do no less.

Believe it or not I have a relative who is as loyal a Republican as I am loyal to the Democratic Party. We do agree on two things.

Our president should set a 48-hour deadline for the withdrawal of these troops and the immediate cessation of arms shipments to Venezuela. If the deadline is not met, the USA should remove them by force. However, our president will not offend his Russian heartthrob. Putin helped get him elected.

There is debate over how much of this climate change is caused by human activity. But the massive increase of the use of fossil fuels is a likely suspect. If we switch from fossil fuels to electric power the degree of climate change may be slowed.

Unwelcome messages to the family house phone fall in two categories: sales calls and scams.

Paul Anderson once said that “A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his efforts." President Donald Trump is such a fanatic.

The Christmas edition of this column suggested that readers share the guidance and examples of parents in addition to traditional presents. The reply cited below should educate and inspire all of us.