By Bob Gaydos
The real question, of course, is whether these politicians are truly dumb, or just playing a cynical role that makes them sound dumb to a majority of Americans, but enhances their reputation with the core group of Republicans who vote for them, often against their own self-interest. The willfully dumb.

By Bob Gaydos
Pitchers are coddled to protect their arms. Why expose them to injury and embarrassment by making them bat when they haven’t been allowed to practice that skill for years? And why, for heavens sake, have a different set of rules when both leagues are under the auspices of Major League Baseball?

By Bob Gaydos
The GOP Big Tent today is flooded with angry white men and women who go to church and ignore what is preached. They believe what they’re told and have no use for compromise or, indeed, for government. And beware if you oppose them.

By Bob Gaydos
In his feigned outrage at ABC-TV’s George Stephanopoulos, Rand Paul inadvertently disclosed the underlying truth about today’s Republican Party: All Republicans are liars and everything they say is a lie.

By Bob Gaydos
Who are all those anti-Semites, Holocaust-deniers, Quanons, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists who snuck into the GOP while Liz Cheney wasn’t looking?

By Bob Gaydos
In the matter of Curt Schilling: Should stupidity or bigotry be reasons for disqualification from the Hall of Fame? (History says no.) And should baseball writers be the ones making that decision? Another life lesson from the sports pages.

By Bob Gaydos
It has worked for millions of alcoholics, it can work for Republican Trumpaholics, too. But they have to really want to change.

By Bob Gaydos
Mr. President … . It is my sense that millions of my fellow citizens, including many who did not vote for you, are grateful,to have survived an attempt to dismantle our democratic republic and are more than willing to do what is necessary to fix what we learned was broken.

By Bob Gaydos
Joe Biden faces a monumental task when he becomes president on January 20, but he will have full control of the Congress to back him up and, I believe, fervent support of a vast majority of Americans as well. That white mob that assaulted the capital was an embarrassment to this nation, but maybe a lesson as well. American exceptionalism was put to the lie.

By Bob Gaydos
Trump’s four years in office have been a non-stop assault on the rule of law and the principles laid out by the nation‘s founders more than two centuries ago. They have also been a gross insult to the office of the presidency as he has sought, by hook or by crook, to put his brand on it.