By Bob Gaydos
In one day, a million Americans stood in virtual solidarity with the Sioux. Is it too much to ask their president and would-be presidents to demonstrate the real thing?

By Bob Gaydos
A lot of people — a lot of white, Republican people — have a date with a mirror. It’s far too late to undo the damage Trump has done or to deny any part in it, but it’s not too late to admit the mistake of supporting him in spite of all the hateful, false things he said.

By Bob Gaydos
I do not blame Trump for being who he is. I simply detest him. I do, however, blame the Republican Party for infecting American society with this utterly degrading election campaign. I mean every elected Republican official who has stood silently by and let Trump make a mockery of our democratic system and lay waste to any sense of decency or decorum in selection of the most powerful political leader on the planet.

By Bob Gaydos
The eruption of scary clowns across America this fall is the inevitable culmination of a horrifying presidential campaign that began with the Republican Party’s infamous clown car of candidates and has devolved into a daily episode of a self-aggrandizing TV showman with bright, orange hair saying scary stuff about what he will do if he is elected president of the United States.

By Bob Gaydos
‘‘The time for being nice is over, Donald,” said Roger. “We’ve got to give your core supporters — the ones who don’t read — more red meat to consume. Bill’s affairs. That’s the ticket. Make them forget about your tax-dodging — and your draft-dodging, too, for that matter.”

By Bob Gaydos
Bankers don’t go to jail in this country. Drug company executives don’t go to jail in this country. Insurance executives don’t go to jail in this country. Wall Street brokers don’t go to jail in this country. In this country, a billionaire who doesn’t pay his employees, stiffs his creditors, brags about not paying taxes gets to run for president. The rich are never wrong.

By Bob Gaydos
In the opinion of The New York Times’ public editor, Times reporters must resist the arguments about false balance — giving political candidates’ statements, opinions and actions equal treatment even though the truth argues otherwise — because, in their distaste for Trump the reporters might be tempted to go easy on Clinton. Go ahead, finish laughing.

By Bob Gaydos
We need to focus on the issue at hand: Donald Trump, is the most dangerously ill-prepared candidate to ever run for president representing a major party. Hillary Clinton is one of the most-qualified persons to ever run for president and she is a woman. I submit those as pertinent facts.

By Michael Kaufman
In our region alone reports of white-on-white crime appear regularly in the media, although never identified as such. On the other hand I have heard many white people decry “black-on-black” crime when talking about shootings in black neighborhoods in cities such as Chicago and Detroit.

By Bob Gaydos
One of the most disappointing aspects of this presidential campaign is that not nearly enough people are angry and downright embarrassed that one of our two major political parties has handed its presidential nomination to a congenital liar. A bigot. A misogynist. A narcissist. … There I go again.