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We’re an unlikely trio.

So often these days I find myself wishing we could find a way to make our politics and our public life reflect who we Americans really are.

The pandemic has spun off a number of curve balls, but if you’re a Hoosier mayor or city council member, grab your shades, because the future is bright.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg received a great deal of criticism lately for taking paternity leave. It is a time of snarled port traffic, understocked grocery shelves and growing worry about supply chains. I think these critiques are in bad faith and unworthy of an intellectually confident political movement. But, that’s where we are now. Congress could spend serious effort to ease logistics problems in any number of ways; the private sector is already at work. Outside of complaints about Mr. Buttigieg, Congress has been silent on the matter. Let me make three points.

Politico’s West Wing Playbook recently reported President Joe Biden has a “potty mouth.” I would have been surprised to read otherwise, but the breaking news gave some decent detail of his profanity habits for all the Americans who care to know such things. The story also threw in a predictable expletive tendency of Vice President Kamala Harris. The vulgarities of choice of anyone are meaningful to me, as a self-appointed guru of the art.

China recently launched a test missile that whirled around the entire planet traveling at five times the speed of sound and previewing hypersonic duplicates someday possibly threatening nuclear obliteration all over the place. Getting their adjectives mixed up, some say this could be the beginning of a second Cold War. The more worrisome issue could be a hot war.

I’ve got a secret.

There is an old axiom: “You need to step up to the plate.” This saying rings true today, especially in this day of social...

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In the throes of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, it seemed like most everyone eagerly awaited the development and approval of a vaccine that...