Around Town – Dec. 2

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Dec. 2

Orchids to

the lawmakers from both parties for asking for a congressional review of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

a very festive and joyful concert by the Columbus City Band.

Pope Leo for reaffirming the two states solution for Palestine as the only way to achieve peace and justice on both sides.

Onions to

the elected one for putting our troops in deadly harm’s way in U.S. cities, where under different circumstances, they could be tourists, not targets.

the “Pirates of the Caribbean” MAGA version and no happy ending.

the White House’s latest attack on the media by launching a webpage that publicly criticizes and catalogs media organizations and journalists.

not realizing Ken Burns consulted many historians to include some of those less-known tragedies in his “The American Revolution” documentary.

the elected official who is responsible for two National Guardsmen being shot in Washington, D.C., if he hadn’t sent them there, both would be alive today.

our leader who claims to be against drug trafficking, yet just pardoned the biggest drug trafficker ever because a friend requested him to do so.