DAVID HEDGEPETH
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
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- Sep 29, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Daily News
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- Aug 12, 2026
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Paxton is the dangerous one; I'll back Talarico (opens the original)
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When I read the recent guest column by Mark Mansius and Bill Sargent â ("Unlike Paxton, Talarico has dangerous ideas," The Daily News, Sept. 24, 2026) â I immediately visualized a cartoon with four legs wiggling, sticking out the muck bucket of Republican talking points as these two dig to the bottom of it. Oh please, 17th-century elementary economic theory as a reason to vote for Ken Paxton? Really, is that all you got? There are so many proven successful Social Democratic programs in the U
That anti-bullying column spooked me there for a second (opens the original)
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Whew! For a minute there I thought the polarity of the earthâs magnetic field had swapped again as occurred during the Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal of 780,000 years ago. When Messrs. Mark Mansius and Bill Sargent espoused such an extreme progressive policy as not supporting bullies or bullying, I was momentarily taken aback. Fear not august readers, they have seen the error of their ways and are back whole-heartedly supporting Trump and his claims of noncitizens voting. Let me be clear, I have no
'Bullying' column was pure, laughable hypocrisy (opens the original)
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I'm laughing at the hypocrisy of Mark Mansius and Bill Sargent lecturing anyone on the evils of bullying ("We shouldn't vote for or otherwise support bullies," The Daily News, Aug. 12, 2026). As readers of this page well know, these two have supported and defended all things Trump ad nauseam. It cannot be denied that Trump has taken bullying to levels to which Charles Dickens and Herman Melville could not have conceived and he's not done yet. As we remember from 10th grade geometry, if A=B and B
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