RIP Dikembe Mutombo, the giant humanitarian
(October 1) Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who died of brain cancer on Sept. 30 at 58, was quite simply one of the finest human beings ever to don an […]
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Strike was averted, but Biden was derelict
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Oct. 5) By refusing to invoke the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to suspend the dockworkers’ strike in half the nation’s ports, President Joe Biden terribly abandoned his […]
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On Israel’s righteous, brilliant lethality
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Sept. 29) Israel’s counterterrorism actions against Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in the past fortnight have been among the most brilliant, the most precise, and the most well justified in history. […]
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Trump’s tariffs and hypocrisy both are horrendous
(Sept. 25) Former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals are bad enough, indeed awful, but his hypocrisy is just as bad. Trump, who miserably failed to cut the trade deficit or boost manufacturing in his first […]
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Harris, Walz hide b/c their values are unpopular
(Sept. 24) The problem with the Harris-Walz ticket’s cowardly ducking of media questions, all while Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly said her “values have not changed,” is that her values run counter […]
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Louisiana needs flat tax and fiscal reform
(Sept. 29, the Advocate/Times-Picayune) If Louisianans are tired of finishing near the bottom of every rating of civic health, they should buy into major reforms. In proposals within the last […]
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Bad spending bill is the fault of nihilistic right wingers
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, July 23): Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and 16 Republican House members are deliberately creating another government funding crisis. In a more rational world, voters would allow none of them to […]
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Outrageous execution of a probably innocent man
(Sept. 24) Note: This column was to no avail. The state executed Marcellus Williams anyway after the Supreme Court refused to intervene. Since then, I did find out that the knife […]
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Awful presidential campaign ignores the biggest issues
(Sept. 16) In this year’s train wreck of a presidential campaign, neither of the two major-party tickets is advocating serious policies that come close to addressing crucial challenges facing our […]
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Take your kid to see the Reagan movie
(Sept. 10) If you have any relatives under, say, 45 years old, I hereby pronounce it your civic duty, by any nonviolent means, to take them to see the movie […]
