Congress, Alabama lose a good one as Martha Roby retires
MOBILE, ALABAMA, JULY 26 – At a time when thoughtful, non-robotic representation already is too rare on Capitol Hill, it is particularly distressing to learn today that Rep. Martha Roby […]
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Trump’s flaws, foreign and domestic
(For both of these Trump-skeptic pieces, you can read the full article by clicking on the links embedded in the headlines.) Moral hygiene is needed to fix Trump’s failed foreign […]
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Republicans sink to new lows
(For those of us who grew up in the Republican Party, today’s party is horrendously disappointing. To read the full versions of both of the following pieces on the subject, […]
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Impeachment? For Tweets? Get serious
If House Democrats want to undermine the seriousness of our constitutional system while also sabotaging their own political prospects, they can do nothing more effective than to vote to open […]
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The quiddity of Chappaquiddick was pure tragedy
It would be easy, and not unwarranted, to mark Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident by reviewing in excruciating detail all the ways that night that then-Sen. Ted Kennedy […]
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Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter’s malignant ‘malaise’ speech
Forty years ago today, Jimmy Carter gave one of the worst speeches in American presidential history. Reading it again, I am surprised to see that the notorious “malaise” speech is even worse […]
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AG Bill Barr speaks against anti-Semitism
As the media had conniption fits all day Monday about President Trump’s apparently bigoted Tweets about liberal Democratic representatives, the Department of Justice was focusing necessary attention on the growth […]
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Three to see, esp. on racism
(Three unrelated pieces. To read the full articles, follow the links embedded in the headlines.) Beyond ‘racism,’ let’s get language right: Sweet Briar College dean Fontaine Maury Belford taught her […]
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I’ll never buy Nike again
(July 8). I will never buy another Nike product again. I know I’m far from the only one to make this pledge. Nike’s withdrawal of its shoes featuring a representation of the […]
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NASA promised the moon, and delivered — for all of us
(July 11). (A slightly different version of this is running in the Washington Examiner print magazine.) Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, one senses […]
