Right wingers behaving badly
Two columns. Links embedded in headlines. No excuse for protest at home of Michigan Secretary of State (Dec. 7): A Dec. 5 incident in Michigan shows again that it is […]
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Gen. Flynn’s call for martial law is beneath contempt
(Dec. 3) Just days after receiving a controversial pardon from President Trump, retired Gen. Michael Flynn showed some of the character defects that got him into hot water in the […]
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NASDAQ goes idiotically ‘politically correct’
(Dec. 2) The Securities and Exchange Commission ought to reject a proposal from the NASDAQ Stock Exchange that would require diversity quotas on the boards of companies listed on its […]
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Kurt Russell tells actors to stop spouting off
(Dec. 3) We’ve all become so accustomed by now to Hollywood actors spouting off about politics that it shocks us when a big star spouts off against Hollywood politicking. That’s […]
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R.I.P., Rafer Johnson, Great American
(Dec. 3) Olympic decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson, who died Dec. 3 at age 86, epitomized the phrase “American hero.” When his event’s winner was known universally as “the world’s […]
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Congress has a bad ‘relief’ idea and a good one
Two columns. (Nov. 30) Deferred Payroll taxes must be paid. Lawmakers and some taxpayers will face a year-end mess because of an ill-advised executive action earlier this year by President […]
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Trump should listen to Barr
(Dec. 1) President Trump should heed Attorney General William Barr’s announcement that the Justice Department has not found enough evidence of vote fraud to change the presidential election result. “To […]
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Of William F. Buckley, the Pilgrims, and Gratitude
(Nov. 26) Conservative intellectual giant William F. Buckley once lamented that too many Westerners “accept without any thought the patrimony we all enjoy,” and he wrote a wonderful little book […]
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Election mess in NY shows why mail-in voting is a problem
(Nov. 23) A judge trying to decide the results of a congressional race in New York said something Monday that could apply to all systems of widespread mail-in voting. “We […]
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Trump was right to pardon General Flynn
(Nov. 25) President Trump’s Thanksgiving eve pardon of legally beleaguered retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will surely be controversial, but it was the right thing to do. Flynn, who was […]
