A Thanksgiving memory, and others, from the Gipper
(Nov. 25) On Thanksgiving Day some years ago, an outgoing president of the United States recorded in his longhand diary that “the Johnny in the bathroom had a mechanical problem” […]
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Let’s learn from the quadricentennial of the Mayflower Compact
Exactly 400 years after 41 men in the galley of a ship called the Mayflower agreed to form a “civil body politic,” the public would do well to put the […]
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Biden must make his family divest from foreign business
(Nov. 19) When Joe Biden takes the presidential oath of office next year, he should insist that his son and brother unravel any business arrangements with entities of any foreign […]
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Biden’s Voice of America choice is a silencer of voices
(Nov. 17) President-elect Joe Biden risks forfeiting the United States’s global leadership on behalf of free speech. Biden’s choice of a transition team leader for the U.S. Agency for Global […]
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Early voting and late counting are bad for America
(Nov. 10) Official editorial of the Washington Examiner.: The absurd delays in ballot-counting across the country add weight to arguments against the wide use of early- and mail-in voting. They […]
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A Maine winner and the Bama election loser
Two columns, each showing a different side of this month’s Senate results. (Links to full columns embedded in the headlines.) Alabama’s Doug Jones was a bad fit from the start […]
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Both California and Alabama get racial issues right
(Nov. 6) Citizens of two states defied stereotypes on racial issues in very good ways in statewide referendums this week. Throughout the South, the stereotype of Californians is of people […]
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Vets Day thoughts on how to improve the VA
(Nov. 11) The United States is doing a better job of taking care of its veterans than it was seven or eight years ago, but it’s still not doing well […]
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Trump should start the transition, but Biden should be moderate
Four post-election pieces, two of them official editorials of the Washington Examiner. (Links to full pieces, embedded in the headlines.) Biden must stay moderate to unite the country (Nov. 9): […]
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U.S. government should not support ‘Islamic Relief’ group
(Nov. 12) The nominally anti-Islamist Trump administration has continued to finance and partner with a group called Islamic Relief Worldwide that is under furious fire in Europe for rampant anti-Semitism […]
