Forgiving Bama Gov. Ivey’s blackface
(Aug. 31) It is reasonable to criticize Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey for doing a skit in blackface in college. It’s also reasonable, given that this happened half a century ago, to […]
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Strongly, twice, against the opioid lawsuits
States must not get addicted to quack lawsuits (Aug. 27): An Oklahoma judge was dead wrong Aug. 26 in ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 millionto help fight the opioid crisis, […]
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Save Mobile’s Botanical Gardens! Now!
Please see below, which is pasted from the letter sent out by the Gardens. This must not stand. I hereby pledge $200 as a donation to the Gardens, and urge […]
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Luck, Schiff, Gay Video, Goodfellas
GOP pushes back on Senate Dems acting like Goodfellas (Aug.29) Rep. Schiff wants to treat protesters like terrorists. It’s a terrible idea. (Aug. 26.) NFL is out of […]
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This year, the DJs play the movies all night long
Aug. 21. This one was fun to write. Please read it. If the movies are any indication, nostalgia these days for old time rock & roll seems to be more […]
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Hodgepodge: Five easy pieces
[Links to the full articles embedded in the headlines.] The Navy needs more ships, not more politics (Aug.19): The estimable radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt is, alas, dead wrong to […]
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Fifty years ago, Camille rocked our worlds
For the rest of the country, the eventful summer of 1969 was not a Bryan Adams song, but it was the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, Chappaquiddick and the […]
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Trump still lies about ‘very fine people’ in Charlottesville
Let me make this clear: This isn’t about whether Trump said Nazis were fine people. He didn’t. It’s about whether he invented the existence of such fine people where there […]
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Miscellany: Conservative ideas better than liberal ones
For these four pieces, the full article is linked within the headline of each. New group wisely tries to dissuade the young from socialism (Aug. 16): It is all too […]
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Key perspectives on white supremacy
If anyone doubts that white supremacy/neo-Nazism is a threat,just read this piece from Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, and the first piece of mine, below, from the Examiner. It is absurd […]
