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Opinion.

There’s an awful lot we can be thankful for

Columns

In 2006, a few days before Christmas, doctors announced my wife had six months to live. She had, they said, a rare form of cancer that had spread to her lungs. There was really nothing that could be done. We had a one-year-old and I had been told my job was coming to an end the same day of the ...

The flying public continues to grow more surly

Columns

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is my new hero. Duffy is promoting a “civility” campaign that urges passengers to be polite and dress up rather than wear sweatpants and slippers when they fly. If everyone dresses better, everyone will behave better, Duffy offered. It’s an idea that ...

So, Barack and Bubba decided they needed to hand out for awhile …

Columns

“So, Bill, check this out. You know Hillary was in deep voodoo — over the unsecured server in her basement, right? I mean, we’re talking slam dunk violation of the Espionage Act — maybe even jail time — because, you know, she sent and received classified documents. Who DOES that?! I ...

A failing grade for DOE

Editorials

U.S. Department of Education officials missed the mark badly when they decided, purportedly in a revision that is part of the Big Beautiful Bill, to eliminate nursing, physical therapy, public health and other fields from those graduate study fields in which students are able to borrow loans up ...

Cheney’s funeral serves as a reminder

Columns

In an America presently diseased by crudeness and cruelty, the scene at Washington’s National Cathedral for the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney was a welcome display of grace by leaders who embrace an ethos currently out of vogue. It’s an ethos of bipartisanship, of respect for ...

This plan would mean we lose and they win

Columns

In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan was asked by a reporter during the summit in Moscow what his goal was in the Cold War, he said: “We win, they lose.” When it comes to today’s Russia and its unprovoked war with Ukraine, President Trump’s goal at least in practice and outcome ...