Try a little honesty about Israel
Politics
October 15, 2024
Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lameduck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No ...
Politics
October 15, 2024
EVERY YEAR, THE NATIONAL Network to End Domestic Violence conducts a survey of those seeking help. It is not a total for the year. It is a snapshot of one day. How many people reached out? How many pe...
Politics
October 14, 2024
IS A PRIVATE FACEBOOK PAGE a public record? It’s a complicated question — so complicated that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is being asked to decide. The line between public and private isn’t as blac...
Extremist misinformation threatens lives
Politics
October 14, 2024
“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.” — Jonathan Swift, 1710 I am old enough to remember predictions of the glorious promise of the internet, which optimists declared would usher in...
Would the Republican party survive if Trump loses?
Politics
October 12, 2024
If Donald Trump loses the election, to hear him and his campaign tell it, the fate of the Republican Party should be the least of our concerns: his defeat would spell the end of the nation itself and ...
‘We’re all Americans, too’
Politics
October 11, 2024
If Kamala Harris loses the election next month, one big reason will be the steady drift of Latino voters away from the Democrats. In a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, Harris led Donald Trump...
Politics
October 10, 2024
To the Editor: It’s so sad to read about the closing of area personal care homes. I feel sorry for the people in them and their families. Where will they go? How far away will they have to go if there...
Politics
October 10, 2024
THE TRAGIC SCENES from Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction are nothing short of heartbreaking. In the week and a half since it made landfall, subjecting coastlines across the Southeast to storm sur...
Politics
October 9, 2024
NEW PROGRAMS in government often are nothing new at all. They are frequently just repackaged versions of previous ideas. When the opioid settlement with states and counties across the country was anno...
Politics
Really bad ideas
October 9, 2024
To the Editor: Donald Trump called out who was coming across our border along with people legitimately seeking asylum. He said murderers, rapists, thieves, and more, were just walking in. The left has...
When Kamala Harris promises come to nothing
Politics
October 9, 2024
The fundamental problem with Kamala Harris’s campaign promises is that she has served as vice president of the United States for nearly four years. All those things she is out on the campaign trail pl...
What polling shows about Black voters’ views of Harris and Trump
Politics
October 9, 2024
By MATT BROWN AND LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris, but they’re less sure that she would c...
Big lie persists, now surrounded by smaller lies
Politics
October 7, 2024
“So What?” According to special counsel Jack Smith, that was Donald Trump expressing his trademark compassion, care and concern for his vice president, Mike Pence, who was being threatened by the Jan....
Politics
October 7, 2024
By SCOTT BAUER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press JUNEAU, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump on Sunday visited Wisconsin for the fourth time in eight days as his campaign showers attention on a pivotal st...
Politics
October 7, 2024
ON NOV. 5, Pennsylvanians will turn out by the millions to cast ballots for offices including state legislators, a couple of Pennsylvania row offices, federal representatives and a U.S. senator. Oh ye...
Pay attention to history
Politics
October 4, 2024
Kamala Harris has shrewdly resisted pressures from the left to adopt policies that might alienate moderate swing voters. But on one issue, the Democratic nominee has bowed to liberal orthodoxy: advoca...
Politics
October 4, 2024
AMERICANS GENERALLY understand the idea of risk and the importance of mitigation. We have fire departments because we like things like Christmas lights, s’mores and deep-fried turkeys, and all of thos...
The Democrats’ idea of a regular guy
Politics
October 3, 2024
To balance out her being a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hire, Kamala Harris needed a regular white guy as her running mate. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party doesn’t have any of those, so H...