Liebrecht: More people need to vote
Tom Wilkes of Henrico County casts his ballot in last month's gubernatorial primary.
Category Archives: Opinion
Budowsky: What Trump must confess
To save his presidency from ending in epic disaster, save the nation from a constitutional crisis, and defend America from warfare against democracy waged by Russia, President Trump needs to tell the nation the whole truth about everything he knows regarding the Putingate scandal. Paul Ryan Hispanic caucus member challenges Kelly on 'Dreamers' Budowsky: What Trump must confess House passes bill to curb human trafficking MORE Lawmakers propose .1B NIH funding boost Trump: I'll be 'very angry' if Senate doesn't pass ObamaCare repeal bill MORE should meet alone with the president, close the door, and speak the truth about what Trump must do to purge his presidency of the poison that is caused by this sordid affair.
Get to the remembering: The Trump Russian ‘transparency’ bull
Don Trump Jr., with back pats from his dad , ludicrously pretends that a few tweets and a sit-down with Fox News' Sean Hannity settle the matter of his meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer whose offer of dirt on Hillary Clinton he gleefully accepted. For crying out loud: Their tale, told Tuesday afternoon in the name of "transparency," contradicted the account given just Sunday night, that the meeting only concerned "adoptions."
Congress should approve sanctions on Russia
Just heard a startling fact that voters need to address with their congressional representatives: A bill to impose Russian sanctions is stalled in U.S. House of Rep. Evidently, the Senate passed sanctions, economic and otherwise, against Russia by a 98 to 2 margin but the House has done nothing. The Trump administration has lobbied with the House to stall any action by insisting that Congress doesn't have the right to levy sanctions.
MICEK: Republicans and Democrats pushing back against Trump
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf hit the nail on the head last week when he refused to play along with the Trump administration's invasive and unwarranted request for unfettered access to his state's voter rolls. "The right to vote is absolute and I have no confidence that you seek to bolster it," Wolf, a Democrat, wrote to Kris Kobach, vice chairman of President Donald Trump's hilariously misnamed Election Integrity Commission.
Next step for Louisiana prison reform is to review life sentences: Opinion
Louisiana lawmakers took a promising first step this summer to address the state's embarrassing distinction as the world leader in incarceration. Though more ambitious proposals to significantly reduce the prison population were abandoned, the state is poised to save millions of dollars in corrections spending and enhance opportunities for people returning home from prison .
Chris Christie’s the least-worst governor in recent history | Mulshine
The governor took quite a beating over the holiday weekend because of those photos of him lounging on the beach at a state park closed to everyone else because of a budget showdown. I myself have written many articles critical of Christie.
Using – free speech’ as a cover for discrimination
Jack Phillips is the operator of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Phillips, who has religious objections to same-sex marriage and had lost a discrimination case for refusing to create a cake to celebrate such a union.
How Vladimir Putin’s election meddling can make the U.S. stronger
According to the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. As the so-called Trump-Russia story lurches on, one can see it in a few different ways: a witch hunt, the lead-up to Donald Trump's impeachment, a distraction from more important issues, a major national security threat to the U.S. It would be useful, however, to look beyond these partisan perceptions to the story's potential to make America great again.
Printed Letters: July 5, 2017
Health care, or the lack thereof, is a perennial topic in the news and in letters to the editor. Perhaps we should review how the United States, inarguably home to the best health care in the world, is now faced with such an imbalance between value and cost.
Something is wrong with the GOP
Remember last year's campaign? Remember how dogged and relentless we were in covering Hillary Clinton's sloppy handling of her emails? Remember the comparatively free ride we gave Donald Trump despite his repeated demonstrations that he was unserious, unsound and unfit? Remember all the hand wringing afterward about how we had embraced a false equivalence? I keep reading and seeing all these stories on America's political polarization, the great divide between left and right. Ted Koppel did a couple such reports for "CBS News Sunday Morning," Robert Samuelson wrote a column about it for The Washington Post, Andrew Soergel pondered the question in U.S. News & World Report.
Trump must help fight disinformation
President Donald Trump's twitter tirade against MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski last week revealed more than his continued willingness to demean his office - and women. He lambasted Brzezinski, co-host of Morning Joe, as "low I.Q., Crazy Mika" claiming she'd been "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when she briefly attended a social gathering at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve.
Letter: Supreme Court pirates marriage
Regarding the recent Amarillo Globe-News editorial , I offer this quote from Thomas Paine - "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness." AGN refers to Justice John Roberts' dissenting opinion relating to Obergefell v.
Kathleen Parker: Punch-drunk Trump
As the nation was preparing to celebrate its storied independence from the British crown, the president secured his place as history's greatest jester. Trump did so by tweeting a doctored video clip of himself from several years ago in which he takes down wrestling magnate Vince McMahon and gives him a good pummeling.
NZ Herald editorial: Let’s not overstate Trump’s attack
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Recent Missouri editorials
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill could write a chapter about her own unforced errors. A March tweet from the Missouri Democrat continues to haunt her.
What’s the Matter With Republicans?
Over the past two months the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress have proposed a budget and two health care plans that would take benefits away from core Republican constituencies, especially working-class voters. And yet over this time Donald Trump's approval rating has remained unchanged, at 40 percent.
The Declaration of Independence
Maryland, Delaware and Louisiana on Monday joined a growing number of U.S. states that have refused to hand over voter data to a commission established by President Donald Trump to... ARLINGTON, Texas - Mike Napoli connected on the first pitch of the ninth inning for the game-tying home run, but the Boston Red Sox scored two on a bloop single in ... (more)
From the desk of… In todaya s immigration debate, even the truth is controversial
How absurd has the immigration debate become? This absurd: It is now considered controversial when people simply tell the truth. As when the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement explains the cold reality that anyone in the United States without the proper legal documents “should be concerned” about being apprehended and deported.
Past opinions provide perspective – Tue, 04 Jul 2017 PST
In the wake of President Lyndon Johnson signing the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, an S-R editorial focused on events that led to its passage. "Within the last decade the United States Supreme Court has made several far-reaching decisions, the true constitutionality of which has been questioned by a great many Americans.