Trumpa s firing of Comey: This is how not to do it

In the world of political Washington, one of the most foreboding things that can happen to anyone is to have their boss say they're 100 percent behind them. President Donald Trump's peremptory firing of James Comey is a complete homemade mess enabling a long list of the usual congressional suspects of both parties, who dislike this president anyway, to strut, preen and opine on this week's hot topic while avoiding normal duties.

Editorial: Undermining ACA

Before the House of Representatives' health care vote on Thursday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to press his case to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That morning, he tweeted "Death spiral!" over a link to news that Aetna would pull out of the Virginia insurance exchange out of fear of potential losses.

OPINION: Congress’s heuristic hypocrisy

"[H]euristic: involving or serving as an aid to learninga or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methodsa ; also: of or relating toa problem-solving techniquesa such as the evaluation of feedback... OPINION: Congress's heuristic hypocrisy Merriam Webster -- "[H]euristic: involving or serving as an aid to learninga or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methodsa ; also: of or relating toa problem-solving techniquesa such as the evaluation of feedback... Check out this story on ldnews.com: http://ldne.ws/2pt0X4E Merriam Webster -- "[H]euristic: involving or serving as an aid to learninga or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methodsa ; also: of or relating toa problem-solving techniquesa such as the evaluation of feedback..." [Emphasis added] Democratic officeholders engage, hypothetically, at least, in ... (more)

Peter Lucas: Famous Watergate watchdogs still lapping it up

If famous Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein had reported on Democrat Barack Obama the way they did on Republican Richard Nixon, Obama could have ended up the same way. Instead Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate coverup story in 1972 that forced Nixon's resignation two years later, looked the other way during the eight years of scandals that enveloped the Obama administration.

Don’t meddle with Medicare’s prescription drug benefit

By Joel White Seema Verma, the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recently praised Medicare's prescription drug benefit for giving seniors access to affordable medicines, saying she was "thankful" for the program. There's a lot to be thankful for.

Letters: Protect Cumberland from development

This letter is in reply to Sam Candler's response to your editorial of April 19. His arguments for seeking to develop Cumberland Island are based upon the fact that his family has lived on the north end at Highpoint for many years. Now that his Highpoint property is reverting to the Park Service, he seeks to build private houses on the south of the island, on land that he purchased under the shield of Lumar, LLC in 1998.