Russians hacked our election: Now what?
To me, the biggest ignored story of 2016 is the fact that the Russians helped elect Donald Trump as president. The Democratic National Committee's emails were hacked by Russians.
Category Archives: Opinion
Boosting wages for US workers hard to do
A lot of discussion goes into how to raise employment, but increasing wages turns out to be a much thornier problem. In countries such as the U.S., where unemployment is already relatively low, leaders like President-elect Donald Trump need to wrestle with this difficult challenge.
RH Line calls published Dec. 5, 2016
"Seriously? You're wondering why we have good helmets for students playing football? You haven't been paying attention to all the concussion-related illnesses and deaths for pro-football players and other athletes? Concussions are serious, cause long-term damage and if you're going to have football in high school, we need to make sure our students ... (more)
Right from Wrong: Note to Israelis: The US is not racist
Since Donald Trump won the US presidential election last month, Israelis have been engaged in a heated debate about how the victory of the billionaire businessman who gets into fights on Twitter will affect the Jewish state. The Left, which has been fawning over Barack Obama for eight years, has been attributing all the ills of his country and the world during this period to a combination of piggish capitalism and racism ostensibly so indigenous to America that even the Great Black Hope was unable to stomp them out.
Terra Incognita: Keith Ellison’s speech was an Islamic-supremacist, chauvinist diatribe
The real story with Ellison is that, as with so many religious-nationalist Muslims in the West, his views dovetail much more logically with the extreme Right. In mid-November Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison announced he would run for chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.
Letters: Trump’s deal to save Carrier jobs isn’t what it seems
When you dig down into the story about Donald Trump saving jobs in Indiana , you discover yet another moment when reporters and mass media have fallen for fraud and accepted statements as true without digging into the details. Vice President-elect Pence and President-elect Trump visit the Carrier air conditioning and heating company in Indianapolis on Thursday.
Boosting wages for US workers really hard to do
For most people, two things are paramount for their economic well-being - jobs and wages. A lot of discussion goes into how to raise employment, but increasing wages turns out to be a much thornier problem.
It’s time to ignore flag burners on campus
Do students love a flag aflame? At Hampshire College, in western Massachusetts, a student burned a flag to express opposition to the president-elect. At American University, in our nation's capital, flags were burned as students unleashed obscenity-laced chants against the United States.
Of bunnies and suits, Louisiana’s long campaign for the U.S. Senate winds down
Gerald Faulk casts his ballot during early voting Monday, November 28, 2016, at the Lafayette Parish Government Building in Lafayette, La. Early voting for the Dec. 10 runoff elections began Saturday and will continue through Saturday, Dec. 3. John Kennedy and Foster Campbell are the two candidates vying for a U.S. Senate seat while Scott Angelle and Clay Higgins are in a runoff in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District.
Pregnancy, privacy and Trump’s promise
The future of privacy under the U.S. Constitution - and the critical protection of rights such as abortion and same-sex marriage - rests on the continued good health and mental acuity of three lawyers age 78 and older. If you care about these things, and you should, you really should be sending vitamin packets, kale salads and protein smoothies to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer .
Printed Letters: December 4, 2016
Remember Donald Trump proclaiming during his election campaign that he is going to "drain the swamp?" Remember that? Sure Donald, you are going to accomplish this by offering positions in your cabinet to individuals who are nothing more than Washington or Wall Street insiders. And then the Donald wants to hand over his business interests to his children.
Letters: On sanctuary cities and schools
The federal government should have stopped sanctuary cities when they popped up. Why should certain cities be able to thumb their noses at the law and take in federal money at the same time? Why would they want to house illegal immigrants? The key word is illegal.
Tie corporate tax cuts to a minimum-wage rise
I believe that two important issues should be linked in the public's mind - corporate tax cuts and a raise in the minimum wage. Now that Republicans have won both the White House and Congress, we can be certain that change is coming, and we can expect that many of the usual one-sided policies will finally be enacted, such as corporate tax cuts, tax reform and reduced regulations - all of which are meant to help businesses become more profitable.
How worried should immigrants be?
The day after the presidential election, I stood in front of a class of foreign graduate students who had come to the United States to study U.S. and international law, trying to reassure them that they were not in danger of being deported. "You are all here legally on student visas," I reminded them.
Google’s 21st- Century empire
Google has colonized more countries than the Ancient Romans. In 95 percent of countries, either Google or YouTube is the most popular website.
John Hood: GOP factions will steer course for more change
The first time I lived in the nation's capital, Ronald Reagan was president. The conservatives I knew there were proud of their movement's accomplishments, in such areas as reforming taxes and challenging the Soviet empire, as well as disappointed by inadequate progress on such issues as cutting the federal budget.
Megan McArdle: Trump tax cuts — A bad idea with a bright future
The ambitious plan to erect a luxury hotel less than a mile from the top of Mount Washington has touched off competing petitions with strong opinions on both sides.
Charles Krauthammer: After 25 years, the triumph of the West is over
The ambitious plan to erect a luxury hotel less than a mile from the top of Mount Washington has touched off competing petitions with strong opinions on both sides.
Amnestarian Lindsey Graham: Another Reason Why We Elected Trump
President-elect Trump is quickly assembling his Executive cabinet. Key leaders in Congress are ready to repeal Obamacare and the disastrous Iran deal.
Time to End Discrimination Against Gays?
On gay rights, America has come a great distance in a short time. Remember the days, not so long ago, that gays stayed in the closet, sodomy was a crime, same-sex marriage was banned and people could be fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation? Actually, you don't have to try to remember that last.