Letter: Why we should worry about what goes on next door
With a wide ocean separating Canada from the Middle East, the Taliban and ISIS, we squirmed in sympathy. Refugees from war-torn countries swarmed Europe's shores.
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: Truth & lies
Face it - it's going to be a lot more work, if you can be bothered. If you can't, be ready for a confusing world.
Vote for a change: Those who vote have more authority to critique
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick did not vote in the Nov. 8 election. Yes, the player who kneels during the national anthem in the name of justice and change.
Phone scams make me nuts
In days of old, when our home phone numbers weren't sold, and phone scams were not yet invented, the phone wouldn't ring, unless it be family or friends, with this I was so contented. But alas, those days are long past gone.
The messy politics of repealing Obamacare
Already there are tensions between Trump, who's been shaky on the specifics of the 2010 health-care law and says he wants to keep the popular parts, and congressional leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and conservative think tanks who ideologically, almost theologically, oppose anything associated with the Affordable Care Act. They're going to get squeezed in a political vise.
History strikes back
President Barack Obama won't explicitly say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history, but surely he believes it. The president basically thinks anyone who gets in his way is transgressing the larger forces of history with a capital "H."
End support for – sanctuary cities’
That makes no sense at all. But in politically correct America, that is the way the federal government operates.
Editorial: Obama’s last trip
President Barack Obama has embarked on what presumably will be his last foreign trip, to Greece, Germany and Peru. The Peru part is partly because he wants to visit Machu Picchu as a tourist, but it will also give him a chance to review the bidding in America's relations with Latin American countries post-Cuba opening and with Venezuela disintegrating.
Commentary: Unite, move country forward
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, America spoke and demanded to be heard. In a stunning rebuke to the Washington establishment and Beltway insiders, the electorate catapulted the ultimate outsider to victory and declared enough is enough.
Commentary: Bully agency underlines Trump challenge
Overregulation, a worry expressed by Donald Trump in the presidential campaign, diminishes freedom and stymies the economy. President Barack Obama is its champ.
We are all Americans
Mr. Foley: In "A painful but necessary lesson," MDJ, 11/3/2016), you say Mr. Trump is a moron, a huckleberry, an immoral charlatan who uses neo-fascist rhetoric and anyone that votes for him must not have met his or her civic obligation to be well informed.
Forget healing, ita s time to take our country back
Or so people have been telling me since last week when democracy laid the biggest egg in American history. Well, here is my response: I have no interest in seeing this country heal.
Wilshire Baptist Church, Plano East, Donald Trump, college education, …
Re: "Love trumps hate at this church -- After LGBT vote, pastor focused on unity," by Robert Wilonsky, Wednesday Metro column. I wholeheartedly concur with Rabbi David Stern's assessment in Wilonsky's article that George Mason is the "best of the best."
Jared Kushner’s unique role in Donald Trump’s world
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Theory from 1950s can help explain Clinton loss
A theory from the 1950s can help explain. According to University of Michigan researchers in their book "The American Voter," just three factors influence the majority of voters - long-term partisan predispositions, judgments about important issues and images of the candidates.
Affordable child care needed
One of the few things President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agreed upon during the presidential campaign was the need for affordable child care. It's a serious problem, and hopefully Trump will get cooperation in solving it from Congress.
EDITORIAL: Wisniewski a worthy option as governor
It was beginning to look like Phil Murphy would scare away every Democratic hopeful for governor in 2017 before the race even began in earnest. EDITORIAL: Wisniewski a worthy option as governor It was beginning to look like Phil Murphy would scare away every Democratic hopeful for governor in 2017 before the race even began in earnest.
Another year, another time | Turning back the pages
Nov. 1, 1810 - In Thurman there were only 148 people out of 1,332 who were over 45 years of age. James Archibald was supervisor.
Letter: Lee and Love are the adults in the room
I have been no fan of Sen. Mike Lee, but I was encouraged that he conducted his re-election campaign with the dignity that should become a United States senator. He took his opponent seriously and treated her and her ideas with respect.
Dan K. Thomasson: FBIa s screw-up cana t go ignored
It's still to be determined how much impact, if any, the FBI's unprecedented last-minute actions had on Hillary Clinton's performance with presidential election voters, who this past week opted to elect her opponent, Donald Trump. What certainly is, however, is whether the bureau as a whole or its director, James Comey, are allowed to skate in what was one of the most bizarre and outrageous missteps in the history of the nation's top law enforcement agency - a flagrant abuse of its own policies and proprieties that clearly had the potential for seriously damaging Clinton's chances.