Just doing my job
I'm going to step over the line today. The line I haven't wanted to cross just yet, but as we are three weeks away from the General Election on Nov. 8, I have to do it.
Category Archives: Opinion
Betrayed
"Of course I do not condone Mr. Trump's comments from 11 years ago. I know that this is what the media will choose to focus on instead of the issues or the avalanche of discrediting information about Hillary Clinton's corruption, or her negligence while in office that cost the lives of Americans in Libya and allowed confidential emails to be hacked.
Pastor Robert Jeffress, OSS Gold Medal bill, Congress, Republicans, shoot-to-kill, Frisco ISD
Re: "Jeffress' words evoke dark history -- We must speak the truth in the language of Christianity and of love, Joshua J. Whitfield says," Oct. 1 Viewpoints. Lifetime Southern Baptists, we have become increasingly disturbed and embarrassed by Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress' continued support of Donald Trump.
‘Neither of them are saints,’ U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta says of Trump, Clinton scandals
After the fifth or sixth question about the scandals rocking Donald Trump's presidential campaign this week, U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta's practiced smile began to crack. "Why aren't we talking about the issues?" he finally fumed.
Americans mired in mud-slinging instead of issues
I absolutely refuse to quote Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's taped "hot mic" comments released this past weekend. While the language is familiar to adults, sad as it is to say, it isn't something that we should be accustomed to hearing from presidential candidates.
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Pennsylvania should use its victory in a fight against major tobacco companies to help snuff out smoking. The Supreme Court of the United States last week drove the final coffin nail into the tobacco industry's attempt to shortchange Pennsylvania and several other states.
Sputnik story puts Trump on bad trajectory
Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump delivers remarks during a rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Twp. on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016.Christopher Dolan / Staff Photographer The furor over the video of Donald Trump bragging about his sexual advances on women overshadowed some interesting comments he made during his Monday rally in Wilkes-Barre Twp.
Letter: Vote to reduce gun violence
Following the heinous murder of 20 children and six educators at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School , I wrote Gov. Sam Brownback, Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, and Rep. Tim Huelskamp asking them to work with others to help reduce gun violence in America. Given the horror of this particular crime and the fact that countless thousands of deaths by gunfire had occurred previously, I thought common sense would prevail and they would act in a positive manner.
Editorial: Overcoming more barriers to voter suppression
Thanks to Secretary of State Kris Kobach, it has become unnecessarily complicated for thousands of Kansans to participate in this year's elections. Although district and federal court judges have ordered Kobach to accept the registrations of 20,000 voters who failed to provide proof-of-citizenship documents when they filed their applications, this morass of legal proceedings has made it difficult for Kansans to know where they stand.
Cal Thomas: The Bickersons revisited
Not since George and Martha in the play "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" or, for older readers, Don Ameche and Frances Langford in the radio comedy "The Bickersons," have we seen the kind of verbal pugilism practiced in Sunday night's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Sunday night, Clinton recycled the familiar Democrat playbook that the wealthy aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes, when the real issue is that government already receives record amounts in tax money, but misspends much of it and never seems to have enough.
Trump: Time for a blunt president to unite our country | Guest Op
Over the past eight years, we have become a divided country. We are on the verge of race wars.
EDITORIAL: Donald Trump for president
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Henderson Pavilion on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Henderson, Nev. Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @Erik_Verduzco Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Delaware County Fair, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, in Delaware, Ohio.
Ita s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election
It would be nice if this hellscape of an election managed to raise thoughtful discussions on one or two issues of national concern, but instead it appears that it has come down to a single-question personality test. Not, "Which candidate would you rather have a beer with?" but, "Which candidate, or candidate's husband, would you be most afraid to ride alone in an elevator with?" The procession of women this week who accused Donald Trump of forcibly touching and kissing them - one woman said he accosted her on a plane 30 years ago; another said he pinned her against a wall in 2005 while his pregnant wife was upstairs - was unnerving.
YDR anti-Trump editorial triggers anger – and aa
There was criticism to spare -- for the editorial, the major candidates and even their supporters -- in the wake of Tuesday's editorial. YDR anti-Trump editorial triggers anger - and a huge online debate There was criticism to spare -- for the editorial, the major candidates and even their supporters -- in the wake of Tuesday's editorial.
We Knew Gender Would Be An Issue In This Election. But Did It Have To Play Out Like This?
Ever since it became clear that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for president, it was inevitable that gender would be the backdrop to this election campaign, the thrumming undercurrent, shaped by the thrill many felt in seeing a woman finally break through - and the unease with which others greeted the possibility of a woman in the Oval Office. There was Clinton on October 9, sharing the stage in the second presidential debate with a man who just days before was heard joking on tape that he forced himself on women, kissed them without permission and described their bodies in vulgar terms, and who was allowed to justify all this as mere "locker room talk."
Trump should thank Bill Clinton
If he hasn't already done so, Donald Trump should place a call to Bill Clinton and say, "Thank you." Trump should also send thank you notes to the mainstream national media and the Democratic Party, because they are the reasons that Donald Trump still has a chance to be elected president of the United States.
Harold Holzer: The 45th President and the 16th
A third candidate made it to the 2016 presidential debate stage after all. Sunday night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both managed to summon Abraham Lincoln to their dustup at Washington University.
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Timing of Paul Ryan’s rebuff of Donald Trump worth pondering
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Donald Trump’s vile candidacy is chemotherapy for the GOP
What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign's theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek "Lock her up!" This presaged his Banana Republican vow to imprison his opponent.