Legislators, please join Alaskans on the rope
At the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport last winter, as passengers streamed off the flight from Fairbanks, one man turned around and walked toward me.
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Editor: It is almost unspeakable and it is not politics - it is unconscionable mischief. I guess we should not be surprised that the Republican majority in Congress would use its power to defeat Democratic bills and ideas.
Shannon Bardwell: May God bless America
The songwriter Irving Berlin, who would live to be 101 years old, first wrote the song "God Bless America" in 1918 while serving in the army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York. It was intended for a military review called "Yip Yip Yaphank."
Patrick Buchanan: Why Trump is routing the free traders
In Tuesday's indictment of free trade as virtual economic treason, The Donald has really set the cat down among the pigeons. For, in denouncing NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all backed by Bush I and II, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Trump is all but calling his own party leaders dunderheads and losers.
Making America Great Again Requires God’s Help
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, dressed in a plain brown broadcloth suit, stood on the second balcony of Federal Hall in New York City before approximately 10,000 spectators and swore the oath of office as first president of the new United States of America. Upon completion of the oath, a thunderous ovation greeted the new president and church bells began ringing in his honor.
George F. Will: A corrupting crusade corrupts
THE PROGRESSIVE DRIVE to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics.
Yes, Donald Trump’s flip-flops are taking a toll on his campaign
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after speaking at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. Photo Credit: AP / Mark Humphrey Many in the media seem to be having some difficulties comprehending just how badly Donald Trump is doing, and how unusual it is for the Republican Party to be so resistant to their own presidential nominee.
Perspective: Better way on economics comments
In just one day in the month of June, there were 321 pages of federal regulations that were released by the Obama Administration. The sheer volume of regulations over the last eight years has crushed small businesses across the nation as they are faced with hard choices: merge with a larger competitor and lose independence, pass on the additional costs onto consumers who are already dealing with economic uncertainty of their own or close up shop altogether.
Highway speeders should be a top priority
I recently returned from a car trip to Southern California. As I crossed over the state line on Interstate 15, I was met with an large electronic sign stretched across the road reading, "Zero Tolerance Zone."
Opinion: Hillary’s Strange Security Adviser
Hillary Clinton's campaign has been forced to acknowledge over the past week that the former secretary of state did not, as she had claimed, turn over all her work-related email to the State Department. The new story is that her deletion of these emails was an oversight.
The corrupting crusade against “corruption”
The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics. But discord is not altogether pandemic in Washington, and last week a unanimous Supreme Court, in this term's most important decision, limited the discretion prosecutors have to criminalize politics.
Right to bear arms clarified further
"The whole point of the U.S. Second Amendment is to give power to the people in case a tyrannical government rises up a " This sounds like something from the National Rifle Association. Consider the timing of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, which was passed by the U.S. Congress Sept.
Alan Cobb gets new role on Trump team
Kansan Alan Cobb, an early hire as a Donald Trump adviser, is still on the team and was named Tuesday as Trump's director of coalitions. A lot of people thought Donald Trump's presidential campaign would be a short ride.
Letters on abortion, bike trails, school funding, Masterson
After the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down certain abortion restrictions, a local TV station reporter interviewed a young woman outside the gates at the South Wind Women's Center. This woman said that women going into the clinic didn't know what they were doing.
More sunshine in Kansas government
Whatever the weather in Kansas on Friday and beyond, governments around the state will operate in more sunshine. That's because of the new state law that considers public officials' e-mails about public business to be public records, even if they're sent using private e-mail accounts or personal devices.
Progress of Pride
Last Sunday was Pride in New York City and, of course for me, it is always a special day regardless if I'm there or not. It always brings me back to that first Pride, when I was an 18-year-old marshal.
US cannot afford Clinton
I responding to the Sunday letter "Trump could put economy on ruinous path" from John Georgiton. My question, except for a massive depression, could it get any worse? Our economy, at present, is hardly robust.
Republicans must unify
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‘Excellence’ is subjective
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Thursday’s Letters: A call for more civics education
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