Dante RamosSave gas; restrain the American driver’s id
Weekend do-it-yourselfers salivate over heavy-duty tools. "Professional-quality" pots, pans, mixers, immersion circulators , and Viking ranges are de rigueur in today's home kitchens.
Category Archives: Opinion
Americans shouldn’t be surprised by all this
Foreign spies and criminals in Washington, D.C., are using devices that can intercept cellphone calls and text messages from unaware users, it was revealed this week. The Department of Homeland Security made the admission in answer to a request by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Saturday, April 7, 2018: Health care a moral issue, abandon…
How much is a life worth? Do we believe every life is equally precious? Who decides if our life or the life a loved one has value? These are deeply moral and spiritual questions, and they lie at the heart of the debate around access to health care . Virtually all faith traditions teach that every life is sacred.
How to win an argument about guns
A crowd in Janesville, Wis., hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan, shows support for students calling attention to gun violence on March 28. There are reasonable gun control measures that are constitutional. A crowd in Janesville, Wis., hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan, shows support for students calling attention to gun violence on March 28. There are reasonable gun control measures that are constitutional.
Bank lobbyist Tim Pawlenty launches bid for Minnesota governor
For elected officials, revolving doors spin very easily one way - from the public trust to the private sector. Spinning the other way, there's a little more friction.
Your Turn: It’s not safe for LGBT people of color, and Phoenix Pride doesn’t care
Trans Queer Pueblo interrupted last year's Pride parade because Phoenix Pride has turned its back on the LGBT community. Your Turn: It's not safe for LGBT people of color, and Phoenix Pride doesn't care Trans Queer Pueblo interrupted last year's Pride parade because Phoenix Pride has turned its back on the LGBT community.
Killing the messenger
Yet again the knee jerk reaction in Thailand to any criticism is to kill the messenger rather than fix the problem. Your report says the governor of Chiang Mai wants criminal charges laid against a local magazine for posting a "blasphemous" painting on Facebook showing ancient kings, Mengrai, Ramkhamhaeng and Ngam Muang, wearing pollution masks as part of a campaign to protest against hazardous smog.
Yet another clown wants to go to Congress
So believes Steve Lough, a Democratic candidate for South Carolina's 5th Congressional District. As a professional clown, he should know.
Trumpism can’t be treated as a normal political moment
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while participating in a tour of U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. U.S., March 13, 2018.
Why good Christians must disavow Trump
Back in 2017, when asked if he wanted the President to embody the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress replied unequivocally, "Absolutely not." Fast forward several months, and on this Easter weekend, the question must be asked again - only this time, to everyone who claims to revere the teachings of Christianity and believe in the power of personal moral responsibility, as embodied by the world's most powerful individual.
Romney should trash his extreme views on immigration and lead out to find a solution
Mitt Romney is back in campaign mode and reminding Utahns why he lost the last time he ran for something. On Monday Romney spoke to the Utah County Republican Women and reminded Utahns that his views on immigration are starkly more conservative than even the conservatives in Utah County.
Stephanie Grace: Retiring Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran was there was Louisiana needed him
In this Jan. 21, 2018, photo, lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol Building as night falls in Washington. President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday night but, as always, lawmakers are angling to steal part of the spotlight.
Opinion: How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Racial Backlash
A few days after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Republican governor of Maryland, Spiro T. Agnew, strode into a conference room in downtown Baltimore.
Opinion: Democrats Are Christians, Too
Now that Stormy Daniels has confirmed on national television that Donald Trump initiated sex with her just months after his third wife gave birth to their child, at least half the country is asking: Surely this is a porn star too far for white evangelical Christians, right? As we celebrate Easter Sunday, nearly 18 months after Mr. Trump won the presidency with about 80 percent of the white evangelical vote, surveys show him retaining nearly all of that support. In contrast, white evangelicals re-elected George W. Bush in 2004 with 78 percent of their votes, but by May 2006 their approval had slid to 55 percent .
GOPa s omnibus bill should have gone off a cliff
On Dec. 22, President Donald Trump signed the $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most significant levy reduction since 1986. Even Trump's critics conceded that Republicans ended 2017 on an unexpectedly high note, with their free-market banners flapping smartly in the tail winds.
Stevens makes good point in essay
Let me say it up front: I don't think we should repeal the Second Amendment. But I applaud retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for arguing that we should.
The top things you may have missed about policing this week
The top things you may have missed about policing this week News and opinion from outlets across the country compiled by Policing the USA Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2Gn8CPh Newer technology is being used to smuggle contraband into prisons across the nation, and prison systems are lagging in their ability to stop it from happening. Drones have delivered everything from cellphones to drugs, pornography and tobacco onto prison grounds.
Hits and misses
Miss: We're not sure what former Sen. Rick Santorum was thinking earlier this week when he dismissed the March for Our Lives rallies as a political movement and suggested students learn CPR to combat mass shootings rather than stage protests.
New Jersey Has a Major Crisis On Its Hands
New Jersey has a major crisis on its hands. Its political leaders are refusing to address the elephant in the room that is crippling blue-collar families by hindering job creation, wage growth, and quality of life.
Climate Chaos Claims Continue Causing Consternation
Anyone who thought "manmade climate cataclysm" rhetoric couldn't possibly exceed Obama era levels should read the complaint filed in the "public nuisance" lawsuit that's being argued before Federal District Court Judge William Alsup in a California courtroom: Oakland v BP and other oil companies. The allegations read at times like they were written by a Monty Python comedy team and a couple of first year law students.