Sept. 29: Smartphones, hooka and Peggy Lee
Brooklyn: We are living in a time of countless electronic devices. I walk every day as a form of exercise, as recommended by my doctor.
Category Archives: Opinion
Contributing Op-Ed Writer: The Trump Fog Machine
Do you remember what monstrous, contemptible or demonstrably false thing Donald Trump said one year ago? Six months ago? O.K., last week? Probably not. The effect of this presidency-by-horrors is to induce amnesia in the public, as if we'd all been given a memory-loss drug.
Op-Ed Contributor: The Wrong Time to Cut Back on Refugees
Amid the world's worst migrant crisis on record, the Trump administration is cutting back on refugee resettlement. As part of his travel ban, President Trump capped the number of refugees to be admitted in 2017 at 50,000, the lowest number in decades.
Op-Ed Columnist: How Donald Trump Opened the Door to Roy Moore
In 2002, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling in a child custody battle between a lesbian mother and an allegedly abusive father. The parents had originally lived in Los Angeles, and when they divorced in 1992, the mother received primary physical custody.
LETTERS: “Citizens should be knowledgeable about these and other…
Saturday morning, Sept. 23, the Volusia County League of Women Voters presented an outstanding program dealing with important issues in American education.
Our Opinion: Win quickly
A major tax reform proposal was expected to be unveiled today by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress. No tax bill is simple, of course.
“a a bill of goods”
In their effort to pin a star on their chests, Republicans are offering concessions to Alaska that other States will not have access to in an effort to win Sen. Lisa Murkowski's vote. They want to add exemptions for Alaska in order to get her to support their last-ditch bill to overhaul the American health-care system.
Can the ‘Big Six’ Keep Tax Reform From Being Deep-Sixed?
This week, the so-called "Big Six" Republican tax leaders unveiled more of their plan to reform the tax code. As usual, it'll be light on details, but we're told to expect a cut in the corporate income tax rate to 20 percent -- as opposed to the 15 percent rate President Donald Trump has promised.
GOP, Can You Hear Us Normals Now?
Are we finally getting through to the GOP Establishment; has the pain we militant normals have dealt it performed the vital task of being the teacher of last resort? It's too bad that's how the Establishment has to learn that we're serious about nuking business as usual. We tried being nice; that was the Tea Party, and the Establishment trashed it.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
The weird odyssey of President Donald Trump's travel bans continues. The original ban, signed as an executive order Jan. 27, barred absolutely all immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Jackie Gingrich Cushman
The combination of constant news, social media and a filterless firehose of opinion has created a deluge of political news, comment, and updates that can be overwhelming -- especially to Americans who are attempting to work, raise children, care for parents and take a little time every day simply to breathe. The places and spaces that used to provide community or respite from the drudgery of the daily grind -- sports teams, entertainers, and simple neighborly conversation -- are instead becoming part of the ongoing and seemingly never-ending political conversation.
What the Democrats’ ‘Medicare for All’ plan could spur in Canada
Opinion: For some Americans, Canadian health care is a source of envy. But the 'Medicare for All' plan shows that our system could use a shake-up, too Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2017.
Time for Republicans to accept reality
WITH ONE more repeal-and-replace effort in flames, Republicans face a choice. They can continue to live in a fantasy world in which it is possible simultaneously to uproot Obamacare, slash federal spending on health care and widen health-care coverage.
We’re running out of time on tax reform
Looks like another week of debacles for the nation's amateur president and the GOP leaders whose bus he hijacked last year. Bid No.
LETTERS: On Mercedes city manager, NFL players and healthcare repeal
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution protects a person's life, liberty or property under substantive and procedural due process. A governmental employee being charged for violating a local or state government rule of law must have a liberty or property interest in his/her continued employment.
Liberals’ unhealthy impeachment dream
Forgive me for starting with a cliche: Beware of what you wish for. I apply it today to the impeachment of President Trump, which is as fervently desired by liberals as it is presently unlikely.
We would impeach Trump at our peril
Forgive me for starting with a cliche: Beware of what you wish for. I apply it today to the impeachment of President Trump, which is as fervently desired by liberals as it is currently unlikely.
Melania Trump’s anti-bullying campaign
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UN harrumphs over Trump
Some world leaders have made their disdain for U.S. President Donald Trump very clear, very publicly. On Tuesday, he heard another round of lectures, after delivering one himself, at the United Nations.
Klobuchar, Graham seek secure elections
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota took to the U.S. Senate floor last week to make her case for her bipartisan amendment with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to safeguard U.S. election infrastructure from foreign interference. According to Klobuchar, the amendment would help states block cyber attacks, secure voter registration logs and voter data, upgrade election auditing procedures, and create secure and useful information sharing about threats.