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Tone down the rhetoric

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” — Abraham Lincoln In the ...

Supreme Court protects all presidents

Put aside former president Donald Trump (an impossible task for some) and examine the Supreme Court’s majority ruling that protects any president from litigation for decisions and actions he (or she, but for the sake of this column I will use the male pronoun) has made while in ...

DEI short circuits EV charging station construction

Nothing is more inefficient than the government working at cross purposes. Just look at the Biden administration’s attempts to build charging stations for electric vehicles. Since coming into office, President Joe Biden has insisted on micromanaging the auto industry to push consumers ...

Belly up to the trough — it’s a feeding frenzy

When it comes to promoting their re-elections and rewarding special interests, lawmakers love few things more than raiding the treasury. Year after year, the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste performs a vital service and tracks how lawmakers make a mockery of the political ...

No taxes on tips?

Donald Trump stormed through Las Vegas recently, holding an outdoor rally Sunday at Sunset Park. To nobody’s surprise, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who narrowly lost Nevada in both 2016 and 2020, went looking for votes from hospitality workers. “For those hotel ...