The number of President Biden’s gaffes and flip-flops on issues would fill a book, but he combined several categories of verbal meanderings at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast. The gathering […]
Tag: politics
Appeals to ‘common sense’ don’t convince anyone
by F.D. Flam If you hear a politician or salesperson or, for that matter, opinion columnist invoke common sense, beware. When people say a particular view on immigration, foreign policy, […]
Feb. 4 letters to the editor
Watchful eyes on worldwide elections The world is going to witness elections on a mass scale. Half the world’s population — about 4 billion people from more than 60 countries, […]
Society needs to take a breather
by Kevin Frazier Patience is a virtue. It’s a simple refrain I learned well in Mrs. Campbell’s class — rather than read the instructions on a pop quiz, I rushed […]
Iowa and New Hampshire add to the case for electoral reform
by Reinhold Ernst The problem with statistics is that they can be manipulated to support or refute any argument, and the Iowa caucus results are no exception. But despite some […]
Biden’s got a good-news deficit
by Jackie Calmes If President Joe Biden’s re-election hinged on the state of the economy, he’d be a good bet, or at least a better one. Instead, it’s voters’ perception […]
Our immigration problems require humane solutions
Gov. Jim Justice and 24 other governors of (mostly red) states have signed a letter of support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s so-called “self-defense” tactics to guard against migrants crossing […]
The 2024 election just might turn on … climate change?
by Mark Gongloff If you were forced to guess the one political issue that will decide the 2024 US election based on sheer volume of news coverage, you might pick […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 2
Good: HB 4428 — a candidate for election for any state, county, or local office is required to have his or her principal residence within the election district for the […]
House Republicans don’t actually want to fix the border
by Patricia Lopez House Republicans have a chance to prove they want to solve their declared border crisis, and not just as a means to inflame their base in an […]
