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As wildfires rage in West, DC lawmakers fight over forest policy
WASHINGTON -- With wildfire season raging in western states, Congress is embroiled in a battle over how best to fight the ... Read More
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Trump's promise of jobs from Saudi deals may fall flat
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump can't stop boasting about nearly $400 billion in military and business deals his administration made during his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia last month.
"Hundreds of billions of ...Read more
Martin Schram: GOP leaders are stumped by a two-question quick quiz
Today we have good interim news for President Donald Trump's blue-collar working class voter base. We are talking here about all the true-believers who finally became fed up after years of being taken for granted by ...Read more
Thirteen Republican Men
They went into a room to write a health care bill. Didn't need any women. For diversity they had Ted Cruz, still famous at Harvard for only allowing Ivy League grads into his law school study group. A man of the people. ...Read more
Rex Huppke: No accountability for any of Trump's lies
The president of the United States has now declared that CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC along with the "failing" New York Times and the Washington Post are not news organizations staffed by professional journalists but mere ...Read more
Reg Henry: 'See that sea otter? It sustains us,' I say
Today let us praise jobs. Indisputably, jobs are helpful in paying mortgages and buying groceries. They build moral character too, with the possible exception of employment in politics. That is saying the obvious. Now let ...Read more
Postponing the next recession?
WASHINGTON -- This is not your father's inflation -- and that's good news. Business cycles often end when higher inflation causes a country's central bank (the Federal Reserve in the United States) to raise interest rates,...Read more
Why do they even play the game?
WASHINGTON -- In mathematics, when you're convinced of some eternal truth but can't quite prove it, you offer it as a hypothesis (with a portentous capital H) and invite the world, future generations if need be, to prove ...Read more
Jalil Dawood: Why all the fuss about a screening process that protects us?
As a former refugee from Iraq and a proud American citizen, I've closely followed the public debate and legal battle right through Monday's Supreme Court decision about President Trump's travel ban. But I haven't talked to...Read more
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Theory T
Ph.D. Phillip R. WalkerTheory T enables you to see possibilities for creating a different world by shifting trust-consciousness. The book is a personal statement of the author’s beliefs, feelings, and attitudes, each intersecting with the importance of trust in achieving the Best Version of Humanity.
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Movie review: Key elements missing from 'Despicable Me 3'
"Despicable Me 3" comes across less like the latest animated tale in the popular franchise about the once evil Gru (Steve Carell) and more like a made-for-television movie rushed into production to introduce a new TV ...Read more
Power, prestige and pull in Bay State's medical community
If you're interested in further details on the very complex Pelletier case, we suggest the Boston Globe's story.
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Another Trumpcare plan: Just don't get sick
Democrats these days must feel like Michael Dukakis, as famously played by Jon Lovitz in a debate with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush on "Saturday Night Live" when he said, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."
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In today's immigration debate, even the truth is controversial
SAN DIEGO -- How absurd has the immigration debate become? This absurd: It is now considered controversial when people simply tell the truth.
As when the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement explains the...Read more
What's ailing health care
WASHINGTON -- The Senate health care bill, which was scuttled Tuesday until after July 4, was doomed by two narratives: Republicans are mean, and poor people would be dropping like flies.
Assisting the opposition was none...Read more
The global politics of selfishness
ERBIL, Iraq -- Here in the capital of Iraqi Kuridstan, the mood is "Kurdistan First" with the announcement of a referendum on independence in September. In neighboring Saudi Arabia, it's "Saudi First," as a brash young ...Read more
Trump dreamed of his name on towers across former Soviet Union
NEW YORK -- Weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was allied with a company in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that planned to build a 47-story luxury tower in the Black Sea resort of Batumi.
The tower, nixed ...Read more
Play ball!
Organ music belongs in great cathedrals. And what better or older American cathedral than a minor-league ballpark like the one in North Little Rock, Ark., with its little retro bandbox of a ballfield? That's where the ...Read more
CBO gives Senate health care bill a toxic score
The following editorial appeared in the Star Tribune on Wednesday, June 28:
Twice now, the Congressional Budget Office has provided a clear message to Republicans rolling out health reform legislation: The "cures" the ...Read more
Supreme Court rulings a wake-up call for liberals
The following editorial appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune on Tuesday, June 27:
Liberals have won enough big battles in America's culture wars in recent years -- most notably the rapid and still growing support for ...Read more
Rekha Basu: Don't be confused: Senate health care bill is bad news
It stands to reason that in an era of alternative facts and alt-right websites generating fake news, we're not getting the whole story on Senate Republicans' bill to overhaul the Obama-era health care law.
On Monday, Tom ...Read more
Time for Trump to harden Russia sanctions
The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, June 28:
President Donald Trump seems to want it both ways when it comes to Russian election meddling. In the months before Nov. 8, when polls ...Read more
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