Dave Griffiths: The nature of small-town living

The hens and Uncle Tony and Otis and the hog and the frenzied woodpeckers wouldn’t have appeared in the suburbs where I spent some of my formative years. Back then nature meant keeping your yard mowed to a level that approximated those of properties up and down the street. Anything else meant you just didn’t quite fit in.

Cal Thomas: Promoting lawlessness in Chicago

The cure to lawlessness is not to indulge the lawbreakers by justifying or seeking to explain their behavior. It is to enforce the law. Doing so serves to tell others there are consequences for illegal behavior and justice will be swift and certain.

Froma Harrop: New York needs more tourists like Jim Jordan

New Yorkers should thank Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan for helping (unwittingly) remind the country how safe their metro area is compared to his own.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, April 23

Clarence Page: Enough flowery speeches, Mr. Mayor-elect. It’s time to move on to governing

A strict lock-’em-up, law-and-order approach has its place, but so does the helping-hand, summer jobs approach that tackles the root causes of crime and aimlessness among young people most likely to slip over the edge into crime.

Rich Lowry: Republicans can’t run and hide on abortion

Republicans at the national level, right now, are scared. You can hear it in their silence on the issue of abortion after a district judge in Texas struck down the FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. That decision also came immediately after Republicans lost a key race for a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin to a progressive jurist who ran, to a large extent, on abortion.

Clarence Page: GOP, beware. Abortion politics are firing up both sides

Remember how conservatives used to decry “judicial activism?”? As I recall, that was before they began to see an advantage in some judicial activism of their own.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The U.S. needs to be workin’ on the railroads

When a train goes off the tracks between Jackman and Rockwood, it harms the fish and the rest of the environment. In East Palestine, Ohio, it harms all the people, too.

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, April 22

Tom Fallon: Those who oppose abortion should embrace adoption

Simply, quietly, may I encourage those who strongly oppose abortion to adopt with love unwanted, in-danger children, if they are to live? This would be a Christian act of love. Tom Fallon, Rumford