For two decades, Beijing has disdained legal borders and seized territory without consequence. Letting Beijing continue to get away with it will result in global disaster.
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Vanessa Paolella: A tale of two sales
I imagine the Times-Tribune will soon look a lot like the Sun Journal would without Russ Dillingham, Mark LaFlamme, Donna Perry or the many other longtime staff members who’ve made our paper what it is.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: To what do we pledge our allegiance?
As a Boy Scout, I sometimes wondered why we pledged allegiance to the flag ahead of even the republic. Then as now, I thought the republic more important than any of its symbols.
Rich Lowry: No, we aren’t Rome
By all means, study the history of Rome for its own sake and for the insights it affords into human nature and the roots of the Western world. But the moral of the story needn’t be about 21st-century America.
Clarence Page: ‘Can you hear gunshots?’ Student texts reveal horrors from inside an active shooter lockdown
Unfortunately, anyone who has been paying attention knows where Congress is likely to go as long as the politics of gun safety continue to be locked in partisan gridlock for as far as my mortal eyes can see.
Cal Thomas: More climate fiction
It’s been a good summer for climate activists who are pushing the false narrative of “climate change.”
Sure, consumers’ savings are down, but so is their debt
Debt balances rising back to the pre-pandemic trend would make those households responsive to the Fed hikes. The day “excess savings” overall run out is less important than when “less debt” ends.
Marla Hoffman: The long, hard, stinking road to labor’s glory
Marla Hoffman looks back on her working history and the laborers who helped her get ahead.
Clarence Page: Not even the reality of racial violence can overcome the razzle-dazzle of a presidential candidate
Sure, it’s hard to see what you already have decided does not exist. Unfortunately, in today’s angry political world, it is more tempting to exploit racial differences than to build bridges.
Rich Lowry: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Jan. 6 charade
Vivek Ramaswamy thinks Mike Pence failed. The former vice president is a MAGA villain for doing his constitutional duty on Jan. 6, so Ramaswamy has to find a way to wiggle out of endorsing his conduct on that day, no matter how convoluted or inane.