The bussing of migrants from border states to big cities has been an enormous political success for Republicans seeking to focus attention on President Joe Biden’s policies that have failed to stop — indeed, affirmatively encouraged — a massive surge of illegal immigration.
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Margaret McRae: LD 1639 is a bad move for patients and nurses
LD 1639 (“An Act to Address Unsafe Staffing of Nurses and Improve Patient Care”) removes nurse autonomy to make the necessary decisions to provide safe, effective, quality care. It essentially reduces every patient and every nurse to just a number by mandating nurse-to-patient ratios. These ratios are not evidenced based and do not take into account the patient as an individual.
A fulfilling job is a luxury of modern times
The growing interest in cultivating job satisfaction dovetailed with a larger cultural shift toward individual self-fulfillment that reached new levels by the 1960s and 1970s. A job, like an unhappy marriage, should be abandoned if it no longer met a person’s emotional needs.
Meet the Red Bike Guy who in a viral video heckled white nationalists
Joe Flood said he has lived in D.C. for 30 years and has felt more protective of the city since the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Clarence Page: Justice dies when politicians turn vigilantism into a campaign stunt
New York’s justice system must decide whether Daniel Penny was criminally “reckless” or just trying to help. The system needs to seek justice, not just revenge.
Froma Harrop: America needs both parties to secure the border
Democrats have started, and Republicans are invited.
Austin Bay: South Korea bets arsenal ships will give North Korea and China second thoughts
Take a very large but comparatively inexpensive civilian commercial ship. … Now pack the ship with vertical launchers and several hundred long- and mid-range missiles capable of destroying enemy shore targets and perhaps enemy surface ships. Add short-range air and missile defense weapons and presto, enormous sea mobile firepower bang for the buck.
Rich Lowry: Daniel Penny wasn’t a vigilante
What progressives are doing is taking praise for someone who stepped up in a difficult circumstance and twisting it into something perverse, dangerous and racist.
Cal Thomas: Biden vs. Coolidge at Howard
These two commencement addresses at Howard University — one from President Biden, the other from President Coolidge — sound as if they could have been reversed. Biden’s speech might have been more fitting in 1924 and Coolidge’s in 2023. One was full of praise and optimism about the future and the value of African Americans; the other was depressing and invoked a false indictment of America from a president who ought to know better.
Elliott Epstein: Expect a bumper crop of McMansions in Auburn’s ag zone
Auburn appears to be heading towards making its AG Zone “agricultural” in name only.