Winning the argument is better than never-ending arguments. We know what works and what is not working. Let’s apply that knowledge and experience. It would get the country out of debt and shrink the overreach of government, contributing to more liberty, not less, as seems to be what we are currently experiencing.
Op-Eds
Austin Bay: Communist Chinese imperialists steal sub-Saharan Africa
China’s calculating communist-imperialists dominate 21st century empire-building in sub-Saharan African.
Andrew Barton: Expand Maine’s ecological reserve system
Most agree that the Ecological Reserve System needs to be expanded. So, what’s stopping that? In the original 2000 legislation to create the system, an arbitrary cap was placed on total acreage. It’s time to remove that limit.
Lori Dwyer: Immigration reform urgently needed to help meet rural health needs
Our current immigration system imposes trauma on good and decent people. I have personally watched families experience the agony of living with uncertainty in legal limbo. The human costs alone are reason enough to provide a path to earned legal status and citizenship.
Rich Lowry: The left’s coming defeat in the mask wars
The late economist Herb Stein famously said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Well, masking can’t go on forever, but that’s not stopping its advocates, who will very likely, when all is said and done, look nearly as foolish as the fierce proponents of school closures earlier in the pandemic.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Some words we can jettison
Let’s consider the words “expert,” “iconic” and “disinformation.” All are a) overused, b) misused or c) used to obfuscate. Or all of the above.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: For some, white is the default position
Granted, this is not the bigotry of torches and hoods. No, this rhetorical decoupling of “African” and “American,” of Black people from normal human functions, represents “only” the bigotry of the implicit assumption, the things some people believe without consciously knowing they do — much less interrogating why they do. And yet, they do.
Rich Lowry: The worst European ally
President Biden said that there’d be divisions within NATO over a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine. This is true enough, and the chief cause would be a Germany that is staking a strong claim to be our worst European ally.
Cal Thomas: Mitch McConnell deconstructs President Biden
Too many of today’s “journalists” sound like shills for the Democratic Party, crafting their questions and writing their stories as if they are channeling that party’s talking points and worldview.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did their job for them in his deconstruction of recent remarks by the president. Polls show Biden voters are expressing buyer’s remorse. They can be expected to reverse course in November.
Mascots get a makeover, with less sex appeal and more Gen-Z anxiety
The brand promised “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester wit and humor.”