Nearly two weeks after part of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside sheared off in the middle of the night, the search for answers is not moving nearly fast enough to keep pace with the all-too-human need to know.
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Cal Thomas: Democrats blame Republicans for defunding police
The reason we have the law and police officers sworn to enforce it (and politicians who take oaths to uphold the law) is that there are people who won’t obey the law under any circumstances. The left has used incidents of police brutality and alleged racist behavior to advance an agenda that harms the very people who want and need police protection.
Retirees, forget the 4% withdrawal rule
The only real rule is that blindly sticking with 4% is dangerous. Most experts agree it’s no longer safe to just assume the same historic returns for stocks and bonds, so 3% or 3.5% withdrawal rates might be better.
Jesse Jackson: Time for a new ‘Good Neighbor Policy’
Biden has sensibly insisted that we must “build back better” at home and abroad. Our neighbors to the south in Latin America offer a clear opportunity to show that is true. Now more than ever, it is time for a new Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America.
We can repeat Boston’s 1776 freedom summer
Boston’s “freedom summer” ended on Sept. 18, 1776, when the city ordered the guardhouses closed and the city to reopen for business.
Some call voting restrictions upheld by Supreme Court ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’ Here’s the ugly history behind that phrase.
How did white supremacist lawmakers get around the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed Black men the right to vote, and later, the 19th Amendment, which should have secured the vote for Black women? Here’s a look at their legal and illegal methods.
Let the market fix labor shortages
A shortage misdiagnosis can have serious repercussions, particularly if it leads to policies that offer up lower-cost substitutes for American workers and suppress wages.
Rich Lowry: Republicans should abandon the bipartisan infrastructure deal
They have nothing to gain by blessing a portion of President Joe Biden’s spending plans, when an ungodly amount of money is going to go out the door regardless of whether they vote for a chunk of it or not.
Austin Bay: Communist China’s calculated lies and calculated buys
China knows how to curry below-the-radar favor with international political figures, bureaucrats and opinion leaders — then, when a problem develops threatening Chinese Communist Party interests, use covert influence to stifle criticism or delay a response.
Héritier Nosso: Our immigration policies hurt families. It’s time for a pathway to citizenship
It’s time for our elected officials to acknowledge immigrant essential workers with more than just words of thanks. As Congress debates passing further COVID relief packages, they need to include a pathway to citizenship and reunite families who have been kept apart by our inhuman immigration policies.