For veterans in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, there is an immense sense of pride that comes from serving their country. Unfortunately for some, they were involuntarily separated from the military due to their sexual orientation, making them ineligible for many Veterans Administration benefits earned by veterans by their military service. Between the […]
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Andrew Whitney: Use these times as motivation for change
Peaceful protests, accompanied by organized and violent riots, have erupted in the streets across the United States. In light of those events, surrounding race and the law enforcement community, I feel it appropriate to tell a personal story. When I was 16 years old, I was stopped by an officer on Route 2/26. Although my […]
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Brad Peterson: Grandfather’s chair
When Beverly Peterson moved from her family home into Schooner Estates, she sorted through her photo albums and found a poem her grandson, Brad Peterson, wrote in 2008 when he was in college. The poem was prompted by memories of his grandfather, Richard Peterson, who died in 1998 when Brad was 10 years old. Richard […]
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Froma Harrop: Political grief on top of fear, depression and economic loss
COVID-19 is not at all over and shows every sign of staging a return. We’ve been through a lot of fear, depression, and losses of income and loved ones. Much can’t be changed, but the leadership can, from sloppy governors to President Donald Trump at the top of the heap. Trump seems not just incapable […]
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Rich Lowry: Selective social distancing rules just a scam
Earlier this week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had big news — the city is opening up its iconic Lakefront Trail after months of being closed off as part of a COVID-19 lockdown. That Lightfoot kept the trail closed even after Chicago had experienced large-scale Black Lives Matter marches — thousands just last weekend during the […]
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Leonard Pitts: Basketball would be a great distraction
Dear Dwight Howard: So I hear you’re not sure you want to come back and play basketball. Your team (also my team), the Los Angeles Lakers, was considered a championship contender before the season was abruptly halted by the coronavirus pandemic. Now comes word the NBA plans to resume a modified schedule on a closed […]
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Froma Harrop: Pandemic lights the way for green technology
Some say the pandemic has become a permanent ally in the fight against climate catastrophe. It has jump-started a drop in the burning of fossil fuels, and that will continue. Others say this is short-term thinking: The public may abandon its concerns over global warming as it tries to climb out of the economic hole […]
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Cal Thomas: Tearing down history will not help
It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us. One of those “others” is Caroline Glick, who writes on her webpage from Israel: “Americans are now expected to kneel for the Star Spangled Banner and disavow American history while swallowing whole a false, malicious new history that claims America […]
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Rich Lowry: A presidency is a terrible thing to waste
President Donald Trump is in the midst of a polling swoon largely of his own making. It’s true that events have taken a hand — a pandemic with a death toll of more than 100,000, a sharp recession, double-digit unemployment and civil unrest would be the horsemen of the apocalypse for any incumbent president. Experiencing […]
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Leonard Pitts: Don’t say, ‘I am not a racist’
This column is presented as a public service. A few days ago, Greg Glassman, the founder and CEO of CrossFit, set off an uproar by belittling the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. In a Zoom call with gym owners, he bristled at the idea of memorializing a man whose killing […]