Ari Fleischer wants to know if we’re being fair. “How much in society should any of us be held liable today when we’ve lived a good life, an upstanding life by all accounts, and then something that maybe is an arguable issue, took place in high school? Should that deny us chances later in life?” […]
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Just another smear campaign by the leftists
The woman who alleged in a confidential letter that as a high school student in Maryland in the ’80s Brett Kavanaugh “pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore […]
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Survey shows faith in the future lacking
WASHINGTON — It has long been an accepted axiom in the United States — and also in many advanced democracies — that the future would be better than the past. People took it for granted that living standards would rise and that life would be more comfortable and stable. Well, kiss that optimism goodbye. A […]
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Sometimes the voters just want competence
In our highly polarized era, we too often judge election results from the confines of partisan politics. That’s not nearly as useful on the state and local levels, where elected officials have roads to fix, kids to educate and budgets to balance. Voters want people who can do the job. Ideology can wait. The conservative […]
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Kavanaugh disregards rights of persons with disabilities
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Thus, thundered Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the 1927 case of Buck v. Bell, using the power of the Supreme Court to protect the shameful “Eugenics Movement.” The proponents of eugenics believed that the government had the right — even the obligation — to forcibly and surgically sterilize, […]
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An economic boom is a terrible thing to waste
President Donald Trump is showing that it’s possible to preside over a period of peace and prosperity and still be notably unpopular. Over the past several months, Trump has opened even more of a wedge between the largely benign material conditions in the country and his own political standing, which is precarious and appears to […]
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Billionaires, others pouring money into Maine’s U.S. House race
Some of the richest, most powerful people in America — including at least 15 billionaires — are pouring millions of dollars into Maine this fall. It’s not for a new factory, a coastal resort or anything that would directly benefit most Mainers. Instead, they’re using the cash to try to influence the outcome of the […]
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C’mon, Maine. We’re better than this
With respect to the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, we are being told by the fringe left that this highly-qualified jurist, who is a loving husband and dedicated father of two girls, is an evil misogynist who will singlehandedly overturn Roe and who has ruled that women can be forced to have an abortion. Further, we […]
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The threat to democracy — from the left
NEW YORK — For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.” They have noted that the movement of countries toward democracy has slowed or stopped and even, in some places, reversed. They also note a general hollowing out of democracy in the advanced, industrial world. When we think […]
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Taking a history lesson from the 'Federalist Papers'
They don’t teach history, at least American history, like they did when I attended public school. That’s why the recent hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to become an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court served as a teachable moment. Repeatedly, Kavanaugh referenced the Federalist Papers, which were essays by the founders that expanded […]