WASHINGTON — How evil is MS-13? Last year, two gang members in Texas reportedly murdered a teenage girl as an offering to Satan. According to prosecutors, the gang leader (known as “Diabolico”) told the young girl that “the Beast” wanted “a soul” before having his partner shoot her in the head and dump her body […]
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Dumping Roseanne: Quick, dirty and smart
Roseanne Barr’s divorce from civilization started 28 years ago. Given the honor of singing the national anthem at a San Diego Padres-Cincinnati Reds game, she shrieked the words and, upon concluding, spit at the ground and scratched her crotch. All choreographed for a national TV audience. Then-President George H.W. Bush called the performance “disgraceful.” So […]
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Italy could be facing financial crisis
WASHINGTON — If you’re nostalgic for the 2008-09 financial crisis, you can cheer up. Another debacle may be on its way. Its epicenter would be Italy, which may threaten the rest of the world economy. Under the worst-case assumptions, Italy could abandon the euro — the single currency now used by 19 countries — and […]
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Thank Republicans for Right to Try laws
WASHINGTON — Imagine the horror of learning you have a terminal illness for which science has not yet come up with a treatment. Now imagine receiving the same diagnosis, and then learning a promising new treatment exists that could save your life — but you can’t get access to it thanks to governmental obstacles. That […]
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China's Belt and Road Initiative, camouflaged in silk
Think of it as a revived Silk Road, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in 2013 when he announced China would proudly sponsor a multi-decade international commercial and infrastructure development project — notionally running from China through Central Asia and connecting to points beyond. Yes, a benign Silk Road where all prosper. The project would have […]
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This time, the joke was on Roseanne Barr
I told you so. I’m sorry, maybe that’s petty, but I can’t help it. For over a month now, I’ve felt like a man caught in a feedback loop, doomed to joust until the end of time with readers upset with me for writing that I would boycott the hit reboot of Roseanne Barr’s eponymous […]
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Ireland makes its decision on abortion
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists. […]
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Trump's war on Planned Parenthood
Who is kidding whom? President Donald Trump claims he is trying to “improve women’s health” by depriving them of medical advice, forcing their doctors to lie and increasing the cost of routine women’s health care all at once. He’s back at it. If the Chinese won’t listen to him, then why not beat up on […]
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A state of many Maines
We’re accustomed to thinking there are two Maines. I’ve logged hundreds of thousands of miles around Maine in the past 38 years, to almost every nook and cranny. I’ve come to believe that two is an undercount. What most folks probably imagine when they think of “two Maines” is that there is Portland along with […]
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'Blue Wave' or barely a ripple?
Since the first of this year, Democrats have boldly spoken of their coming Blue Wave. To understand the reasoning for such enthusiasm there needs to be an agenda that the average person finds attractive and one that will enhance the lifestyle of their family. The thrust of this agenda centers on the following topics: 1) […]