Ever since the departure of top advisers Gary Cohn and H.R. McMaster, it does seem as if the Trump White House has gotten more chaotic, if that were possible. But amid the noise and tumult, including the crazy tweets about Amazon and Mexico, let’s be honest — on one big, fundamental point, Donald Trump is […]
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Free speech takes another hit
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has apologized, as has the network, for nothing more serious than her tweet: “David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA … totally predictable given acceptance rates.)” The 17-year-old Hogg, a survivor of the February 14 mass […]
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President Trump threatening to repeat Obama’s mistakes
WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump excoriated President Barack Obama for “the way he got out of Iraq,” which Trump said “was the founding of” the Islamic State. As president, Trump reiterated during a meeting with Iraq’s prime minister that “we should never ever have left. A vacuum was created.” Trump was right. […]
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Be aware of sexual abuse by siblings
The Children’s Advocacy Center is a multi-disciplinary team of partners that promotes the healing of child sexual abuse victims by providing a strong community response to investigation, treatment and prevention of abuse. Of the 474 children seen in the past two years by our local center, 20 percent were abused by a sibling. Globally, one-third […]
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What is in our future?
I do not know how you feel, but I am deeply troubled about where we are and where we are going. Think about the various and mixed types of turmoil and unrest that we are experiencing today. This is not to imply that the world is always a place of evenness and stability. However, in […]
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China using narratives as weapons
In recent years, American national security agencies and commentators have begun using a new buzz term: narrative warfare. China is particularly adept at employing narrative warfare. There is an old proverb that says the truth is the best advertising, propoganda and public relations tool. Fact-supported truth is a powerful narrative. Unfortunately, the truth can be […]
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Fox News' Laura Ingraham taking a nosedive
For Laura Ingraham, the decline came well before the fall. The Parkland teens’ success in pressuring advertisers to flee her Fox News Channel show could cut her career down to tweet size. Ingraham made the mistake of mocking student leader David Hogg’s reaction to being turned down by several colleges. Ingraham is great at dishing […]
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Make Democrats an offer they can't refuse
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s tweet promising “NO MORE DACA DEAL” was an Easter gift to Democrats, letting them off the hook for their failure to seriously negotiate an immigration agreement. Rather than pulling the plug on any Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals talks, Trump should offer Democrats a simple deal: He would agree to codification […]
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King’s call rings with fresh urgency
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Martin Luther King’s men had a different question. At least, according to his aide, Andrew Young, they did. When the first reports went out that King had been gunned down while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in this city, America and the world demanded to know one thing: Who […]
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Solution to government dysfunction ignored
KEY LARGO, Florida — At dinner with friends, I was asked what is wrong with Washington. The question presumes a standard by which “wrong” can be defined. I am frequently asked this question by people who do not live in “the swamp.” They don’t behave like Washington politicians. If a disagreement arises in their personal […]