WASHINGTON — As “60 Minutes” prepares to air its interview with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, conservative Christians are being accused of hypocrisy. How can so-called “values voters” continue to stand with President Trump despite revelations that he allegedly had affairs with a porn star and a Playboy model, and paid them for their silence? No […]
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Home to a place they have never been before
John Denver sang about the Rocky Mountains before he had ever seen them. It may be that many immigrants to our country, illegal and legal alike, sang about America before they ever saw it. And they flock here. By plane, by boat, by train, by car and many by foot. So many that they make […]
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What comes next for Russia, Putin?
Perhaps Vladimir Putin was using his experience meddling in U.S. elections to meddle in his own. Putin “won” re-election last Sunday with about 76 percent of the vote, not as much as the 99 percent Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein “won” and maybe not as impressive as the nearly unanimous vote by the People’s Congress to […]
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Protect the children from all forms of violence
The thought of innocent kids, teachers and support staff being shot in the nation’s schools should shake us all to our core. Although I do not agree that guns are the reason people decide to perpetrate these horrible crimes, I do recognize that, as a defender of the right to own firearms, I must be […]
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Single-parent households linked to poverty
WASHINGTON — Anyone who has raised children knows that it’s a messy, trial-and-error process, with an emphasis on “error.” It’s hard enough to do well with two parents, a reasonably stable and sane marriage and a reliable income. When there’s only one parent with a meager income, the burdens mount and feed on themselves. That’s […]
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Mueller would be the worst of all firings
Unsurprisingly for the former host of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump has given us every variety of firing. There have been necessary firings (at three weeks, the ouster of Michael Flynn was long overdue), cruel firings (Rex Tillerson, check out Twitter) and spectacularly ill-advised firings (the cashiering of James Comey that led directly to the hiring […]
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It's OK to have a difference of opinion
WASHINGTON — I am a rock-ribbed conservative who wants Republicans to keep control of Congress. But I am not unhappy that Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone appears to have lost the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. Why? Because he insulted my mother. Trailing his Democratic opponent in a district Donald Trump won by […]
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Students, don't let the gun lobby wear you down
Only three students were shot at an American school Tuesday. Two of them were hospitalized, and only the 17-year-old gunman died. This made the attack at a southern Maryland high school a fleeting news item. The Austin, Texas, bombings edged it out. The 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado opened a new horrifying […]
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Parkland students are leading the way
Something came awake in them. That has to be the explanation. As they cowered in closets, as they said goodbyes and waited, with gunfire echoing down the halls, to die, something inside stirred itself. And when they didn’t die, when these teenagers left the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland alive — something […]
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California’s FACT Act lacks some information
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether pro-life pregnancy help centers in California should be required to post notices informing women of the availability of abortions elsewhere. The pregnancy help centers are contesting the law, disingenuously named the California Reproductive FACT Act, claiming it violates their free speech rights, as well as […]