WASHINGTON — Anyone who tells you that dealing with climate change is simply a matter of sweeping away the obstructionism of oil companies is living in a dream world. The real obstacle is us — our vast dependence on fossil fuels and the difficulty of extricating ourselves without crippling the world economy. It’s true that […]
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Making it right for the 'Red Eddies'
When I was in high school, I tried out for the basketball team and — much to everyone’s clear surprise — made the roster. I scored exactly one basket during the entire season, which was chalked up to a lucky shot because I truly lacked any skill for the game. I remember being relieved when […]
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Attacking the NRA is really attacking everyday Americans
WASHINGTON — A few weeks before the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) invited a special guest to attend the State of the Union address: Stephen Willeford, the hero who just months earlier had stopped a mass shooter at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. An ordinary citizen who […]
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China turns away from genuine democracy
For the last five years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has methodically acquired additional positions of authority within China’s government. Xi is this century’s most powerful Chinese leader. His power matches that of modernizer Deng Xiaoping and approaches that possessed by Chairman Mao Zedong. So prepare for Emperor Xi, a high-tech 21st century monarch clothed in […]
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Deterrence would have worked in Parkland
MIAMI — The list of failures in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are becoming legion. If any or all of those failures had been addressed, 17 students and teachers might be alive today. In addition to the several balls dropped by the local FBI office, it […]
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A case of America’s glaring moral hypocrisy
People were furious that Breana Harmon Talbott was raped by black men. She actually wasn’t, but we’ll get to that. For now, let’s concern ourselves with the way some folks responded after the then-18-year-old white girl from Pottsboro, Texas, stumbled into a church last March clad only in bra, shirt and panties, bleeding from cuts […]
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Middle America must lead on guns
America desperately needed a new kind of citizen leader to force political change. She found it in the students, parents and teachers scarred by the massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Watch how effective they’ve been at making the case for tighter gun laws. Watch how they’ve alarmed politicians under NRA control. Their power […]
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Republican Party will outlast Donald Trump
By Ed Rogers Special To The Washington Post What President Donald Trump said about how he would have run into the Parkland, Florida, high school is wrong on so many levels. It is offensive and even grotesque. Right? Of course. It was wildly egotistical, self-serving and inconsistent with what we know about Trump’s general approach […]
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American culture and God
Matthew 5:13-16 13. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. 14. “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot […]
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Trump won't find a replacement for John Kelly
If John Kelly didn’t exist, President Donald Trump would have to invent him, and he wouldn’t be able to. The chief of staff has had a rocky couple of weeks — first it was the imbroglio over ousted White House staff secretary Rob Porter, and now stories of a brewing clash with Jared Kushner — […]