WASHINGTON — Just because Donald Trump isn’t qualified to be president — and just because much of his agenda is hateful and undesirable — doesn’t mean that everything he says is automatically wrong. Some of his ideas deserve consideration and enactment. One of these is building a wall across our southern border with Mexico. It […]
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Pro-Russia Assange to target Clinton
If Julian Assange plays this right, he just might score an invitation to CPAC next year. The notorious WikiLeaks founder would have to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference remotely because he is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, avoiding a rape investigation in Sweden and fearing extradition to the United States […]
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Clinton follows Nixon’s pattern of memory lapses
One wouldn’t think Hillary Clinton and former President Richard Nixon would have a lot in common, but in responding to FBI investigators that she “could not recall any briefing or training by State related to retention of federal records or handling classified information,” Clinton took a page straight out of Nixon’s playbook. In a March […]
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A postcard from post-factual America
“Why haven’t you reported that Colin Kaepernick’s actions are due to his radical Muslim beliefs? Why are you covering this up?” So reads an email sitting in my inbox. Not shockingly, Snopes, the fact-checking website, has rated the claim it makes as false. Kaepernick, an NFL quarterback, did not mention religion in explaining why he […]
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Adding Somali language at LHS would improve communication
And inturn that would increasechance that students will succeed “I am writing to express my views about the announcement that Lewiston High School will offer Arabic and Chinese language classes this year. The biggest challenges for Somali parents in Lewiston are language barriers and understanding the school system. Communication between parents and school is very […]
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Instability in Middle East fuels rise of radical Islamists
NEW YORK — On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was driving on the Long Island Expressway, heading out to a friend’s house to spend a few weeks working on a book. An hour into my drive, I switched from music to news and listened with horror to reports that two large passenger planes […]
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Obama takes U.S. prestige to new low
WASHINGTON — The president of the United States lands with all the majesty of Air Force One, waiting to exit the front door and stride down the rolling staircase to the red-carpeted tarmac. Except that there is no rolling staircase. He is forced to exit — as one China expert put it rather undiplomatically — […]
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Trans-Pacific Partnership works for U.S.
There has been a lot of debate about the benefits of trade to America in recent weeks. Allow me an opportunity to introduce some facts on why it is so important to our company, our workers and our community. P&G sells products in more than 180 countries and territories, with manufacturing sites spread throughout the […]
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Trump the true star of corruption in politics
WASHINGTON — Better than anyone, Donald Trump made the case for why our campaign money system is rotten. Unsurprisingly, the prime example he used was himself. “I was a businessman,” Trump explained at a Republican debate in August 2015. “I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need […]
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Trump’s followers look to the past
Some time ago, the public intellectual Milton Himmelfarb put his finger on what the current presidential campaign is all about. Referring to his fellow Jews, he said that they “earn like Episcopalians, and vote like Puerto Ricans.” Never mind the rearview mirror of PC tut-tutness, what Himmelfarb had observed was that not all the people […]