WASHINGTON — Among the world’s major economies, America’s is “the least ugly,” as Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, puts it. So it is. The American economy is plodding along at about a 2 percent annual growth rate, which is much slower than most past periods, but compared with most other […]
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Progressive America a political lightweight
If the polls hold, scoring tickets to “Hamilton” will be as good as it’s going to get for Bernie Sanders in New York. But let us first linger in Wisconsin, where Democrats and independents gave Sanders what looked like a decisive win. It seems that 15 percent of Sanders’ Wisconsin supporters voted only for Bernie, […]
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Violent Islamists assault antiquity
Violent political Islamists intentionally target irreplaceable archeological and historical sites for sensational obliteration. Internet videos record the ISIS’s calculated destruction of Syria’s city of Palmyra. Prior to Palmyra, Nimrud (northern Iraq) was bulldozed before cameras. Jonah’s Tomb (Jonah and the Whale), located in a mosque in the ISIS occupied city of Mosul, was blown to […]
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Hillary must showcase new, grander ideas
WASHINGTON — It will not be the first time that a Clinton relies on the tough-minded voters of New York to salvage a front-running presidential candidacy. On March 24, 1992, an insurgent candidate named Jerry Brown (yes, California’s current governor) upended Bill Clinton, the Democrats’ nominee-in-waiting, in the Connecticut primary. To re-establish his primacy, Clinton […]
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Bill Clinton’s ‘apology’ doesn’t cut it
By the next day, Bill Clinton was feeling remorse. Almost. “Now I like and believe in protests,” he explained to an audience at Penn State Behrend. “But I never thought I should drown anybody else out. … So I did something yesterday in Philadelphia. I almost want to apologize for it, but I want to […]
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Islamist terrorists can go wherever they wish
LONDON — It’s called Frontex and, according to its website, the agency “promotes, coordinates and develops European border management in line with the (European Union) fundamental rights charter applying the concept of Integrated Border Management.” Except that it isn’t. As reported by the UK Daily Mail, “Mass immigration is allowing terrorists to sneak into the […]
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LD 633 deserves Legislative support
Like most health care organizations, Franklin Memorial Hospital is a place hugely impacted by the Affordable Care Act, what many call Obamacare. One of those impacts is a change in federal reimbursements — something that affects all hospitals, but especially those serving rural communities. And when we combine these reimbursement changes — intended to help […]
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Men get headlines, their women go unnoticed
If you’ve been following Hulk Hogan’s successful suit against Gawker or Donald Trump’s rumble with a gossip writer, you may have come across some missing people. Both stories lean on “love” triangles in which one of the sides, the woman, is of so little consequence she’s rarely even named. The men may act with warped […]
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Dysfunction fuels problems in Brazil
WASHINGTON — Woe is Brazil. As the summer Olympics approach in August, Latin America’s largest country — with a population of 206 million and an economy that is 40 percent of the region’s total — is caught in a harsh slump and faces a political crisis that could result in its president being impeached. How […]
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Put away childish things and pick sides
If the Republican Party is to be saved from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz’s runaway victory in Wisconsin will have been the inflection point. If you thought this service to the GOP would be met with plaudits from the party’s insiders, you obviously don’t know anything about their relationship to the Texas senator. St. Augustine famously […]