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Opinion

Animals are not good Easter presents

Editorial

We don’t want to rain on anyone’s Easter parade, but if you’re thinking it might be cute to get the kids some chicks, ducklings or even a bunny for their Easter basket, we’d ask that you think again. Animal experts warn that very much like puppies and kittens at Christmas time, chicks, ...

Is Trump ‘tanking’ the Republican Party?

Columns

When the Republican Party has lost 30 state legislative special elections in a row since President Donald Trump's re-election, when all the governor elections in 2025 were also lost, and a historic number of Republicans in Congress have opted not to seek re-election, it has to make you think ...

Trump never actually had a plan

Columns

When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative (last) Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls "the weave." What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic. While spinning his ...

Iran’s other enemies

Columns

It's not just Israel. One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit — the U.S. is just along for the ride. This view not only discounts the U.S. interest in defanging Iran, but neglects that ...

Run on pitchforks and torches?

Letters To The Editor

Funding government infrastructure, education, healthcare, social security and defense through taxation must be a shared burden, but many ultra-wealthy use tax code loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. Hiring tax attorneys to “legally” amass wealth and pay zero taxes doesn’t make ...

Hope for the dead

Columns

"That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...