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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kavanaugh much needed now
No one should be living under the delusion that Brett Kavanaugh will not become a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Kavanaugh will sit on the court before the midterm elections and will help decide all of the election cases that the progressive left will attempt to alter, modify, disrupt or pervert in some way. Published September 4, 2018
EDITORIAL: Democratic impeachment narrative is noisy, but so far it’s bluff and bluster
Impeachment is the Democratic daydream, but most senior Democrats, who have been in Washington long enough to know how things actually work, are holding their tongues. If they cry impeachment now, with nothing more legally substantial than a wish and the dream, they only encourage Republicans to rally for November. Without control of the House, impeachment, which requires only a majority vote to indict, is unlikely. Without firm control of the Senate, conviction, which requires a three-fourths majority, is virtually impossible. Published September 3, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Sessions should back Trump
Saying that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is "missing in action" is on-target, not vitriolic ("Trump turns up heat against Sessions, his strongest ally in the Cabinet," Web, Sept. 2). Published September 3, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: CNN lacks all credibility
So Michael Cohen's attorney is now saying Mr. Cohen lied about President Trump knowing there was a meeting supposedly concerning illegal actions. CNN, which shoved this all down peoples' throats, will not take the story back. This is "the swamp" in all its lying nature. CNN's license to be on the air in any way should be taken away. Its lack of investigation into these lies is the way of Washington and much of the press. Published September 3, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kaepernick not worth trouble
Football player Colin Kaepernick alleges a collusion among the teams of the NFL to keep him off the field, and all should welcome his attempt to prove such a conspiracy exists. Mr. Kaepernick is to football what the Fiat 124 Sport Coupe is to vehicles: An exhilarating car to drive, but a sentence of woes to own. Fiats ("Fix It Again Tony"s) simply weren't worth the trouble of owning. They're not, after all, Lamborghinis. Published September 3, 2018
EDITORIAL: A boycott of California’s iconic In-N-Out teaches Democrats a lesson
If Bill Clinton is regarded as one of the most astute of the Democrats — he survived impeachment and a credible accusation of rape — Chairman Eric Bauman of the California Democratic Party is a pol with a lot to learn. Published September 2, 2018
EDITORIAL: Democrats should revisit Bill Clinton’s tribute to abortion
Clever marketing is as important to selling a political candidate as selling a laxative or a Lexus. Bill Clinton and the Democrats insisted a generation ago they wanted abortion to be "legal, safe and rare?" Published September 2, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump was right on flag
Donald Lambro is wrong when he writes that " when a member of Congress dies, flags are flown at half-staff until interment" ("Paying respect, even to adversaries," Web, Aug. 30). In fact, the U.S. Code states that the flag should be lowered to half-staff "on the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress." Published September 2, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cohen charges total nonsense
The special counsel's offshoot crew in the Justice Department's Manhattan office managed to leverage President Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, into pleading guilty to a campaign violation non-crime ("Trump: Cohen's campaign finance violations 'not a crime,'" Web, Aug. 22). Published September 2, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: With left, truth first to die
Reporter Carl Bernstein has no problem going after Republicans while remaining silent about Democratic transgressions ("CNN fires back at Trump: 'Many fools in this story but Carl Bernstein is not one of them,'" Web, Aug. 29). Mr. Bernstein was so worried about President Nixon, Nixon's staff and the subversion of justice during Watergate, but amazingly that concern has not carried over to President Obama or that administration. Published August 30, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Segregation by another name?
It seems that racism will not die. The latest demand from the political left is that teachers look like their students. And, as we as a population become browner and blacker, the leftists say there are not enough brown and black teachers. But think about that: If a classroom has 35 students and 20 of them are brown or black, the leftists would demand that the class have a brown or black teacher. But what about the remaining 15 white kids? Do they not deserve a teacher who looks like them, too? Published August 30, 2018
EDITORIAL: Trump gets the NAFTA deal his critics said couldn’t be done
Donald Trump has held any number of positions on just about everything — abortion, single-payer health care, even illegal immigration. Now governing as a rock-ribbed conservative, Mr. Trump took a circuitous path to his current ideological home. Published August 30, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Don’t bring back Democrats
Just how naive and easily manipulated by the pathos of political correctness and the liberal media is the American electorate that we may actually be on the cusp of repopulating Congress with the same political party that brought us the Obama agenda? Published August 29, 2018
EDITORIAL: Just saying ‘OK’ to drugs
No one asks to be born. Yet the dawning of self-realization brings the inescapable challenge to make the best of life. Many "kill it," figuratively speaking, surmounting the hurdles and making their time on earth a blessing to themselves and to their fellow men (and women, too, if it's really necessary to say it). Most people manage to live graciously and seal their achievements to the gratitude of family and friends. Published August 29, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trash deadly junk science
What happened to Maryland football player Jordan McNair is an example of incompetence on the part of the coach, and also apparently abuse ("Forced eating, vomiting set Maryland scandal apart," Web, Aug. 26). It won't be the first time that this has happened and it might be the rule for many athletic teams. One notorious example in the past 40 years was forced hydration — 'Drink before you are thirsty' was the forced regimen. This actually did not come from any sound, honest scientific trials, but the sports-beverage industry. The result was hyponatremic encephalopathy, which leads to death. Long-distance runners were dying of these conditions, and one of the most notorious was a young woman, Dr. Cynthia Lucera, during the 2002 Boston Marathon. Published August 29, 2018
EDITORIAL: ‘Regulating’ speech will invariably savage the First Amendment
Playing God, even online, is not as easy as it looks. Facebook, Twitter and the other technology firms in control of the social-media universe are learning that with nearly limitless power comes the responsibility to administer it fairly. So far social media has failed. Bias, mostly but not all left-leaning, has obstructed the free flow of dialogue. Unless the tech giants figure out how to remedy their tendency to mediate political discourse by leaning left, the bloom will fade from the unmatched flower of human connectivity, and bad things will follow. Published August 28, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump followed law with flag
I read with interest "Trump pays tribute to McCain, orders flags back to half-staff after complaints" (Web, Aug. 27). While the organizations mentioned in your article recognized that the president was following the law ordering U.S. flags to remain at half-mast for two days, they insisted Sen. John McCain deserved an extended period of recognition. Their opinion has prevailed and President Trump has re-lowered the flag until the time of Mr. McCain's burial. Published August 28, 2018
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump keeping promises
The American people are slowly but surely realizing that President Trump is not part of yesterday's Republican Party. First of all, he is a fighter. That's new for Republicans. Second, he really is for the middle class. His tax plan lowered taxes on the middle class and raised taxes on the rich, as evidenced by the outcry from states with high state and property taxes. Published August 28, 2018
EDITORIAL: Nation mourns John Sidney McCain III, who represents what America aspires to be
Heroism on the battlefield is the ultimate tribute man can pay to those whom he loves, and above all to his country. But such heroism is not limited to the actual fields where sword flashes against sword. Published August 27, 2018
EDITORIAL: It’s navel-gazing time, and the gazers find mostly lint
Washington is a one-horse town, and that horse, a swayback nag, is politics. Politics is a year-round business and with the congressional midterms less than 2-1/2 months away it's high season for pundits. Published August 27, 2018
