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EDITORIAL: Dancing on the debt ceiling

Washington knows how to turn melodrama into farce. That's the lowdown on the debt ceiling debate about to be served up on Capitol Hill. It would be a laugh if it were not so serious. The oft-repeated argument that the nation must keep overspending in order to stay on course leaves the sane shaking their heads. But without a correction of direction, the unpayable bill will come due and there will be no last laugh. Published August 30, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump right to pardon Arpaio

After watching the news media accuse President Trump of wrongdoing for pardoning former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, I can't stand by without bringing up what President Obama did. Published August 29, 2017

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EDITORIAL: It’s 4th and long for Colin

Dr. Johnson observed that "patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." Perhaps, but scoundrels have moved on. Crying "racism" when there is no racism is the work of modern scoundrels, and most of them are on the left. Published August 29, 2017

People evacuate a neighborhood in west Houston inundated by floodwaters. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Rescuing Houston

President Trump is wasting no time not repeating George W. Bush's example in the wake of a storm. Published August 28, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let memorials teach lesson

What should Americans do with our most controversial, even repugnant, statues and memorials? The most popular solutions thus far have been to leave the statues alone, move them to a remote part of the city or town, put them in a museum or destroy them. The best solution for these statues, including that of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who in my view was a traitor to our country and fought for the perpetuation of slavery, is none of the above. Published August 28, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Push for less meat in school meals

With the new school year upon us, parents turn their attention to school clothes, school supplies and, yes, school food. More than 31 million children rely on school meals for their daily nutrition, which too often consists of highly processed food laden with saturated fat. Not surprisingly, one-third of our children have become overweight or obese. Their early dietary flaws become lifelong addictions, raising their risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Published August 28, 2017

White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Charlottesville disease continues

Two weeks after the fact, the continuing hysteria over Charlottesville is more about the temperature of President Trump's denunciations (there have been several) of Nazis, Klansmen and other white supremacists than about the riot itself. Published August 27, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fed quietly robbing U.S.?

While politicians and the media kept the country distracted and divided, the American people were robbed of $9 trillion by the Federal Reserve. The inspector general claimed no knowledge of the theft, and could not even speak to whether there had been any investigation to find out where the money went or how it got taken. Published August 27, 2017

Lou Ferrigno

EDITORIAL: A super-hero to the rescue

Combative times require sturdy leaders, and the only reality we have comes from the world of entertainment. The word that Lou Ferrigno, aka the Hulk, may be joining the Trump administration via the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition,is just plain good news. Published August 27, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Naval ship collisions worrisome

As a former Navy enlisted (1950s) and naval officer (navigator and officer of the deck, 1960s), I am quite concerned by the recent collisions of our warships in Asian waters. We lost seven sailors in the collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine-flagged shipping vessel, and 10 in the collision of the USS John S. McCain with an oil tanker ("U.S. Navy admiral: USS John S. McCain, oil tanker collision may have been intentional," Web, Aug. 21). Published August 24, 2017

FILE - In this Sunday, April 9, 2017 file photo, two Swiss guards stand in front of St. Peter's Basilica prior to a Mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The head of the Swiss Guards says the elite corps that protects the pope and the Vatican is ready to confront any terror attacks, following renewed threats against Rome by supporters of the Islamic State group following the Barcelona attack. Commander Christoph Graf told Swiss Catholic website cath.ch this week that "perhaps it is only a question of time before an attack like that happens in Rome. But we are ready also for this." (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

EDITORIAL: A stroll into danger

April in Paris. Autumn in Rome. White nights in Stockholm and Oslo. All suggest long, languorous walks through Europe's great capitals. In Europe as nearly everywhere else, the cliche is true: the best way to see a city is on foot. Published August 24, 2017

In this April 20, 2017, photo, cigarettes overflow from an ashtray inside the home of suspected child webcam cybersex operator, David Timothy Deakin, from Peoria, Ill., during a raid in Mabalacat, Philippines. Children's underwear, toddler shoes, cameras, bondage cuffs, fetish ropes, meth pipes, stacks of hard drives and photo albums cluttered the stuffy, two-bedroom townhouse. In his computer files, there were videos and images of children engaged in sex acts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

EDITORIAL: A choice, and a risk

Only a hermit in a mountain cave in the wilds of the Montana outback hasn't heard that smoking is hazardous to health, his, others and maybe even the health of the grizzlies. Since the U.S. Surgeon General warned everyone in 1964 that puffing the wicked weed is deadly as well as anti-social, no one can plead ignorance of the risk of lung cancer, other diseases, and a painful, premature death, Published August 24, 2017

Hundreds gather in front of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church as they make their way to La Lomita Chapel during a prayer walk in protest construction of President Trump's proposed border wall Saturday Aug.12,2017 in Mission, Texas. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP)

EDITORIAL: Obstructing the border wall

President Trump took his determination to build the border wall this week to Arizona, ground zero for illegal immigration, and threatened to shut down the federal government if Congress doesn't include a down-payment on the wall in the budget this year. Published August 23, 2017

EDITORIAL: Assault on the thin blue line

"Cops" is a cable-TV reality show and "Bad Boys" is its theme song. Now viewers in a growing number of places can get the street action watching bad boys take on the cops on the nightly news. The expansion of civil unrest across the American landscape is ominous enough, but the ferocity of the abuse of the nation's men and women in blue is more alarming still, a precursor to anarchy. The truly deplorable who hold the upholders of the law in contempt must get a grip, or be restrained, before the violence crosses the line into a primitive land of no return. Published August 23, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Media distorted Charlottesville

In cowboy movies the guys in the white hats always win, but life is not a cowboy movie. The majority of Americans (including me) would like to see the neo-Nazi movement disappear, as people in it are nuts — but then the Constitution gets in the way, as any American has the right to peacefully assemble. So as much as we can all hate what neo-Nazism stands for, we must tolerate these people when they exercise their constitutional rights. Published August 23, 2017