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My dormant newspaper juices were already simmering toward a rolling boil over the lousy national reportage – well, the lack thereof – on a story that I thought needed some attention when an even more egregious case of journalistic
Read moreAs of Sunday, the indictment had not been leaked. We don’t know the exact laws in question or how they might have been broken. The estimates run from 20 to 30 individual charges, including some felonies We will
Read moreSenator, NEW ENTITLEMENT. School vouchers are being considered by our legislature this year. As in every year for the past quarter century. This may well be the year the concept is approved. If it is, a new entitlement will be
Read moreAs with many recent military reports, the 2023 U.S. Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment agrees that climate change – global warming and its offshoots – “will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests as the physical impacts increase
Read moreThe U.S. Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment released early this month leaves one wondering if our intelligence wonks are too naïve for their jobs or talking in code. Somehow, their intelligence pertains mostly to foreign countries while ignoring similar
Read moreLast week, the U.S. Intelligence Community issued its Annual Threat Assessment. It cited the usual suspects – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – as our most determined adversaries. It even gave lip service to the climate crisis and other
Read moreThe ballot question allowing recreational marijuana was soundly rejected this week. In the Repo column in the Banner other sources told me that marijuana is a “gateway drug.” I wonder about how much and in what war that is a
Read moreEuropeans fleeing religious persecution or seeking better lives arrive on a foreign shore, defeat the local inhabitants, claim a manifest destiny to occupy their lands, dispossess the natives of their property, declare them second-class residents and herd them into
Read moreLast week, in a rare act of foreign policy sanity, the U.S. joined other United Nations Security Council members in criticizing Israel for its ongoing policy of planting settlements and settlers in West Bank territory. The vote followed
Read moreWhen is extending the debt ceiling not a debt ceiling crisis for Republicans? When they are the party in power, when scuttling the economy worse than their normal policies do might be a political depth charge. Except for
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