Austin Bay: Reviving the Iran deal is more than another display of chronic Biden ineptitude and weakness

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Published
March 27, 2022

Austin Bay: Reviving the Iran deal is more than another display of chronic Biden ineptitude and weakness

Reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is more than a display of chronic Biden ineptitude and strategic weakness — the kind of stupidity that threatens world energy supplies — paying off Iran also spurs terrorism and brushfire wars in the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries.
Published
March 27, 2022

Sen. Rick Bennett: Parents cannot work without quality child care, and that is an economic problem for all of us

A recent research report by Council for a Strong America puts into perspective the financial tolls that child care workforce challenges place on Maine’s economy. The report notes that the lack of child care just for infants and toddlers exacts an annual cost of $57 billion nationally in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue. The estimate for Maine is about $180 million per year.
Published
March 27, 2022

Cal Thomas: Dealing with the Iranian devil

Making a deal with the Iranian devil will not reverse the public's view of the Biden administration's failures. It will only make them worse.
Published
March 27, 2022

Froma Harrop: Who says Democrats are soft on crime?

Calls for building mental health services should be heeded. The growing consensus, though, is that social workers can help police but can't replace them.
Published
March 27, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Dear Sen. Booker

Senator, you did well. You found a way to turn ugliness into light, to remind America of itself. Small wonder Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wept. After days of this, years of this, a lifetime of this, she surely needed what you had to offer.

Published
March 26, 2022

Froma Harrop: Consumer societies are clearly worth defending

Consumer societies are not weak because their people like road bikes, garage door openers and air fryers. The choice of goods that come in boxes rewires the society to be more flexible and eventually stronger in ways that can't be touched.
Published
March 26, 2022

Rich Lowry: Why Trump?

Republicans could have their pick of a variety of alternatives in 2024 who don't personalize everything, who don't create a haze of chaos around everything they do, and who don't carry more baggage than the underbelly of an Airbus A380-800.
Published
March 25, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences

There is a qualitative difference between protecting diversity of opinion from official encroachment and inventing some magical “right” to say any harebrained thing you want without being “shamed or shunned.” Such a “right” would be more dangerous than the problem it purports to correct.
Published
March 24, 2022

Rich Lowry: Vladimir Putin and the fragility of order

During Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said that he was behaving "in a 19th-century fashion." The truth is that Putin is behaving in a 19th-century, 20th-century and 21st-century fashion. He is confirmation of the fact that progress is not inevitable, and peace and order are fragile. Human nature means that remorseless and power-hungry men will always be with us, no matter how advanced we believe we have become.
Published
March 23, 2022

Cal Thomas: The many forms of censorship

Which brings me to the Hunter Biden laptop story — the "discovery" by The New York Times that his laptop and its contents are real, after all. Not only did the Times and other major and social media ignore the story, in some cases the story was deemed fraudulent and blocked on several platforms.

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