Cal Thomas: Beckel and me: An odd couple

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Published
March 3, 2022

Cal Thomas: Beckel and me: An odd couple

Argue, yes, but don't demean the humanity or patriotism of someone with whom you disagree. Bob always urged people to sit down and listen to someone who belongs to a different political party, a different religion, a different ethnic or cultural group. You might not end up agreeing with each other, he said, but you will better understand the other person.
Published
March 2, 2022

Rich Lowry: Nationalism’s finest hour

The Russian tanks may roll into Kyiv, but Russia won't ultimately triumph over Ukrainian nationalism.
Published
February 28, 2022

Russian aggression puts Erdogan in a bind

Erdogan knows from recent memory the pain Turkey feels when economic ties with Russia are hindered. The last time trade between the two countries was severely constrained was in 2015: Then, the restraints were imposed by Putin, in retaliation for Turkey's shooting down a Russian military jet. The number of Russian visitors plummeted, and the Turkish leader was obliged to apologize.
Published
February 28, 2022

Inequality has long driven Black parents to pull children from public schools

Today many Black families are still facing injustices in the public schools, including high rates of exclusionary discipline, too few Black teachers and re-segregated schools. This leads to difficult choices, just as Clara Muhammad and the families who joined her schools realized in the 1930s.
Published
February 27, 2022

Rich Lowry: BLM is a moral, political and policy disaster

The rise in violent crime is a clear and present danger to the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, and progressive prosecutors allied with Black Lives Matter who have pursued soft-on-crimes policies in the midst of a crime wave are under fire, facing either recalls or heavy criticism.

Published
February 27, 2022

Rev. Doretta Colburn: Our constitutional rights to a clean and healthy environment are long overdue

Who among us does not treasure the natural beauty of Maine’s landscape from ocean to mountains, lakes, rivers and all the breathtaking wonders we are so fortunate to be surrounded by? It is why we love Maine and why we want to protect it for future generations.
Published
February 27, 2022

Froma Harrop: Fight Russian aggression with clean energy

Moving the world away from fossil fuels would erase Russian President Vladimir Putin's biggest nonnuclear weapon. After all, oil and gas accounted for 39% of Russia's budget revenue and 60% of its exports in 2019.
Published
February 26, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: What begins in lies tends to end in carnage

It is far too early to know how devastating this latest European war will turn out to be, how many will die, how many will be left homeless and stateless, how the repercussions will play out across the globe. There is, however, an ominous resonance in the lies from which it arose.
Published
February 26, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Rural Maine is dying. Who cares?

We all know that the decline of paper making is part of a decline in manufacturing, especially in rural Maine, but when you list the declines together, it really hits home. A short list: Forster Manufacturing (toothpicks, clothespins, etc.) closed all its mills in rural Maine, four of them in Franklin County. At least three tanneries have closed, all rural. Of the once-strong industry of shoe shops, not much remains other than the three New Balance shoe shops. Diamond Match in Peru and Oakland? Gone.
Published
February 25, 2022

Cal Thomas: Failing to understand Evil: Then and now

Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine under several pretexts reminds me of Adolf Hitler's rationale for invading and annexing Sudetenland in 1938 and his invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland a year later.

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