Bob Neal: The Countryman: A long view of the Supreme Court rulings

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Published
July 8, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: A long view of the Supreme Court rulings

Supreme Court Justices are basically the only high federal employees with no code of ethics.
Published
July 7, 2023

Cal Thomas: The catastrophe du jour

Consider this from a recent article in the respected journal Scientific American: “It takes a lot of water and energy to make negronis, Manhattans and margaritas. Could we do with less ice?”
Published
July 7, 2023

Clarence Page: At least the Supreme Court offered alternatives to affirmative action

Find a kid who has overcome social and economic obstacles in pursuit of success and, regardless of their race, you have someone who is closer to what most folks view as the American ideal of a fair chance to succeed.
Published
July 6, 2023

Froma Harrop: Do we really need to travel?

Quaint Bar Harbor, Maine, recently had to put limits on cruise ship visits. Some ships were so big, they would disgorge 4,000 passengers into this town of only 5,200 people.
Published
July 5, 2023

Rich Lowry: Justice Jackson’s abysmal affirmative action dissent

Jackson spends a lot of time recounting the country's racial sins and then declares them inescapable today. Even if this simplistic account were true, she fails to establish why racially biased college admissions are legal or warranted.

Published
July 3, 2023

The Supreme Court made it harder — again — for women to get justice

In practice, the court's new standard makes prosecution harder. And it invites appellate courts to overturn jury convictions in stalking cases if the courts think there was no proof that a defendant reckless disregarded the threatening nature of his statements.
Published
July 3, 2023

America exiled this veteran for 11 years. Now he’s a citizen.

"I'm proud to be an American," sang Howard Bailey, 52, a Navy veteran who was ripped from his family, his home and his business in the early morning darkness 13 years ago by immigration agents following up on a 20-year-old pot conviction.
Published
July 2, 2023

Clarence Page: A Supreme Court surprise. How the Right rescued the Voting Rights Act

In Alabama, where 1 in 4 voters is Black in the state’s seven congressional districts, the justices ruled that the Republican-dominated state legislature had denied African American voters a reasonable chance to elect a second representative of their choice.
Published
July 1, 2023

Froma Harrop: Biden’s economy is boffo

Look at the record, starting with inflation. Remember six months ago, when Republicans were hollering over the price of eggs? For a variety of reasons, the wholesale price of eggs rose to over $5 a dozen. Now the same carton costs 99 cents. Doesn't that deserve at least an honorable mention?
Published
July 1, 2023

Clarence Page: Supreme Court ethics? More than ‘balls and strikes’

The proper role of a Supreme Court justice, as Chief Justice John Roberts famously said in his own confirmation hearings, is “to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.”

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