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  • Published
    May 28, 2023

    Cal Thomas: Tim Scott: The new Reagan

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard the kind of optimism contained in Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) announcement of a presidential run.

  • Published
    May 28, 2023

    Emma Hargreaves: Wabanaki studies is for Maine’s democracy

    I call for compliance with required teaching and I reject an approach to the law that suggests white people do not benefit; Wabanaki Studies is the most relevant synthesis of American democratic values for all Maine students.

  • Published
    May 27, 2023

    Jonette Christian: The chaos of misguided compassion

    Stop exploiting cheap foreign labor. Pass universal E-Verify. Enforce immigration laws at the worksite. Put human traffickers out of business. And inspire Central Americans to take charge of their countries, too.

  • Published
    May 27, 2023

    Bob Neal: The Countryman: Tough times for men and those who love them

    In recent decades, as women generally — I’m painting with a broad brush here — have moved into formerly male-dominated domains, the outlook for boys heading to manhood has dimmed.

  • Published
    May 26, 2023

    Froma Harrop: DeSantis should worry whether he can even win Florida again

    If Florida Democrats find an acceptable candidate, they might just recapture the governorship. America probably doesn't want to become DeSantis' Florida. Florida may not like that either.

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  • Published
    May 26, 2023

    Cal Thomas: DeSantis for president?

    Not only must Florida Republican Gov. DeSantis effectively introduce himself in these and other states, he must overcome former president Donald Trump’s large lead in the polls. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows GOP voters favoring Trump 36.1% to just 19.9% for DeSantis.

  • Published
    May 25, 2023

    Rich Lowry: The bussing of migrants has worked

    The bussing of migrants from border states to big cities has been an enormous political success for Republicans seeking to focus attention on President Joe Biden's policies that have failed to stop — indeed, affirmatively encouraged — a massive surge of illegal immigration.

  • Published
    May 24, 2023

    Margaret McRae: LD 1639 is a bad move for patients and nurses

    LD 1639 (“An Act to Address Unsafe Staffing of Nurses and Improve Patient Care”) removes nurse autonomy to make the necessary decisions to provide safe, effective, quality care. It essentially reduces every patient and every nurse to just a number by mandating nurse-to-patient ratios. These ratios are not evidenced based and do not take into account the patient as an individual.

  • Published
    May 22, 2023

    Meet the Red Bike Guy who in a viral video heckled white nationalists

    Joe Flood said he has lived in D.C. for 30 years and has felt more protective of the city since the Jan. 6 insurrection.

  • Published
    May 22, 2023

    A fulfilling job is a luxury of modern times

    The growing interest in cultivating job satisfaction dovetailed with a larger cultural shift toward individual self-fulfillment that reached new levels by the 1960s and 1970s. A job, like an unhappy marriage, should be abandoned if it no longer met a person's emotional needs.