Froma Harrop: Free speech needs muscle

Columns & Analysis

Published
April 14, 2023

Froma Harrop: Free speech needs muscle

When hecklers prevented an invited speaker from addressing an audience at Stanford's law school, what could have been a peaceful protest turned into an act of verbal violence. It's easier to stop people from crossing these boundaries when you've established boundaries.
Published
April 12, 2023

Cal Thomas: Splitting the difference, or just splitting?

Today, the debate is about sports. Tomorrow it’s anyone’s guess when “off limits” will apply only to signs at a military base or construction site and nowhere else.
Published
April 11, 2023

Clarence Page: Justice Clarence Thomas’ appearance of impropriety? We’ll be the judge

Whether his failure to file all of his disclosure statements resulted from bad legal advice or not, he is hardly the only person who needs to have a code of ethics to help end that confusion.
Published
April 10, 2023

Major League Baseball’s revolution has just begun

Too often in recent years it felt like, when it came to strategy, baseball was a "solved problem." Find pitchers who throw really hard and generate a lot of strikeouts, and find hitters who hit home runs even if they strike out a lot and can't do much else. Things became too stagnant and predictable.
Published
April 9, 2023

Sen. Russell Black: Maine regulations sometimes don’t keep up with technology

LD 400 is rather straightforward and directs the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to examine the setback requirements for wood boilers that are much more efficient now than they were even 10 years ago.

Published
April 9, 2023

Austin Bay: Evaluating Mac Thornberry’s four critical points

Former congressman and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry named four points he claimed U.S. leaders must recognize if America is to remain "dominant on the world stage."
Published
April 9, 2023

Cal Thomas: Trump unites, then divides

The ultimate verdict should be up to voters, not Democratic prosecutors and judges appointed by Democrats. Letting voters decide Donald Trump’s fate might help restore some of the public’s faith in the legal and political systems which are now in serious disrepair.
Published
April 9, 2023

Clarence Page: How Mickey Mouse outwitted Florida’s governor

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' feud with “wokeness” has put him at odds with corporations such as Disney that have pursued pro-diversity policies, not in opposition to sound business practices, as the “anti-woke” movement argues, but because of them.
Published
April 9, 2023

Froma Harrop: Is it time to pity DeSantis?

Ron DeSantis seems to be fading under the technicolor lunacy of Donald Trump. That's a hard act to compete with, especially when the Florida governor's act is a watercolor version.
Published
April 9, 2023

Andrew DeFilipp: It’s not nature, but profits that threaten Lake Auburn

If development proceeds, it could force Auburn’s hand and require an extremely expensive water filtration system on the dimes of the taxpayer; backing for private investment and fortune for only those shareholders.

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