Cal Thomas: Trump should follow LBJ’s example

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Published
March 22, 2023

Cal Thomas: Trump should follow LBJ’s example

A Trump withdrawal from the 2024 race would open up the field to candidates with less, or little, political and personal baggage and help voters to focus more on important issues than Trump’s caustic personality.
Published
March 22, 2023

Rich Lowry: Alvin Bragg prepares to cross the Rubicon

All signs point to Bragg, the progressive prosecutor in Manhattan, indicting Donald Trump for his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
Published
March 20, 2023

Go ahead, America. Give European companies billions.

Europe is leagues ahead of the U.S. in adopting carbon pricing, and there's no shortage of European funding available. But accessing that money and getting planning permission must become less bureaucratic.
Published
March 19, 2023

Rich Lowry: Shakespeare is not about whiteness

Yes, instead of standing in the line of literary giants such as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be associated from now on with the likes of the 19th century French apostle of scientific racism Arthur de Gobineau, George Wallace, and — why not — the Oath Keepers.
Published
March 19, 2023

Mikki Rice: Don’t weaken Maine’s Good Samaritan Law

If LD 714 passes as written, it will add unlawful trafficking, unlawful furnishing and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person to the crimes that someone can be charged with at the scene of an overdose. People are often charged with trafficking or furnishing even if they are not trafficking or furnishing their drugs to others, simply because of the amount of drugs they have in their possession.

Published
March 19, 2023

Cal Thomas: SVB not anyone’s fault?

At a time when retirees and others are seeing their stock market investments decline and polls showing there is dismay about the country’s financial future, Congress has an obligation to step in and hold accountable the policies and the people responsible for the SVB collapse, and to prevent new ones from occurring.
Published
March 19, 2023

Froma Harrop: Before DeSantis, Miami was fun

For Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, spending grown-up time on a threat to the Western alliance might seem an unwanted distraction from his main theme of waging a comic-book war against "woke." For example, his administration has just revoked the Hyatt Regency Miami's alcohol license because it hosted "A Drag Queen Christmas."
Published
March 19, 2023

Jackie Elliott, Dana Colihan, Peter Blair and Nora Bosworth: The landfill operator who cried wolf

Casella’s recent sudden decision to stop landfilling sludge at Juniper Ridge is a blatant attempt to undo vital legislation and is a classic bullying tactic.
Published
March 19, 2023

Clarence Page: Mike Pence still walks a shaky line between courage and cold feet

How can history or anyone else properly hold the former president accountable if Pence won’t share details of his interactions with Trump leading up to the 2020 election and the day of the attack on the Capitol?
Published
March 19, 2023

Austin Bay: The southern border Is a hybrid war zone

The hybrid war's current weapons: deadly drugs (fentanyl), human trafficking (to include child sex and work slavery), migrants sapping social welfare dollars budgeted for deprived American citizens and noncitizens voting illegally.

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