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    December 11, 2022

    Vacationland: The way license plate slogans should be?

    The question of keeping the Maine license plate moniker has been a recurring question.

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    December 11, 2022

    Austin Bay: Time to rid the world of China’s Trojan horse communications gear

    Conceivably, the Chinese systems are offensive weapons: Trojan horses with intercontinental power. The Chinese Communist Party could use these pseudo-civilian systems to launch a cyber-Pearl Harbor attack on an adversary possessing them. The attack could damage the adversary's economy (e.g., shut down banking). If executed quickly and pervasively, the sneak attack could disrupt military communications channels and disable high-tech sensors.

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    December 11, 2022

    Cal Thomas: The New York Post and real journalism

    In years past, when journalism was trusted by consumers much more than it is today, The New York Post might have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop.

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    December 11, 2022

    Froma Harrop: Time to regulate crypto? Why not Beanie Babies?

    The crypto markets crashed amid a sobering string of scandals, crimes and the growing evidence that much of this wealth was basically made-up money. Amid so much suffering, calls have been growing in Washington to impose government oversight on the industry.

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    December 11, 2022

    Leonard Pitts Jr.: How to be a Black man

    Step one, watch what Herschel Walker does. Step two, do the opposite.

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  • Published
    December 10, 2022

    Rich Lowry: An emphatic ‘yes’ to killer robots

    With the U.S. experiencing lackluster productivity growth since 2010, we need the best robots and AI that we can muster. We shouldn't fear them just because — decades-old spoiler alert — HAL turns out to be a dastardly villain in "2001: Space Odyssey."

  • Published
    December 10, 2022

    Bob Neal: The Countryman: Unchecked, unbalanced, out of control

    The idea of “checks and balances” was drilled into those of us who took civics in high school. Now, an emboldened Supreme Court of the United States may be about to end those very checks and balances that keep our system in, well, balance.

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    December 8, 2022

    Leonard Pitts Jr.: Have we finally learned our lesson?

    We find ourselves at a dangerous milestone. For all the talk of his declining influence, Trump remains the face of the GOP and our government is stocked at all levels with his acolytes. What happens if they take seriously his claim that the Constitution is null and void?

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    December 7, 2022

    Cal Thomas: Congressional lame duck quackery

    Warnings about overspending and high taxation are ignored. The Founders gave us a Constitution that established boundaries beyond which government cannot go. They repeatedly advised against excessive and ongoing debt. That government has long exceeded constitutional limits is why it has become so dysfunctional in so many areas.

  • Published
    December 5, 2022

    The midterms may be over, but we have other civic responsibilities

    Today, we owe it to each other to ensure that all American citizens can cast a ballot — but staying politically involved beyond voting, echoing the tradition of those who signed petitions in the 19th century, can safeguard our democracy.