Froma Harrop: DeSantis was right to vote against hurricane aid in 2013

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Published
October 15, 2022

Froma Harrop: DeSantis was right to vote against hurricane aid in 2013

Rebuilding after Ian should now be up to the people and their insurers. The bill for help beyond immediate emergency services ought not go to the taxpayers of Massachusetts and Nebraska. The 2013 Ron DeSantis was right about that.
Published
October 13, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The National Weekend of Bigots

It was enough to make you wonder if someone’s been tampering with the nation’s water supply. But that’s a dodge, isn’t it, the idea that this baseness, this sordid profanation of our common humanity, must be the product of something external?
Published
October 12, 2022

Cal Thomas: A prophecy come true

If a judge and a growing number of people no longer recognize what many consider immorality, then immorality wins.
Published
October 10, 2022

In the 1850s, the Irish faced the same hostility as today’s immigrants

The great fear was that immigrants raised in an Old World culture of despotic monarchy, aristocratic privilege and the suppression of ideas could not be expected to uphold the democratic values of the American republic. The immigrants were instead thought to be the tools of corrupt and opportunistic demagogues. There was also the widespread belief that Catholics, bound by their allegiance to the pope, could not be loyal U.S. citizens.
Published
October 10, 2022

Immigration’s burden doesn’t fall on a ‘handful of red states’

According to research by economists at Harvard University, Americans overstate the number of immigrants living in the United States by almost fourfold. They underestimate their education and employment rates, and overestimate both their poverty and the burden they impose on American taxpayers.

Published
October 9, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Money no longer fears LGBTQ people

More to the point, it understands that there is a market here. And if some LGBTQ folk are concerned by the commodification and merchandising of their identity, it’s nevertheless important to understand what the very fact of those processes suggests: that the battle for hearts and minds is over, and LGBTQ won.
Published
October 9, 2022

Rich Lowry: Don’t fear Elon Musk

Elon Musk is about to pollute the country's discourse, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop him. This is the alarm going up about the eccentric billionaire's on-again, off-again, on-again-if-it-looks-like-a-Delaware-court-is-going-to-insist-on-it acquisition of Twitter.
Published
October 9, 2022

Austin Bay: Did Biden’s Afghanistan disaster undermine the Indo-Pacific Quad?

The Biden administration's Afghanistan debacle horrified India. India made a major diplomatic, economic and political commitment to stabilizing Afghanistan. When Biden ran away and America suffered a defeat, India also suffered a defeat.
Published
October 9, 2022

Cal Thomas: Hurricane Kamala

Why Kamala, you ask? Because, like a hurricane, Vice President Kamala Harris is sometimes difficult to track, her direction is often unpredictable and the damage she causes can be substantial.
Published
October 9, 2022

Froma Harrop: Abortion bans actually deter women from having babies

Threats. Hounding by creeps seeking $10,000 bounties. Physical and mental agony because doctors are afraid to act. Such are the risks of getting pregnant in the state of Texas. Small wonder if fewer women even try.

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