Leonard Pitts Jr.: Trump ‘fell under malignant influence’?

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Published
July 22, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Trump ‘fell under malignant influence’?

One is reminded of that classic “The Twilight Zone” episode where Billy Mumy played a willful child with godlike powers, and the adults were forced to tiptoe around him, smiling strained smiles they did not feel, constantly assuring the brat his every wish and whim was golden, under threat of oblivion or pain. They had to act like crazy was normal.
Published
July 21, 2022

Froma Harrop: Elon Musk wants to be in our faces

Musk's demands for attention border on the maniacal. Twitter-obsessed, he signed a $44 billion deal to actually buy the social media company. After Twitter stock has gone down, he is trying to wriggle out of it. Twitter says, "Tough luck, see you in court." In or out, everyone's talking about Elon.
Published
July 20, 2022

Cal Thomas: Extreme cases and bad law

The pro-choicers may be overreaching. Churches have been vandalized and burned. So have pregnancy help centers, which offer their services for free, unlike most abortion providers who charge a fee. A not-so-subtle anti-Catholicism has also been directed at Supreme Court justices who are Roman Catholic. Pro-lifers have countered by targeting abortion clinics and threatening the lives of abortion providers. Where will it end?
Published
July 18, 2022

The default of Elvis’s Graceland should worry tourism sites

Though the King of Rock and Roll died Aug. 16, 1977, he has active fan clubs and buyers of his music worldwide and a new biopic in theaters. That's why his Memphis home still draws around 500,000 visitors a year, down about a third from the crowds that came 25 years ago.
Published
July 17, 2022

Alex Lear: Good night, Sweet Bear

Walter was like a concrete block with four legs. He had a bowling ball butt that he rested on people he liked, which was pretty much everyone. His rugged torso rumbled like a bass drum when you patted it.

Published
July 17, 2022

Cal Thomas: Biden’s poorly timed visit to the Middle East

Despite the cover-up with noble intentions, this trip is about trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to produce more oil so U.S. gas prices will come down to tolerable levels ahead of the November and 2024 elections. What will the U.S. get in return? Probably no more than Biden and Obama got from opening diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Published
July 17, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Trump ‘fell under malignant influence’?

How many friends do you have, gentle reader — much less mere “advisers” — who could influence you to plot a coup against the U.S. government? How weak-minded would you have to be? The fact that such shabby and absurd reasoning passes as strategy within the walls of Trump World suggests not just how desperate things are in there, but how detached from reality the people inside have become.
Published
July 17, 2022

Rich Lowry: Abortion isn’t saving the Democrats

A party that exists in its own echo chamber and that is more and more reliant on the votes of a highly educated, socially progressive portion of the electorate simply can't process the idea that the rest of the country may be in a different place. Instead, it is consumed by its own obsessions.
Published
July 17, 2022

Carl Sheline: The only way forward

I’ve learned a lot over my first six months as mayor, and it’s more clear to me than ever that we need to move Lewiston forward together: elected officials, city administration, business owners, service providers and residents. We need to leave the failed policies of yesterday in the past and focus on solving problems.
Published
July 16, 2022

Froma Harrop: Even for techies, work from home is only a remote possibility

Apple CEO Tim Cook did talk of allowing some work-from-wherever setups, but on a very limited basis. As he told workers, "We have an opportunity to combine the best of what we have learned about working remotely with the irreplaceable benefits of in-person collaboration."

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