In “The debate is still out on alewife runs” (Sunday, June 24), columnist V. Paul Reynolds notes amazement at seeing a healthy run of alewives at Webber Pond. Hundreds — perhaps thousands of people took time this spring to make their way to rivers and streams to witness the power and mystery of alewife migrations. […]
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Trump's trade war has officially started
After months of feint, bluster and desultory attempts at compromise, the phony trade war between the U.S. and China has given way to the real thing. For the sake of both countries, these self-defeating hostilities need to cease – and the principal responsibility for this rests with the U.S., which has fired the first shot. […]
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Iran's internal clash
The December 2017, nationwide protests that surprised and rattled Iran’s clerical dictatorship never quite subsided. Demonstrations occurred in January 2018, then again in April. Since mid-May, publicly expressed anger in Iran’s would-be global revolutionary state has intensified to the point that regime internal security units have fired on demonstrators. There is no accurate death toll […]
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We're getting a raw deal
On this day of celebration from sea to shining sea, I am thinking about some of the phrases and anecdotes that we associate with past presidents. George Washington could not tell a lie. Abraham Lincoln asked us to be better angels. FDR said that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. Harry […]
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Roe is a travesty
The prospect of overturning Roe v. Wade will be at the foreground of the battle over Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement, and it should be. Roe is judicially wrought social legislation pretending to the status of constitutional law. It is more adventurous than Miranda and Griswold, other watchwords of judicial activism from its era. It is […]
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Trump tricks naive Democrats on immigration
If I worked for Donald Trump and designed a T-shirt that read “I don’t believe in borders” in Spanish — and I got a Democratic congressman, say Minnesota’s Keith Ellison, to parade in it — I’d probably get a raise. Heck, he might even give me a top agency job with his unspoken permission to […]
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The left's contempt is going to re-elect Trump
WASHINGTON — Democrats have a new theory for how they can win back Congress and the White House. Just like “soccer moms” helped put Bill Clinton in the Oval Office in 1996, and “NASCAR dads” helped George W. Bush win in 2004, Donald Trump, the theory goes, was elected because of “#NeverHillary” voters who didn’t […]
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Some professions are more than professions
This one feels different. And what does it say about this country when one has seen enough mass shootings to become a connoisseur of them? But yes, what happened last week in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis does feel different. It feels too close for comfort. Part of it is that […]
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Trump supporters compared to cultists
Bob Corker, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, recently compared supporters of President Trump to members of a cult. The Washington Post quoted Corker as saying: “It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it? It’s not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that […]
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Scientific facts are not political
The recent column by Cal Thomas portrays climate change science as “hysteria” and “propaganda.” I challenge this view by citing five major takeaways from the US Global Change Research Program draft special report of June 28, 2017: 1) Global temperatures are rising — faster than any time in the last 1700 years; 2) Significant atmospheric […]