This is in response to William Sullivan’s letter (July 3). To paraphrase Mark Twain, America’s demise is greatly exaggerated. On Inauguration Day 2009, President Barack Obama was installed according to the will of the people, then he was re-elected in 2012 by a majority of voters and Electoral College votes. Sullivan is welcome to his […]
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M. Nadeau: A basic American value
Regarding the letter to the editor, “Obituary for America,” written by William Sullivan (July 3), I have two observations: The first relates to his comment about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding same-sex marriage. He has a right to denounce the Court’s decision. Perhaps “equal justice under law” has a different meaning to me than […]
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M. Morin: President should resign immediately
“We don’t have a plan yet.” That is what President Obama announced on international television at a meeting with leaders from Germany, England, France and other senior officials while in Germany. No kidding. It has been a year or more since ISIS told him (and all Americans) that they were coming to America. They declared […]
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L. Hoy: The diminution of America
I once thought that awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize at the onset of his first term suffered from the committee’s gross presumption and the award’s painfully obvious prematurity. Now I see the award’s timing was its chief virtue: When else could the Nobel Peace Prize have been awarded to a man who’d go […]
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Republicans must rescue free-trade pact
WASHINGTON — That free trade is advantageous to both sides is the rarest of political propositions — provable, indeed mathematically. David Ricardo did so in 1817. The Law of Comparative Advantage has held up nicely for 198 years. Nor is this abstract theory. We’ve lived it. The free-trade regime created after World War II precipitated […]
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Far left so wrong on TPP trade deal
The left’s success in denying President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership is ugly to behold. The case put forth by a showboating Sen. Elizabeth Warren — that Obama cannot be trusted to make a deal in the interests of American workers — is almost worse than wrong. It is irrelevant. The Senate […]
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M. Morin: The press wedded to Obama minions
Within a few short months after Barack Obama was elected president, I started looking for reasons why so many members of the press never questioned or criticized him about the constant lies or pompous comments about “lines in the sand,” “consequences,” etc. I found some interesting answers recently from Natural Society. Other examples were tweeted […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama granting Iran free reign
WASHINGTON — In December, President Obama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a “very successful regional power.” His wish — a nightmare for the Western-oriented Arab states — is becoming a reality. Consider: • Gulf of Aden: Iran sends a flotilla of warships and weapons-carrying freighters to reinforce the rebels in Yemen […]
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L. Hoy: Fault lines separate Americans
In 2008, candidate Barack Obama promised to “transform America.” At the time, I wrote that off as campaign hyperbole of no more substance than spiffy slogans such as “hope and change.” I remember a few pundits trying to draw my attention to that promise to transform America as a dangerous pledge. A true “transformation” requires, […]
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Austin Bay: Obama didn’t do diplomacy well
Poles knew September 2009 would be a bitter month. It marked the 70th anniversary of their country’s great geo-political catastrophe, the start of World War 2 and their nation’s imprisonment. The 21st-century bitterness Poles did not expect was President Barack Obama’s shocking Sept. 17, 2009, announcement. To “reset” U.S.-Russia relations, Obama said he had terminated […]