Bringing the troops home
James "Jamie" Dean, a veteran of the Afghanistan war, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shortly after Thanksgiving, received orders to deploy to Iraq by New Year's Day.
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Navigating the great divide
In the months after the election of Donald Trump, there was a mini-political movement in California to get the Golden State to secede from the Union.
Redeeming Iran
No matter how intense, the heat of summer yields to the moderating breezes of its successor season. Brutal governments that scourge their own inevitably face movements that hold out the promise of liberation and peace. The passage of 40 years, time enough to span three generations, tests the ability of the suffering people of Iran to endure the inhumanity of their radical Islamic regime.
Tlaib, other scum disgrace office
Usually, a freshman Congress member is a little more reserved in their public comments. Not so for new Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who isn't wasting any time picking a fight with the president ("Welcome to the 116th Congress, the 'impeach the motherf--' era," Web, Jan. 4). Ms. Tlaib's insane profanity last week kind of sums up the caliber of Democratic newbies.
Border walls shown to work
The experiences of other nations conclusively show that border walls are effective. The results in Israel and Hungary are dramatic. David Rubin, the former mayor of Israeli city Shiloh, said that when Israel erected a high-tech wall on its southern border, illegal immigration was completely eliminated. From 2010 and 2012, approximately 55,000 illegal immigrants entered Israel. Many perpetrated serious crimes, so the Israeli government built a wall near the Egyptian border. The wall was completed in 2016, and that year only 11 illegal immigrants entered Israel. After they raised the height of the wall an additional several feet in 2017 not one illegal made it through Israel's southern border.
A short-lived football league's flurry
In recent years, the National Football League (NFL) has been mired in numerous controversies, from players who kneel during the national anthem to the long-term health effects of concussions on players. In 1982, the challenge to the NFL was the emergence of the United States Football League (USFL).
New year, new chance to reclaim 'God-given'
It's 2019 and if this new year should bring anything, it's a national reclamation of what makes this country the absolute best in the world -- the notion that here, in America, individual rights are recognized as coming from God, not government. There's a resolution worth keeping, wouldn't you say?
Welcome to the 116th Congress, the 'impeach the motherf--' era
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is Michigan's newest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, and because she's a Muslim woman raised in "southwest Detroit who didn't speak English," as she self-identified on Twitter, that makes her elevation to public office worthy of historic note. And then she crowed this, right after her swearing-in ceremony, about President Donald Trump: "Impeach the motherf--!"
A lot of noise before the storm
Thursday was a strange day in Washington. There was the changing, not of the guard but of half of the Congress, and Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats acted as if she were Franklin D. Roosevelt (in drag) and it was 1932 and "happy days are here again."
The federal bureaucracy in check
Congress, despite many chances, has not been willing to take responsibility for checking "the administrative state," as the aggrandizing bureaucratic power of federal agencies has come to be known.
The president and a divided nation
When newly-elected Republican senators take their seats this week in the U.S. Senate, they are not expected to lay out their differences with the president of their own party.
Not your mother's Equal Rights Amendment
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
Keeping America prosperous and safe
Thanks to the rural-urban divide, Democrats controlling the House and Republicans the Senate may be the new normal, but that will empower, not frustrate, presidents charged with keeping America prosperous and safe.
Fight Pelosi et al.
After listening to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer recently rant and rave over what they intend to do for the next two years in their quest to impeach our president, I couldn't help but to wonder whether they were born vindictive, anti-social malcontents or have had to work at it.
Romney for president, or something
Mitt Romney is nothing if not flexible, and he usually bends a little to the left. He has been in the public eye for decades, but he has served only four years in an elective office, as governor of Massachusetts. He has now been the junior senator from Utah for a day. His dearth of time in office hasn't been for lack of trying. He ran for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 1994, governor of Massachusetts in 2002, president in 2008, president again in 2012, and finally for the Senate in Utah. Mr. Romney has either a profound determination to serve his country, or an ardent craving for the spotlight. Maybe it's a little of both.
Cartels thrive on border chaos
It's time to give our border control agents college credits for their resumes. How about three credit hours for day care support, three credit hours for medical care against infectious diseases and three credit hours for trying to provide security for America?
Standing out, with complications
This is a bad news-bad news review. First the first bad news: I didn't like it. And the second bad news? The author may never write again.
U.S. economic resilience spells Chinese model's doom
There is a historical truth about the American economy -- it is deep, wide, and resilient. Managed economies, or communism, by contrast, may work for a period of time, due to favorable economic winds. But eventually you have to pay the piper. It's a lesson that China is about to learn the hard way.
Keeping this Mitt off helm of state
Conservatives may laugh at Mitt Romney's oh-so-obvious flirt with mounting a 2020 nomination challenge to President Trump. They shouldn't.
The Steele dossier was planned as Hillary's insurance policy
It's been over a year since the highly damaging text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, were revealed to the American public. The correspondence showed two senior Justice Department officials engaged in the most petty, vitriolic political diatribes while making decisions on the most sensitive investigations of the 2016 political season.
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