Opinion Columns
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We need strong Congress as well as strong presidentJan 19, 2018 12:00 am - Presidents need oversight and scrutiny; they need a Congress that will press them and insist on consultation. They get very little of that pressure today. Because we liv...
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Responses to Trumpism are greatest concernJan 19, 2018 12:00 am - In my youth, our mothers would have compared the problem with American party politics today to the problems of picking a man. Of course, mothers in the 1960s compared EV...
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Charitable, perhaps, but a deeper look at Trump's immigration commentJan 18, 2018 12:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. - While recently perusing unread books gathering dust on my shelves, one tome caught my eye and, upon being loosed from the grip of neglect, fell open to a ...
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Slusher: Politics, profanity and the daily newsJan 18, 2018 12:00 am - Let's be clear. Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to give responsible public media fits trying to figure out how to provide accurate quotations or description...
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Paul Manafort has a point in his case against MuellerJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - It's not a popular thing to defend Paul Manafort, the international influence peddler who ran Donald Trump's presidential campaign for a short time in 2016. Just search ...
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Trump is at war with the central ideal of the RepublicJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes it is necessary to begin with the obvious. The claim that America needs more Norwegian migrants and fewer Africans from "sh-thole countries" is racist. It is n...
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Labels matter but real value of census designations is dataJan 16, 2018 12:00 am - According to conservative thinkers Ward Connerly and Mike Gonzalez, the Census Bureau should stop collecting data about race and ethnicity. Writing in a Washington Post ...
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New behavioral hospital will make a differenceJan 15, 2018 12:00 am - On a Tuesday evening recently, a parishioner called me because she found herself confronted with a family health crisis. Her adult grandson was suicidal and needed immed...
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Steve Bannon has a legitimate pointJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - The fire and fury over Michael Wolff's book has largely centered on the personalities and power struggles within the White House. But behind all of that lies an importan...
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In Trump's White House, it's the survival of the servileJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - White House staffers have two general objectives: to serve the president and to please the president. The two do not always coincide. I can recall, as a policy adviser ...