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Schmidt: What are the values you fight and vote for?

June 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns

I would like to ask Republican primary voters: Which of the following lines would you cheer for? What are the values you stand for, which is different from the policies you prefer? Read story

Other Papers Say: Thanks for pulling U.S. off edge

June 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns

default on the nation’s debts and the possibility of a recession — the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy deserve credit for cobbling together a compromise to suspend the nation’s debt ceiling. But the agreement, approved by the House and Senate, shouldn’t have been necessary, and its curbs on… Read story

Skelton: Stricter gun laws save lives

June 9, 2023, 6:01am Columns

Fewer guns plus more gun control add up to less gun carnage. That’s logical. And it’s a fact. California is proof. So is Mississippi. Read story

Camden: Candidates should not whine

June 7, 2023, 6:01am Columns

Campaign season usually starts in earnest after Memorial Day, when candidates get serious about raising money and filling their calendars with speeches, forums and debates, along with days of waving signs on street corners and nights of knocking on doors to meet voters. Read story

Crisp: Why GOP loves welfare work rule

June 6, 2023, 6:01am Columns

Would we really risk the catastrophe of a debt default because we think that some citizens who are receiving food stamps may not be working hard enough? Read story

Granderson: Kids may take brunt of GOP’s disdain for poor

June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns

High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night. Read story

Ambrose: Tim Scott GOP’s shining star

June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns

While touches of decency still hang around, a leftist, holier-than-thou, pseudo-intellectual movement is pummeling America into a conglomeration of inanities and inhumanity. An overriding point of view combines vacuous utopianism and post-modernist relativism junking realism, rationalism and objectivity. Read story

Allen: Anti-Catholic bigotry Pride group focus

June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when our national obsession with drag queens began. Sometime after they started appearing in libraries for children’s story hours but before Target began selling “tuck-friendly” bathing suits would be my guess. Read story

Other Papers Say: Church, state a dangerous mix

June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns

When the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in effect, that a Bremerton High School football coach who led his team in Christian prayer at the end of games had a First Amendment right to use the public school system to promote his religion, critics warned that this was a… Read story

Donnelly: Follow the latest science on cannabis policy

June 3, 2023, 6:03am Columns

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has now linked cannabis use with schizophrenia, an illness with life-changing implications for individuals and cost impacts for communities. Studies in other countries have analyzed this link for years, but in the U.S. policymakers downplay its risks. Read story