The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.
To the editor: In his recent column on schools, George, Will claims public education suffers from “administrative bloat,” because a little more than half of employees are teachers. But he fails to acknowledge the many services that schools provide in addition to instruction. They range ...
To the editor: I am opposed to a flat income tax rate in principle, but why are our elected officials quibbling over whether the rate/s should be 5.45%, 5.65% or 5.7%? That much difference doesn’t matter to me. I’m more interested in what the personal exemption might be, but that was left ...
In 1984, at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, a lifelong Democrat stood up to denounce her former party. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who had switched parties to serve as Reagan’s U.N. ambassador, lambasted her former party for always “blaming America first.” Today, it is the ...
The state’s attorney general, Kris Kobach, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to block student loan forgiveness, leading a multistate coalition against the policy. The lawsuit comes on the heels of the 2023 case led by Missouri in which the Supreme Court struck down the ...
To the editor: Several people have told me that I should write this letter. I served in Vietnam as a member of the 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines from early January of 1967 to February of 1968. The 3/3 served a total of 1,600 days in Vietnam and conducted 48 combat operations — more than ...
To the editor: Eugene Robinson’s tour of the Bible (“Trump’s big Bible grift is going to backfire,” Journal-World, March 31) missed a few points of interest. His selected passages and commentary assure readers that abortion “is one issue Jesus never addressed.” Although this is a ...
