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I swam in the beautiful bay water three times that day. Salt on skin does wonders. Six of us had a sundown dinner on the roof, with a homemade almond cake a la creme and fruit for dessert, a ferry and lighthouse in the distance. Everyone around the table at the house party was a true-blue ...
The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three ...
To the editor: The juxtaposition of two stories in a recent issue of the paper was noticeable. One story told of Langston Hughes’ experience as a young Black boy in Lawrence, and the other told of the Kansas Legislature’s drive to expunge DEI-CRT from state-funded universities, the focus ...
When workers scraped Donald Trump’s name off the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They should have taken Kennedy’s name off as well and restored the building to its original, simple title, the National Culture Center. After President ...
When I heard President Donald Trump go ballistic over Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, it made me want to hear more about Graham Platner. After Platner won Maine’s Democratic primary, Trump trolled Platner as “thug” and called the Democratic Party hypocritical for ...
Trump again claims victory in Iran. He’s claimed victory before, but now he has a so-called “agreement” with Iran. That agreement, which appears to be no more than a memo of understanding — that is, a set of principles to which Iran and the United States have agreed — stops the ...