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Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra portrays fossil fuels as the magic road to lower energy prices. He’s exactly wrong. Solar, wind and other renewable sources are. Renewables already provide electricity to consumers in Europe that’s so cheap, it’s at times free — this ...
Let’s skip ahead to after the election. No matter who wins, the next president will declare that they have a “mandate” to do something. And they will be wrong. The whole canard that a newly elected president is for some reason entitled to have their way is an invention. The word ...
In June 2006, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was asked in Boston what the Democrats’ plan was for dealing with Iran, designated even then by our State Department as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism and well on its way to acquiring nuclear weapons. “I don’t know,” ...
Back in the days when I was a moderate Republican, I still found Liz Cheney too far right-leaning for my tastes. And that went for her dad, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as well. Even today, I may not agree with her on this issue or that, but we’re on the same page on the primal ...
Sometimes amid the hoopla and hogwash of political events, I find myself jerked alert by an accidental truth that manages to break through. Such appeared to be the case when Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, urged Democrats to “tone down their rhetoric,” while not ...
The FBI is investigating the source of suspicious packages sent to election offices in more than 20 states. Some election offices have been evacuated; staff are frightened. Suspicious packages, bomb threats, death threats, harassment, assassination attempts, and violence are consequences of ...