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Public lands are priceless: Stop the Roadless Rule Repeal
To the Editor: While spending recent would-be beautiful Northwoods weeks indoors because of Canadian wildfire smoke, I have been thinking about Representative Tom Tiffany’s letter to Canada’s US ambassador.
Infrequently asked questions: Amid misery in Gaza, some things don’t compute — Part 2
On CNN last week, analyst Scott Jennings asked Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, like many a critic of Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, if Rogin had an alternative to militarily removing Hamas from power in Gaza. Rogin’s recommendation: “You can steer (Hamas) toward better governance, but …
Smoke and smokescreens: Tiffany’s climate stance under fire by reader
To the Editor: On this very smoky day, I’m wondering (indoors) if Congressman Tiffany has read — all of it — “Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report - Summary for Policymakers” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
What Democrats must absolutely do
The Democratic Party’s low approval ratings have sent a stern message to its members. But what is it? Is it a failure to loudly fight an unpopular president on every matter? Is it anger over the party’s previous obsession with boutique causes — transgender rights, for instance — while downplaying …
Blame Canada?: smoke and mirrors
To the Editor: I was embarrassed to read the letter of Representative Tom Tiffany and others to the Canadian Ambassador to the United States, scolding Canada for allowing wildfire smoke to enter our country. Tiffany and company claim that Canada has failed to use good forest management and firefighting technology.
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Infrequently asked questions: amid misery in Gaza, some things don’t compute — Part 1
That Gazans subsist in misery is indisputable, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent decision to dispute it is incomprehensible. It’s dishonest, and it undermines Israel’s government’s credibility. Those who maintain that Israel, despite the impossible position in which Hamas’ genocidal invasion has put it, must nevertheless do all it reasonably can to …
Tortured by bureaucrats
Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer. We license drivers. We license dogs. But most government licensing is useless. Or harmful.
There won’t be nannies
When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. “But if I could afford nannies, I’d like to have four.” Musk reportedly replied: “That’s the difference between you and me. I just assume that there will …
News for the ‘downwardly mobile elite’: you’re still elite
A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban “downwardly mobile elite.”
Gabbard jabber: our (gulp!) head of national intelligence just says anything
Early on in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Yente the Matchmaker tries to sell a villager on Rachel, the shoemaker’s daughter, as a suitable wife for his son. “Rachel?” the man responds incredulously. “But she can hardly see! She’s almost blind!”
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An open letter to Senator Johnson
To the Editor: I am very disappointed that HR1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will not reduce the deficit. HRI increased the federal debt limit by $5 trillion dollars; congress knows the deficit will increase under this bill!
Bobby Jr. would make Thomas Paine cry
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession “a degradation and lessening of ourselves” and “an imposition on posterity.”
War on capitalism
Capitalism gets a lot of hate. I expect it from the left. They blame free markets for racism, “horrifying inequality” and even, according to Economist Joseph Stiglitz, “accelerating climate change.”
River News: Our View
Just when you think everything is all clear, that the Democrats have gone so far round the bend that even the bend is shaking its head, just when you start to think that maybe the future is not so dark after all, that’s when you remember to turn your head …
Can American democracy rebuild after Trump?
There are a lot of things Donald Trump does not like. Find a common theme, and one may conclude that Trump doesn’t like America. This thought is not original to me. Democratic strategist James Carville offers it as his theory of why Trump wreaks so much damage on this country.
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