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Merry Christmas in the age of Trump
By John M. Crisp
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Trump’s national security plan: Iran threat is the sneaker issue for 2018
The militant regime in Iran has quietly established a major land force in Syria, effectively threatening the existence…
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Seven words you can’t say? Just watch me
Maybe it’s because my day job is as an English professor, but I don’t like when words are…
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Pence visits Jerusalem at Christmas, but brings no peace
Pence has canceled his planned visit to the Church of the Nativity (the governor of the Bethlehem told…
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What’s missing from the GOP tax bill?
The tax bill doesn’t expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, part of the tax code that supplements the…
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Trump has jolted us into fresh thought and action
Donald Trump’s first year in office seems to have been marked, above all, by his verbal incontinence.
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County leaders prepared to sue state over unfunded mandates
The Washington State Association of Counties is amassing $400,000 to use for this effort in 2018.
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Time for GOP to take a stand against Bannon
The man is all about offering up toxic candidates that might win primaries with a plurality of votes…
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Sandy Hook police chief: From grief, doing good
The admirable determination of the victims’ families to turn unfathomable tragedy into good must be honored.
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What will it take to put sensible limits on guns?
This bit of sham is the National Rifle Association’s attempt to nationalize concealed carry.
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Democrats ditch accused harassers while GOP does nothing
You can only spin deceitful talking points for so long before truth slams right back at you.
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Trump’s accusers are back — and this time, they’re demanding Congress do something
Maybe, in this moment of #MeToo, they will finally be heard.
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Fed up with Democrats and Republicans? Here’s a third option
Even though Democrats in the state are the ones railing against the agenda of President Trump, they slightly…