Opinion

My mother came not to praise Nixon, but to bury him. Some 49 Augusts ago, Richard M.

No one in the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification.

Dear Annie: Let me preface this by saying that I am an animal lover, and I like dogs and cats. I grew up with dogs, but as an adult, I have become more of a cat person. While I enjoy dogs enough, my husband and I have talked about how dog ownership is a lot of responsibility and, at this point in our lives, we choose just to have cats.

America’s political parties are the oldest and third-oldest in the world, and they have competed for votes among a population that has been diverse since colonial times. If you have any doubts about that, consult David Hackett Fischer’s 1989 classic “Albion’s Seed” on how settlers from different parts of the British Isles brought distinctive “folkways” to the different seaboard colonies and the Appalachian backwoods.

Confession: For the past couple of years, I fell into the “Biden shouldn’t run again” camp. Too old. Better not to ask Americans to reelect a man who will be 82 in November of 2024 and ... you know the rest. Nikki Haley summed it up tactlessly in April: “The idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not something that I think is likely.”

Dear Annie: I will try to tell you a short version. I was married twice and had kids with both men. You could say my “picker” for men was or is broken. Anyway, I ended up leaving both men. Both were mentally abusive; one was also physically abusive. I took the kids with me.

The story of Jina Mahsa Amini revealed -- once again -- the brutal, ruthless nature of the Iranian regime. Amini, a 22-year-old woman, traveled last September from her hometown in western Iran to Tehran, making what the United Nations Human Rights Council described as a “family visit.” During this visit, she encountered Iran’s “morality police.” “Iran’s Morality Police,” explains the U.S.

America is the land of plenty, but to many, it’s become a world of envy and anger. Nowadays, malcontents seem to feel more entitled to act out in anti-social ways.

The annual “Good Vibrations” Car & Truck Show and Bicycle Safety is Saturday, August 19th, held at Blinn Park (901 N. Main) in Tonkawa.

Just to compound the other serious mistakes he has made in his life, Hunter Biden made the mistake last week of overplaying his hand. Afforded the opportunity to plead guilty to tax crimes committed while addicted to crack and other drugs, the president’s son held out for a commitment by the Justice Department that it would never prosecute him for anything else. This was a commitment the Department could not and would not make -- and it was a commitment that any practical person mindful of his past misconduct would have known wouldn’t be made.