Opinion

Time for Truth and Reconciliation on the Russia Collusion Hoax

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What are “the major problems this country faces”? Writing in The Atlantic, New York Times columnist David Brooks leads off his list with “inequality, political polarization, social mistrust” before concluding with the inevitable “climate change.” Today’s “inequality,” he notes, is as “savage” as the inequality in the 1890s.

Why Johnny Might Finally Learn to Read

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If you’re a parent with kids in public school, you are doubtless aware of the roiling controversies about the teaching of critical race theory and about policies governing the participation of trans athletes in sports. Those things are not trivial, but you’re probably not hearing much about a far more consequential matter: how schools are failing to teach kids to read.

Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: I see that you often answer questions pertaining to families trapped in addiction. I grew up in that special hell with all of the complex trauma issues that go along with that lifestyle.
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Capitol Considerations

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Our first major deadline is now in the books as all the bills for session have been officially filed. I ended up filing more than 20 measures, including SJR 11 to allow Oklahoma voters to decide whether the Legislature should have the power to enact or amend statutes relating to sex offenders if such provisions are rationally related to protecting the public from sex-based crimes. This would include such things as sex offender registration requirements, the duration of those requirements, and proximity to areas frequented by vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and mentally disabled. Under this proposed state question, if approved, sex offenders would have to comply with any such enactments or amendments after implemented. Any subsequent changes regulating residence of a sex offender would be applicable when the individual moved.

Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: I have been reading your column in my local newspaper for a long time. Earlier this year, I sent a note to you about losing my wife and how my friends reacted. Never would I have thought that I would be sending you another note. But here I am.

Biden’s Proposal: Increase Debt By 57.8%

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When President Joe Biden sent Congress his budget proposal for fiscal 2023 last March, he tried to sound as if he were a fiscal conservative. “My Budget details the next steps forward on our journey to execute a new economic vision, reduce costs for families, reduce the deficit, and build a better America,” Biden said in the budget message that began his proposal.

Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: I have never been ignorant to the fact that, in my opinion, my parents’ marriage sucks. My dad is and has always been controlling and domineering. And my mom just exists and really believes it is her job to just be submissive. (These are people married since the 1950s.)

Biden’s Mistakes Invite the GOP Circus

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With all the outstanding questions about who packed up then-Vice President Joe Biden’s files in the Obama administration’s final days, who unpacked them and why documents with classified markings were unlawfully removed in the process, one fact is pretty well-established. Biden’s testy response to a reporter’s question about how such documents ended up next to his Corvette (“By the way, my Corvette is in a locked garage. OK? So it’s not like it’s sitting out in the street.”) was God-awful. It may not have matched former President Donald Trump’s idiocy about the COVID-19 pandemic (“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous -- whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light”), but it was bad.