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Editorials

Former Ohio judges protest politicization of judicial seats

If one takes a step back and looks at the matter logically, Ohio’s requirement that candidates in state supreme court races bear partisan labels is ridiculous. Add to that the decision that allowed judges to endorse political candidates and the situation is laughable. But three former state ...

Lindsey Graham, your fellow citizen

This week, we mourned the loss of Lindsey Graham, who had represented his state of South Carolina in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and in the Senate from 2003 until he unexpectedly passed away at the age of 71 after a “brief and sudden illness.” And by “we,” I ...

Political views from the heartland

MADISON, Wis. — This is my hometown, where it’s consoling to be in a sane state in high summer. Since Maine Democrats fell for the oysterman hook, line and sinker, they deserve what they get in November. Choosing Graham Platner’s rocky record over a seasoned woman governor, Janet Mills ...

Federal policy takes ‘affordable’ out of the ACA

If it wasn’t obvious before that the famous bill passed to make healthcare more affordable has done anything but, it should be now: Individual plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges are projected to spike by about 14%in 2027, according to recent insurer filings. The ACA imposed a wide ...

Republicans, Democrats must control radicals in their parties

It’s starting to sound like we’re in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. For those of you who forgot, the Spanish Civil War was the great prequel to World War II, in which the combatants were proxies for the Communists and the Fascists. Stalin’s Soviet Union supported the former, ...

Democrats need to take the car keys away from Bernie

The Platner fiasco has unleashed something of a brawl in the Democratic Party over how the sexting candidate with a Nazi tattoo came to be their rival to Susan Collins, now in her fifth term as Republican senator from Maine. Bernie Sanders thought his socialists could pass off blue-collar ...