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Editorials | Read ‘em and weep

At least FINALLY, a specific proposal that aims to “fix” what some say is a problem: “government officials and employees engaging in political activity during government-funded travel.” Instead of just “expressing his concern” and talking about it, the CNMI’s most senior legislator, Sen. Paul A. Ma…
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OPINION | Epitaph 124: The GOP gaslighting shows continue

Senator Hocog is RIGHT about “soil is money” but the question is what are the GOP going to do to MAKE our soil valuable.  He is on the right track about expanding our economic base and the possibilities of growing and selling local produce. But his problem is the Party he is working for are too CON…
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OPINION | The revolution comforts the comfortable

The scene in militia-occupied Seattle is entirely familiar, the same kind of theatrical filth that has been a part of American counterculture from Woodstock through Occupy Wall Street. These are the idiot children of the American ruling class, toy radicals and Champagne Bolsheviks playing Jacobin f…
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OPINION | False gods for lost souls

Michael Shellenberger  is determined to solve this problem, and he is singularly well qualified. He understands activists because he has been one himself since high school, when he raised money for the Rainforest Action Network. Early in his adult career, he campaigned to protect redwood trees, pro…
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OPINION | The power of personal agency

Nearly 1,000 predominantly white residents — many on their knees with both hands in the air —  chanted: “I will love my black neighbors the same as my white ones.” These pledges by white allies that black lives matter to them are emerging across the country as the latest expression of performative …
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OPINION | America has a silent black majority

The methods championed most famously by Martin Luther King Jr. culminated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, two of the most consequential laws in U.S. history. By contrast, the Black Power movement that followed eventually imploded, and its most pro…
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OPINION | Epitaph 123: Parting the RED by New Democrats! 

I have literally been praying FOR all the People of the CNMI to one-day read the headlines “Democrats Now Control the Legislature and even the Executive Office.” The Democrats now have a REAL LEGITIMATE opportunity to bring REAL CHANGE for PROGRESS with the help of voters. I have been yelling at th…
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OPINION | How do you like US now?

It’s no coincidence that we’re always told this when a Republican resides in the White House. You must wonder why it is that “the world” (i.e., elite European leaders and media) oscillates in its view of American leadership directly in tune with America’s presidential election outcomes. Since 1980,…
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