Editorials

Variations | Any minute now

But telling the government — any government anywhere — not to overspend, to paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke, is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy, and then telling him not to drink and drive.  Graduate School USA’s latest foray into the quagmire that is the CNMI government’s finances produ…
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OPINION | The education of Jerry Falwell Jr.

No doubt this explains why we’re not reading stories about how the president of Liberty University kept his Lynchburg, Va., campus open while keeping his community safe from Covid-19. The doomsday predicted when Mr. Falwell announced Liberty students would return after spring break never came to pa…
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Editorials | ‘Nothing’ action/Crossfire

‘Nothing’ action REMEMBER the four-day online Fiscal Response Summit? It was held a few weeks ago. Yes, that long ago.  Its aim was “to address the size and urgency of the current crisis,” and to “achieve consensus on a fiscal response package,” including cost-cutting measures and tax/fee hikes. Th…
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OPINION | Going nowhere

From not being able to go out to socialize, go grocery shopping, and even going into work has proven difficult for the most of us. Being immobilized because of a looming virus omnipresence is tough. Wanting to be out there, but having to stay home because it is “safer” for us is a difficult concept…
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OPINION | Should Florida bail out New York?

Both men were first elected governor in 2010, so let’s do the math to consider which state has managed its economy and finances better over the last decade. In 2010 New York’s population of 19.378 million was larger than Florida’s 18.8 million. By mid-2019 Florida had grown to 21.48 million, accord…
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OPINION | The Flynn unmaskers unmasked

The names of private U.S. citizens caught on tape by U.S. intelligence are supposed to be “masked” so their privacy is protected. Well, now we know. GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson on Wednesday last week released a declassified list of Obama administration officials who in their waning day…
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OPINION | Hulu’s stylish hatchet job on Phyllis Schlafly

It’s a good line, one the sublime actress Cate Blanchett repeats in “Mrs. America,” the FX on Hulu miniseries in which she portrays Schlafly. Nearly a half-century later, it’s hard to dispute its essential truth. During the 1970s and ’80s, when Schlafly led an improbable grassroots campaign of hous…
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