After claiming that the Mueller report exonerated him, President Trump changed the subject to announce that the Republicans would be the “healthcare party.” That was
Trump’s Fake Emergency
Syndicated columnist Greg Sargent’s difficulty with the Trump emergency declaration [“Trump’s emergency plunges nation into peril” Feb 17, Opinion] seems misplaced. The worrisome problem he
The Socialist Menace
Cass R Sunstein’s column on Sunday’s (2/10/2019) opinion page of the Seattle Times raises a valid question, but does not go far enough. The question
The Wall
The wall is a really dumb idea. To spend $5.7 billion to put up a wall along the entire 1900+ mile border with Mexico to
Seattle Times’ Incomprehensible Opposition to Carbon Tax Initiatieve
The Seattle Times editorial, “Washington can do better than I-1631” (Opinion page, Sunday, 10/21/18) fires an incomprehensible barrage of contradictory arguments against this carbon tax
Work Requirements for Medicaid
I am all for work requirements for those receiving Medicaid benefits and extended unemployment and other such government benefits as well. But only on certain
Homelessness Crisis
Homelessness is a national disgrace, a humanitarian disaster of national proportions. Yet it has been foisted on to the meager resources of cities and states.
Reasonable & Constitutional Gun Control
The Second Amendment is not absolute, as should be obvious when you consider that the government can prohibit certain weapons without infringing on Second Amendment
Russian Meddling in Our Elections
Russian Meddling in our Elections (NOTE: this article was written substantially in the form below long before — mostly about a year before — the
Racist immigration policy
Why all the animosity, all the unremitting opposition to immigration in Congress and the Administration? Don’t they realize that we are a nation of immigrants.