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Editorials and columns

Thoughts and Prayers and Strawmen

As I’m writing this, we’re reeling from yet more repulsive, evil violence, perpetrated with both guns and knives. I don't know who started the saying "thoughts and prayers," but I never use it. It seems to be grasping for something that is secular yet somewhat meaningful without being too ...

Solving hunger is possible

Is he name Abraham Maslow familiar to you? He was an influential psychologist who came up with a theory of how humans can reach their full potentials. His article titled “A Theory of Human Motivation” appeared in a 1943 edition of “Psychological Review.” In it, Maslow describes an ...

Gov. Hochul’s cowardice is revealed

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just revealed the depths of her political cowardice and lack of care for her constituents. As the governor of a state with a city characterized by the most contentious and internationally recognized mayoral race in the United States, she appeared pressured to make ...

Teetering on the edge of the abyss

It has been a week since young conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down at a rally on the campus of Utah Valley University in front of his wife and hundreds of attendees. In the days since, a suspect — 22-year-old Tyler Robinson — allegedly confessed to his father that he ...

Capitalism v. Mamdani: The battle ahead

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he's moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out ...

Another tax revolt may be right around the corner

Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future rate ...