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Isn’t it remarkable that centers of higher education across these fruited plains are hosting a fifth column of anti-American and aggressively antisemitic thugs with nary a strong peep from the adults on campus (“Columbia shuts down campus after anti-Israel protesters take over Hamilton Hall,” web, April 30)?
“Americans say Biden’s border chaos is an invasion; federal judges say it’s not” (web, April 29) suggests that Texas is not advancing its best argument to support its illegal immigrant law.
The GOP today stands for nothing more than doing former president’s bidding.
To the editor: Columnist Jackie Calmes touches on a key issue — perhaps the key issue — of the 2024 presidential campaign. ("That scowl. The gag order. A frightened juror. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?" April 28) Many of former President Trump's supporters have no interest in his alleged criminal conduct, his policies, his philosophies or even his politics. They simply admire his hyper-macho patois and gangster emulation, and buy into his over-the-top tough-guy swagger. And...
While attending the Utah State Republican Party Nominating Convention, at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City on April 27, I was disappointed by the behavior I witnessed by an estimated 25% of the room of delegates and those watching. I was disheartened by such a large number in our party that booed our current […]
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Friday that a debate between former President Trump and President Biden would be the most significant one in recent decades. “This will be the most important presidential debate, if it happens, since at least the 1980 presidential debate,” Rove said on Fox News to anchor Martha MacCallum. Biden indicated in
To the editor: I am writing to to express my dismay at the "ambitious" housing initiative unveiled by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass in her State of the City address. It boils down to begging for donations from the city's wealthy to purchase apartment buildings to house homeless people. In a city such as Los Angeles, with an incredibly low apartment vacancy rate, this only adds another source of demand that competes with a highly limited supply. If we do not increase the supply of apartments, middle- and...
To the editor: While reading the first paragraph of Mark Z. Barabak's column on the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation's annual award for political courage, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) immediately sprang to mind. Is there anyone in America today who has more openly put her country before her party and shown more personal political courage than Cheney? No. In ignoring her nomination for the award, however, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation's board proved it is just like every...
“[Donald Trump] thinks he’s being persecuted, but he’s simply being held to account for his alleged actions, as every other citizen of this country would be.”
I was reluctant at first to accept this honor of addressing you, very young hi-tech people, given my age.
Already at work on Netflix's first Romanian original, former HBO Europe execs Johnathan Young and Ioanina Pavel have hit the ground running since launching Romanian production company May One in February.