Cal Thomas: The state is not God
Anyone looking for another reason not to leave life-and-death issues to the state need look no further than the conflict between the British government...
George Will: Fixing the ‘rotting carcass’ tax code
WASHINGTON — Cynics are said to be people who are prematurely disappointed about the future. Such dyspepsia is encouraged by watching Republicans struggle to...
Chris Erskine: Mother Ocean leaves me sunny
Dear beach friends,Great trip. Trust everybody got home OK. It was a long and challenging drive, particularly with sunburned legs against leather seats. Till...
John M. Crisp: George Washington vs. Donald Trump
Americans are fond of rankings. We even rank our presidents. An internet search reveals dozens of presidential rankings by historians and news organizations. The...
Carl Leubsdorf: Trump is giving political inexperience a bad name
One of Barack Obama’s principal arguments in seeking the presidency was that his stance as an outsider uninvolved in past Washington battles would enable...
Christine M. Flowers: Don’t paint all Trump backers as idiots and fools
It is apparently de rigeur to make fun of President Donald Trump supporters these days. It is not enough to go after the Great...
George Will: A measure to rein in Medicaid’s ‘mission gallop’
WASHINGTON — Were it not for the provision that Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, put into the Senate’s proposed health care reform, this legislation...
Opinion: Missile Blocking the Dear Leader
The North Korean Dearest Leader — or whatever they’re calling the new one — can’t lob a nuke onto the U.S. mainland.Yet.But he can...
Setting the record straight on union membership
Recently a guest columnist, Luke Ladan, with the Center for Union Facts, submitted an article, published in The Lima News.Iit appears that the author...
Opinion: Say ‘no’ to FirstEnergy nuclear subsidy
FirstEnergy claims that Ohio’s economy is threatened by the loss of nuclear power plants. That claim turns economic reality on its head and is...
