https://apnews.com/26414b844f5c4d4eb0e7a9a99f9f70de
Are Trump and Netanyahu using the same consultants?
Background on Fox News
Mr. Smith, a former Fox News host, explains the background of how Fox News does its business. A telling piece and one that even the biggest Fox fans should consider the next time they consider repeating something they heard there.
A voice of reason…from the right no less
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-defenders-have-no-defense-11574382421
For those who can’t access WSJ, I will supply a quote from Peggy Noonan’s opinion.
The Buzz?
There are no letters to the editor in The Pilot today. Instead, we get a brainless “interactive feature” called The Buzz: Winter weather, and all of the entries are from Peninsula subscribers.
Can The Pilot get any worse?
Who won the Democratic Party Debate?
In order, worst to first:
Trump: As the evidence piles up and he and the Republicans keep having to revise their defense, as even their own witnesses testify to their lies, this debate was a breath of fresh air and a marked improvement over the clown show that was the Republican party debates 4 years ago. Continue reading “Who won the Democratic Party Debate?”
Another Democrat enters field
Clarence Page suggests Deval Patrick may be a bridge to draw voters to a moderate ticket.
Continue reading “Another Democrat enters field”
Are our priorities in the right place?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/highest-paid-public-employees-surprised-090007837.html
George Will was in the Pilot today and wrote an opinion about the NCAA, student athletes and fairness. I could not find a Pilot link, but it is also in WAPO.
Continue reading “Are our priorities in the right place?”
No more surprises, please.
A doctor discusses the problem of surprise billing for ER patients.
The sleeping giant has awakened, but not the one the gun lobby thinks.
“I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve,” Philip Van Cleave*, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, wrote in an email to members quoting a Japanese admiral, Isoroku Yamamoto.
Continue reading “The sleeping giant has awakened, but not the one the gun lobby thinks.”
For the anti-choice crowd…
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/sunday/late-term-abortion.
Ms. Werking-Yip tells her heart wrenching story of having to make a choice.
Late term abortions are not about an unwanted pregnancy. They are about choices that parents sometimes have to make.
From her closing paragraph, ” I pray you never have to face a decision like the one I faced. You might swear up and down that you could never make the choice I did, but you never know for sure until the time comes. I know I made the best choice for my child. I do not regret it, and I will not hide it.”
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