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Bringing Richard Nixon back home

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn’t take any of us kids with her and didn’t say where she was going. But she was gone for a couple hours. The day that Richard Nixon finally faced mounting public pressure against him for his Watergate burglary coverup and conduct of the Vietnam War came at great cost to the country. Several Republican senators went to the White House and told him the truth: They would no longer support him, and he had to go or else be forced from office. ...

Why are Muslim American politicians uniformly Democrats?

Muslim Americans are increasingly getting involved in American politics. Most prominent are members of Congress Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.). Most prominent among several mayors is Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, now running for the Senate seat in Michigan, could become the first Muslim in the U.S. Senate. A question that comes to mind is: Why are these Muslim American politicians uniformly Democrats? They generally hold up their Muslim religion as a prominent part of ...

Novel concept: not attempting to fix what is not broken

It is high praise from the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association that the group is asking the state’s next governor — whoever that might be — not to touch the state’s workers’ compensation system or undo reforms that have generated results for employers AND workers. It is not broken. It does not need a politician to fix it. “Ohio’s workers’ compensation system is working, and the next governor should keep it that way,” said OMA President Ryan Augsburger. “Employers are paying the lowest rates in more than 65 years, injured workers are protected, and surplus funds are ...

It’s easy to condemn socialism by finding villains, solutions

Don’t assume socialism’s inevitable failures will stop it from spreading. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced his government-run grocery stores will offer products at a 30% discount. The appeal of this plan is obvious. Everyone would like to pay less for milk, eggs and meat. That this plan won’t work is equally obvious to anyone who understands basic economics. Unfortunately, that excludes many New Yorkers and college graduates. Take a look at the details of Mamdani’s plan. He doesn’t want the city to run these stores. He’s seeking proposals from ...

Trump policies are killing Americans

What is the death count under Donald Trump? We’re not talking about loss of life in his war with Iran. We’re not talking about natural deaths by aging or unpreventable diseases. We mean Americans who die because they refuse safe vaccines that Trump or his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., questions or discourages. A recent occurrence of death and suffering comes from the refusal by many parents to let doctors give their newborns a vitamin K shot. Infants are naturally deficient in vitamin K, which helps prevent blood clots and internal bleeding, which can be horrific. K is a ...

Ohio legislators must fix school busing woes

Though a state workgroup has recommended “comprehensive system change” for public school transportation, there is little agreement about what that change might look like, or how Ohio can accomplish the goal to “ease current system challenges and build the new system foundation.” According to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, one major challenge is the shortage in people willing to be bus drivers. Among the other problems to be solved is transportation for students at private schools, religious schools, career centers and educational service centers. “Family school ...