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EDITORIAL: Easier voter registration is better for everyone

The more people vote, the more votes count.It shouldn’t matter what party someone joins. It shouldn’t matter whether someone picks no party at all. Ideally, everyone would cast a ballot. Everyone would have their say.That should be a point on which everyone agrees. But there are no points ...

Where are Republicans when you need them?

Republicans are currently twisting themselves into unseemly knots.They don’t appear to know how to respond to the multi-count felony indictment against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.Menendez is a Democrat. ThatĢƵ usually fertile ground for Republicans to pile on with claims that the entire ...

The ‘terrific panic’ of ‘small men’

Every fall should be a reminder of that far-off day on which the fate of the republic was decided, at least tentatively. I know it is for me. I never fail to recall the bloodshed and horror and hope. To do so this year may be more important than ever – for then, like now, the future appeared ...

OP-ED: Romney’s third-party idea could boomerang

One can sympathize with Mitt Romney for deciding not to run again in Utah for the U.S. Senate. The traditional Republican has found himself isolated in a party where majorities still revere Donald Trump.Romney had apparently discussed the idea of forming a new centrist party with West Virginia ...