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Alito Five must stay the course

In February, five Supreme Court Justices voted in camera to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion back to the states, where it resided until 1973.Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett had all signed on to the majority opinion overturning Roe ...

Report on Indian boarding schools is eye-opening, heartbreaking

The horrific mistreatment meted out to Native Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries has been well-chronicled, whether through a long list of broken treaties, forced relocation and even the killing of buffalo as a means of starvation and submission.Perhaps less well-known, however, is the way ...

Election sets field for Pa. abortion war

With Democrats’ last-ditch effort to codify abortion rights into federal law falling short, the question in states like Pennsylvania remains: What will happen in a post-Roe v. Wade world?The answer, for now at least, lies in the governorĢƵ office.After a draft Supreme Court ruling ...

Threat to abortion rights started with Sanders

The demolition of Roe v. Wade began long before now. It started in 2016, when Sen. Bernie Sanders and his left-wing followers destroyed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Had Clinton won the presidency, Donald Trump would not have been able to add three justices to the Supreme Court who have ...

Graduates: Time to paint your Picasso

High school and college graduates: Your parents, grandparents, teachers and other adults have worked tirelessly to mold you. We know it is now time to let you fully develop into the masterpieces we know you can be.ItĢƵ a scary time for us, but we know it has to feel even more uncertain for ...

The lies Republicans tell one another

Campaign themes are frequently fragile things that shatter the moment they encounter reality.I’m thinking of the Eisenhower-Nixon “missile gap” falsely promoted by John Kennedy in 1960. Then there was the matter of a convicted murderer being handed a get out of jail card by Massachusetts ...