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Baseball’s pitch clocks

There are but a few things that gain unanimous approval in America these days.Several of those brand-new Major League Baseball changes seem to be very close to getting across-the-board raves.(When I write “across-the-board raves,” I’m saying I haven’t seen anybody claim they honestly ...

The problem of men in black robes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...

Child labor laws shouldn’t be loosened

As a society, we’ve largely agreed that before adolescents reach legal adulthood they should mostly be devoting themselves to education and training and learning to be responsible citizens.Sure, thereĢƵ nothing wrong with having a part-time or weekend job to earn some spending money, learn ...

OP-ED: Free speech needs muscle

Officials at Stanford University could learn something from the New York City Police Department about defending free speech while maintaining order. When hecklers prevented an invited speaker from addressing an audience at StanfordĢƵ law school, what could have been a peaceful protest turned ...

OP-ED: Politics then and now

From the beginning politics has always been a contact sport with competing interests attempting to achieve power over each other. A friend recently said to me he has never seen it so bad as it is today.The friend appears to be in his 50s, so he missed the divisions caused by the Vietnam War, ...