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PARKER: Clarence Thomas’ great speech on the Declaration

Many speeches will be delivered this year about the Declaration of Independence as we celebrate its 250th birthday. However, I think the greatest was just delivered by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on April 15 at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. The ...

WSU guest opinion: Enjoying spring while preparing for winter

Spring is usually a tug-of-war between winter and summer. This year, summer effortlessly dragged Old Man Winter over the line. The hum of bees amidst fragrant flowering trees is magic to the senses. Birds sing for mates. Days lengthen and temperatures are perfect. There’s almost too much ...

JOECKS: Could Nevada become a red state?

Nevada has fewer registered Democrats today than in 2016. That's one reason Nevada could be a red state within a decade. Nevada Republicans currently have a voter registration edge of more than 7,000 out of 2 million registered voters. That may not sound like much, but it's their largest ...

The Homefront: What would you do with the man on the curb?

We talk about how no man is an island and we’re all in this together and it takes a village to raise a child and so on. And yet... On a frosty morning, I pull my car out of the garage, drive down the street, turn the corner and stop. A figure sits on the curb. He (his clothing suggests a ...

GARVEY: What has passed is not always what was best

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

BARONE: How Hungary matters

What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people — slightly less in population and area than the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. But it's been the subject of more care, attention and debate in America than any other country in Europe or the Western ...