Saturday 24 June 2017

Saturday's Opinions: The terrifying and terrible prospect of Justice Kennedy retiring

Why I resigned from the Foreign Service after 27 years; I lost my son to heroin. How many more will we lose before Trump cares?; Making America scared again won't make us safer; Why 'Mattis in charge' is a formula for disaster; Baseball moves way too slowly. Is it time for a pitch clock?; How can you still doubt Trump's intelligence?; Uber and its leadership just learned what it takes to grow up; Bowser and Fenty: Deja vu in the mayor's reelection campaign?; The gross glorification of war — and big business — of reenactments in Virginia; Why does World War I still get second-rate treatment in our capital?; Montgomery County has a lot to lose if Obamacare is repealed; Phoenix heat, Tropical Storm Cindy show how climate change is a threat to our infrastructure; Bill Cosby wants to teach us?; A disturbing broken link in the nuclear weapons chain; Trump makes a smart nomination — but snubs D.C. in the process; What's more interesting — being a wife, or being a World War II code-breaker?; More on Murr – a response to Rick Hills; Translating Genesis; Should regulatory takings doctrine be reconsidered from the ground up?; Happy Hour Roundup; Obama launches a two-front war on President Trump; How Democratic timidity may have helped Trump get elected
 
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Matt McClain / The Washington Post
The terrifying and terrible prospect of Justice Kennedy retiring
Replacing him could make the Bork fight look like a kindergarten squabble.
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Why I resigned from the Foreign Service after 27 years
I couldn't be involved in leaving the Paris agreement. But I hope my former colleagues stay.
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I lost my son to heroin. How many more will we lose before Trump cares?
How is it that we as a nation can give so little attention to a problem of such magnitude?
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Making America scared again won't make us safer
Everyone knows we need criminal-justice reform — except the attorney general.
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Why 'Mattis in charge' is a formula for disaster
I respect the defense secretary, but let's not pretend that his leadership can substitute for the void in the White House.
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Baseball moves way too slowly. Is it time for a pitch clock?
Or, a whimsical proposal: Ban batting gloves.
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How can you still doubt Trump's intelligence?
It takes a certain kind of smarts to spin a yarn so defiantly false that some people will believe it anyway.
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Uber and its leadership just learned what it takes to grow up
Ousted chief executve Travis Kalanick now knows adolescence gets old.
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Bowser and Fenty: Deja vu in the mayor's reelection campaign?
The D.C. mayor's approval ratings are sky high — just like her predecessor's. And the similarities don't stop there.
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The gross glorification of war — and big business — of reenactments in Virginia
They have all the drama but hide the suffering of battle.
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Why does World War I still get second-rate treatment in our capital?
This disgrace helps consign the conflict to the cobwebs of memory.
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Montgomery County has a lot to lose if Obamacare is repealed
The jurisdiction has come a long way in increasing access and reducing costs.
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Phoenix heat, Tropical Storm Cindy show how climate change is a threat to our infrastructure
Any new infrastructure plan must be crafted with climate change in mind.
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Editorial Cartoons
If Trumps says it on TV, does it count as collusion? Queen Elizabeth II rules
We've seen it all already. The British monarch mentions the Spanish royal visit during Wednesday's speech to Parliament but doesn't mention President Trump's upcoming state visit.
 
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Bill Cosby wants to teach us?
The actor and the people enabling him seem not to have learned from his loathsome behavior.
 
A disturbing broken link in the nuclear weapons chain
Safety troubles at a U.S. plutonium laboratory must be addressed.
 
Trump makes a smart nomination — but snubs D.C. in the process
The process to select the U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia was a reminder of how D.C. residents are denied a say in government.
 
 
"Free For All" Letters
What's more interesting — being a wife, or being a World War II code-breaker?
Regarding the obituary for Mary Woods, I was struck by the subheading used to describe her: "Foreign Service wife, librarian" [June 11]. I did not have the opportunity to know Woods, but I do fin...
 
 
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More on Murr – a response to Rick Hills
My response to NYU law Professor Rick Hill's critique of my post about the Supreme Court's dubious Takings Clause decision in Murr v. Wisconsin.
Translating Genesis
Translators and translation theorists love the story of the Tower of Babel.
 
Should regulatory takings doctrine be reconsidered from the ground up?
Justice Clarence Thomas suggests property rights advocates may be looking for love in all the wrong places.
 
Happy Hour Roundup
Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.
 
Obama launches a two-front war on President Trump
The left is concocting a narrative so wildly inconsistent with the facts that only the most gullible Obama apologist would believe this latest version of the truth.
 
How Democratic timidity may have helped Trump get elected
A blockbuster report on Russian efforts to sabotage our election shows Democrats were too paralyzed to respond.
 
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