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Ask Dr. E: How one reader struggles to reconcile love vs. legislation in LGBTQIA+ debate
Higher Ground is there for you if you're seeking guidance in today's changing world. Everett Piper, a Ph.D. and a former university president and radio host, is writing an advice column for The Times, and he wants to hear from you. If you have any moral or ethical questions for which you'd like an answer, please email askeverett@washingtontimes.com, and he may include it in the column.
Jim Brown, on and off the field, personified pure power
The power Brown exhibited carrying the ball -- the raw, imposing physical presence -- carried over to the rest of his life. But after dominating on the field, he turned to flexing his muscles in other fields, including film, business and politics.
Activists creative fears about nontoxic plastics stretch small facts into big fantasies
Since the dawning of America's access to online opinion, the universe of activists continues leapfrogging each other with Chicken Little predictions and funding appeals.
Understanding why Taiwan is a key U.S. ally
China may be on the verge of invading Taiwan.
If Biden demolishes Title IX, Kansas will sue faster than a man can run
Radicals in the Biden administration have declared war on reality.
Big-buck donors bailing on Trump, backing DeSantis for 2024
Former President Donald Trump is a billionaire. His net worth is north of $2 billion, Forbes reported earlier this year. But that's not enough to run for president anymore -- not even if you empty every account, sell everything.
America can't afford Washington's $8.8 billion Union Station boondoggle
The Federal Railroad Administration has released a massive draft environmental impact statement for a planned $8.8 billion expansion of Washington's Union Station.
America has become a 'vast wasteland' of sex and violence
Do you know that this country was once derided as being the most prudish of all the major countries on Earth, even more prudish than the U.K.! For decades, we were laughed at for our prudish ways.
Don't panic about China's or America's falling birthrates
China shocked the world earlier this year with news its population fell in 2022, For the first time since the Maoist famines, deaths outnumbered births and the headcount slipped by 850,000 to a mere 1.41 billion.
Terrorist cells proliferate in Afghanistan
The bleak situation in Afghanistan is worsening as each day passes.
Handicapping Trump versus DeSantis faceoff
The Great Never Trump Hope is finally throwing his boxing gloves into the 2024 presidential ring. Here's how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will try to knock out the greatest counterpuncher in American politics.
Biden's green growth threatens electric grid reliability
Leadership requires able management of momentous issues, and President Biden is clearly laser-focused on the nation's energy future.
Gorsuch: Coronavirus policies 'the greatest intrusions on civil liberties' in peacetime
In a Supreme Court decision last week, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch offered a scathing rebuke to how the U.S. handled COVID-19 both legally and policy-wise.
Biden, Yellen should stop scaring public
President Biden, Treasury Secretary Yellen and the Democrats confuse and frighten the public by saying that not paying authorized government expenses in full would be a "default" if the debt ceiling isn't raised to cover these expenses.
Reduce debt, spending now
The news media is currently fixated on the debt ceiling.
Gorsuch is right
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently decried the way the U.S. responded to COVID-19, "warning that Americans were all too eager to give up their freedoms on the say-so of a few chief executives" (web, May 18).
God looms large as 2024 election factor
Voters who wear their faith on their sleeves are looking for the next president to set religious freedom as a priority -- and they don't mind the next commander-in-chief being open about belief in God, either. Move over, Bill Clinton; today's phrase is now 'it's the religious freedom, stupid.'
Busted 'border' is where Biden's normalcy goes to die
Joe Biden became president largely by promising to Make America Normal Again.
Three untruths from the political class, including the media
Take a look at the nearest food package. Notice there is a list of ingredients that tells you how many calories and other useful information.
More people voting won't bring progressive utopia
Progressives believe that the more people that vote, the more progressives will win. Republicans even buy into this trope occasionally.
