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Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks to witnesses during a committee hearing on foreign influence operations and their use of social media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. As alarms blare about Russian interference in U.S. elections, the Trump administration is facing criticism that it has no clear national strategy to protect the country during the upcoming midterms and beyond. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: Driving Miss Dianne Feinstein

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, was once chairman of the committee and might be again if the Republicans blow the midterms. Her driver would have been, not a fly on the wall, but a fly on the steering wheel.

August 16, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Brennan not being muzzled

Our Democratic political leaders, including our own Sen. Mark Warner and former Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as many in the press, who rail against President Trump for "penalizing" and taking away the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan free speech are being disingenuous to the American public ("John Brennan on Trump: 'Claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash,'" Web, Aug. 16).

August 16, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Brennan a traitor

As the maintream media questions President Trump's decision to pull former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance, I question how a Communist and suspected Muslim convert was confirmed to the most secret job in the country ("Brennan first to fall as Trump kicks off review of Obama officials' access," Web, Aug. 15).

August 16, 2018
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a reporter during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, in Washington. Sanders took questions about former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault and other topics. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EDITORIAL: The press is not the enemy of the people, but it embraces its own sins

The gathering of the pitchforks on behalf of the ladies and gentlemen of the press is really about sticking it to Donald Trump. Sometimes, often in fact, the press, like the president, deserves a poke with one of those pitchforks. The president of the United States calls us, with his usual excess of noisy exaggeration, "the enemy of the people."

August 15, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Omarosa stories not news

As someone who studies rhetoric and the potential of messages to persuade, I am convinced that all the talk and media hype about Omarosa Manigault Newman and whether President Trump used the N-word won't change people's minds. Like so many other recent stories, this one is a distraction, deflecting attention from more important issues. Whether they will admit it or not, most Americans probably believe Mr. Trump has indeed used such derogatory and racist language. Moreover, those who are troubled by this already are strongly anti-Trump and those who aren't will not relinquish their support of the president.

August 15, 2018
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wade past a waterlogged path leading to the Jamtoli refugee camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh. Myanmar on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, sharply rejected an attempt by the International Criminal Court to consider the country's culpability for activities that caused about 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh for safety. The office of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's leader, said in a statement posted online that the court in the Netherlands has no jurisdiction over Myanmar because it is not a member state. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

EDITORIAL: U.S. must call out generals for crimes in Myanmar

Only a year ago the military junta began a sustained assault on the people of Myanmar's Rohingya district. Over a period of three months, the generals engaged in a campaign of rape, murder and fire, slaying in cold blood thousands of innocents, and burning more than 300 villages, determined to drive out the Muslims who had lived there for centuries.

August 14, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No military weapons on streets

The controversy surrounding President Trump's military parade brings attention to the real and symbolic dangers of deploying military hardware, including combat weapons, military helicopters and heavy tracked vehicles, in American cities. However, these types of equipment are already being used by law enforcement agencies all over the country, often with little accountability or oversight.

August 14, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Every life matters

A recent picture of this week's Lafayette Park rally appeared to be mostly young misled people accusing President Trump of being a fascist and bigot, while holding signs that read: "No place for Facism," "No hate, no KKK and no Nazis in the USA." I, despite being one of their so-called "deplorables," am certainly with them in terms of being against the above-mentioned hate groups. However, another sign on the far left of the photo caught my eye. It read: "Your grandkid will be multi-racial." So, what's wrong with that? Is it mixed religions the sign-holder has trouble with, or the fact that future children might not have blond hair and blue eyes?

August 14, 2018
A structure and vehicles burn in the wake of the Oak Fire Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, near Grass Valley, Calif. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)

EDITORIAL: An environment to die for

Gold doesn't tarnish, but the Golden State lies blackened. It happens almost every year, but California's current bout of fast-burning wildfires, following last year's conflagrations, leads inevitably to a sobering thought: If communities built amid the picturesque West Coast wildlands can't be protected from rampaging flames when spring flowers and grasses turn tinder-dry in summer, maybe they shouldn't have been built there in the first place.

August 13, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Boot bad workers

Omarosa Manigault Newman is yet another example of someone who got caught abusing a government position and instead of admitting culpability and taking the consequences like a grown-up has decided to show the world she's a national security risk.

August 13, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence, center, is greeted by Deputy Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan, left, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis before speaking at an event on the creation of a United States Space Force, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Back to the moon, and beyond

Judging from the reaction to Vice President Mike Pence's announcement last week that the administration wants to establish a U.S. Space Force, the public doesn't seem to care much about the great beyond, and certainly not an American dominance of it.

August 12, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Media aren’t doing their job

Is the press the enemy of the people? Well, we see hourly and daily that 90 percent of the mainstream press is the sworn enemy of President Trump, his administration and of their accomplishments.

August 12, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Goodell unfit for job

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hasn't got anything right on any subject, with any player, on any team ("Roger Goodell gets one right," Web, May 24). Everything he touches turns into an extended, drama-filled catastrophe.

August 12, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop rewarding the mob

As a white man, I have grown weary of charges of toxic masculinity and worse. As a lifelong registered Democrat I am pained to write that the toxicity and harassment (with the possible exception of the commander-in-chief) appears to come from Democrats. ("UGA dean apologizes to Twitter mob congratulating GOP nominee Brian Kemp," Web, July 30).

August 9, 2018
National security adviser John Bolton speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Washington. The White House says President Donald Trump has directed a "vast, government-wide effort" to protect American elections after Russian attempts to interfere in 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Hiccups en route to peace

The path to de-nuclearizing North Korea hasn't even begun, and the early optimism of President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has given way to a starkly different reality of stalled progress and back and forth barbs in the diplomatic backwash of reality.

August 9, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No citizenship for law breakers

The lie that the federal judiciary is legislating constitutionally from the bench was exposed last Friday, when U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates ruled that the government must restart the DACA program ("Federal judge orders Trump admin to restart DACA program," Web, Aug. 3

August 8, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Freebies would cost us dearly

Democrats have become unhinged with this mindset of free college tuition and health care for all, as they embrace the nonsensical philosophy of this socialist from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on upper-middle class, 'soccer moms': 'That's not America anymore!'" Web, Aug. 8).

August 8, 2018