Americans embarking on the annual task of sifting through the health plans offered by their employers to find the one that gives them the most bang for their buck are facing a new reality: man…
Washington ignores a looming fiscal emergency
November 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
In its final report of the fiscal year, the U.S. Treasury Department delivered some unfortunate news. The government spent a little over $7 trillion in 2025 and raised just $5.2 trillion in ta…
Why Trump can do no wrong
November 3, 2025 | 7 MIN READ
I will never forget the moment when I realized that President Donald Trump had transformed the way we think about political scandals.
On free speech, hypocrisy now rules
November 3, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
Free speech for me, not for thee.
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Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, speculation has swirled that he would try for a third term in 2028.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently announced plans to expand the national stockpile of minerals such as lithium and rare earths needed in the production of renewable energy technologies…
NBA scandal was predictable
November 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
Everyone saw this coming except the NBA. It seemed obvious to us: An industry built on winning money instead of earning it will attract those willing to break the rules to make a buck.
This shutdown is about to get real for SNAP recipients
November 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
To most of us who aren’t federal employees, the government shutdown has, so far, been a distant partisan spat with limited direct impact on real life. That will change this weekend when,…
The world has again failed to prevent atrocities in Darfur
November 1, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
Accounts are emerging of mass atrocities being committed in a major city in the Darfur region of Sudan. But in contrast with the global outrage two decades ago about genocide in Darfur, there…
The threat of nuclear war never went away
October 31, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.”
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As the government shutdown drags on, the widespread destruction of the country under Donald Trump and the Republicans who control all three branches of the federal bureaucracy is coming into f…
The empty promises of Trump’s imperial presidency
October 30, 2025 | 7 MIN READ
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Curbing gun violence takes more than just gun laws
October 30, 2025 | 3 MIN READ
Every morning as I bring my daughter to school, I worry for her safety. Like many parents, I would do anything to protect her. Yet the fact is that gun violence in the United States is not an…
The great Trump-Putin breakup and why it matters
October 29, 2025 | 3 MIN READ
Donald Trump appears to have finally fallen out of love with Vladimir Putin, which is good news, long time coming.
American ‘state capitalism’ is destined for failure
October 29, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
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I am the retired news director of Pacific Radio Group stations on the Island of Hawaii. I am a retired Lt. Col., USAF Reserve. I am a FCC-licensed Amateur Radio Operator, holding the Amateur Extra Class License. I am a substitute teacher for the state of Hawaii Department of Education.
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