Is anyone besides me reminded of junior high school and its absurd cliques?  All nine individuals on the board were elected to bring their energy, insight and judgment to bear for the betterment of the Hawaiian people.  Instead, eight trustees meet behind closed doors (just as they did to deal with still-secret allegations of Mr Apo's alleged misconduct) to hash out what to do about still-secret allegations against Ms Akana, this apparently at the insistence of Mr Crabbe, whom a majority of the trustees wish to terminate!  Meanwhile, Ms Akana buttonholes an unhappy beneficiary in a hallway to dismiss the beneficiary's concerns.  Perfect.  Please, trustees, take deep breaths, and step away from the personal.  Remember what you were elected to do.  Nobody sent you to the OHA to trash your fellow trustees.  You were sent to bring your wisdom to bear with that of the other elected trustees in order to make Hawaii a better place.  Are you doing that?


Please see bottom of story. I can ask Jennifer for a further explainer if you'd like.

Thanks, Darcy Keith, Investment Editor


The cost of insurance is based on the cost of the healthcare itself. I don't hear single individual talking about how to reduce the amount being charged by the hospital, doctor and other health care providers. I wrote about one of my experiences where I was in the hospital for two days far precautionary reasons and in those two in addition to my doctor and nurse I was visited five by other doctors or specialist. Their visits amounted to, saying Hi, looking at my chart, asking how I felt and saying good-by. Those visits cost between $350 to $500 each. Two days, five visits and roughly $1,750 just for these doctors. Should we be blaming the insurance company for having to pay for these visit or those doctors, because in my opinion it was just nonsense.


A very old Ahtna trail ran along the Klutina River and a segment of it eventually became Klutina Lake Road. Ahtna people, like the other Native people in Alaska, negotiated with the fed govt to confirm their claims  to lands they had possessed for thousands of years, in return for giving up claim to other of their lands to the State of Alaska and other entities. Under the resulting ANCSA legislation Ahtna made their land selections (including Klutina Lake and surrounds), pared down from a very much larger original ancient known and documented land base. To characterize it as "Ahtna selected those lands after the road existed" misrepresents the situation. As others point out, access to the lake wouldn't be blocked; only unauthorized use of surrounding Ahtna land.


Entrapment or not Mohamed's intentions were clear, he wanted to murder innocent people and families.  You either want to murder people or you don't, someone who does not want to be a terrorist and kill innocent people would not fall into entrapment.  In my opinion Mohamed is missing a chromosome, he flirted with the idea of becoming a jihad before this so-called entrapment, obviously the idea of being with Allah was far more appealing than living free in the greatest Country on Earth. Put him in the slammer, put him in the ground or ship him back to Somalia.


Making change solely for the sake of change is gambling with an unknown risk.  I don't know about you but I'm not one willing to risk the next generation of children's education on, what is at best, an unknown risk.
Given that education is studied and tested and practiced and refined lends credence to a belief that we have the system we have not because there is a problem with the approach but with external factors outside the control or influence of schools.  For example changing family dynamics (millenials are becoming parents and have a known issue with instant gratification and self-entitlement), a historic problem with nigh parental abandonment (except when their child may be anything less than perfect THEN parents get involved) or unstable eating arrangements (breakfast is the most important meal of the day).  There are many considerations that indicate Devos's approach will not be sufficient if not counter-productive.


Bob,

Voters forgot that Trump was a pussygrabber in 3 weeks. I submit to you that voters wont even remember the name DeVos when Murkowski is up for reelection in 2022.


You are right of course but events that last a nano second are easily forgotten especially as she never sat in Parliament as Prime Minister,


Let me get this straight, the "City Bureaucrats" can write a report to council on the 2026 Olympics but Council will not have a plebiscite on the issue for the upcoming election with excuses such as:
City Councillors are paid to make the tough decisions
The issue is to complex for the taxpayer
The city needs to get additional info from IOC.  (true but a delay tactic)
The plebiscite could have had several choices.
- NO
- YES
- YES if the City's Financial Exposure is less than $x million.
.
Oh well, all the while this council has had more in camera meetings than any other administration.


Yes..we really elected Obama. With both the popular vote and electoral vote..twice. All class..all respect..no scandals.


* Do not read the comments section of The Register Guard, or Yahoo News, or Facebook, etc.! lol


Also the attack yesterday on the German football team Borussia Dortmund - another Islamist attack.


"The GOP don't want"?

I thought you were a Duck U graduate?

Is English your native tongue?


I agree! Its time we knock those pesky Rocky Mountains down.
Hopefully we can be as safe and flat as Kansas soon...


It would be very difficult to use the ACA to create Medicare-for-all because the ACA relies on private insurance companies.  The ACA was a step toward universal health care.  Medicare-for-all is the next step.


Have a look around at manufacturing in Canada today and you'll note two things about jobs: many moved to countries with lower labour costs and many were replaced by robotics and technology. Is that enough proof for you?


PERS isn't a union-only benefit, so blaming unions is wrong-headed here. The majority of these payees were probably not in union ranks, which is why they were able to negotiate such high salaries for themselves and end up with commensurately high retirement benefits. I'm a teacher, and believe me, if there is anything at all left for us non-Tier One workers when we hit retirement age, it won't be anything for private sector workers to feel envious about.


At any given time 10% of businesses are in a financially precarious position.   Significantly raising any significant cost will push them into bankruptcy.  This eliminates ALL their jobs not just the ones on minimum wage.

Governments can't create a fairy tale economy just because they think it makes good politics.


What is your title at the Globe ad Mail, Darcy?


Too much of a good thing is still too much.
Too 'sciency' for you?


The only parking problem this place will have is which  assembly  member will get Front roll first.


People who actually make documentaries have long warned of the conditions that led to this mess, and others...
http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/an-open-letter-to-melanie-joly-canadian-documentary


Very sad because not standing up for children whose parents are being deported would seem to contradict the pro-life point of view. Time for the bishops who supported Trump because he was pro-life to stand up for their fellow Catholics - children and families - and against the Administration's very cruel executive orders.


I thought 12 year olds were "pre-teens" not children.  The 12 year old won't like being classified as a child. It might damage his/her pride.


You mean Trump's "supposed" opposition to abortion. The moral issues Trump presented included adultery, racism, homophobia, misogyny -- none of which seem to bother you. They do bother actual Christians.


So Exxon ceo Rex Tillerson lost interest in Alaska gas when he inked a deal to develop Russian gas.  now he's Sec. State and visits Putin next week to talk.  While the china president talks turkey with Gov Walker about gas.  would the Congress or some other federal stooge have to approve of a China-Alaska joint gas-line effort?


The youth already know. They bear the brunt of alcohol - domestic violence, sexual assault, hunger, poverty, neglect. There are a plethora of proactive programs. What the youth need is for their village leaders to get sober, stay sober and then do whatever it takes (popular or not) to get other adults clean and sober. Do that and you will have healthy communities and young people with hope.


Ummmm no.  The EO was perfectly legal and constitutional.  If she had an issue, then you do the honourable thing and resign.


There is a large faction of the GOP who are gleefully hoping for a President Pence.


This is what happens when you’re tolerant of the intolerant. The bullies are emboldened and grow strong until we start self censoring as evidenced in this article with, “Border-adjustment tax ... a sweeping tax overhaul proposed by the GOP, and wouldn’t be an import tax as we think of it ...”
Now, I thought that plain speech was valued by both Partisan Camps, so I checked the standard definitions.
Border-adjustment tax
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/border-adjustment-tax.asp
“goods that are imported are subject to the tax”
Import tax
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/border-tax
“a tax system for imports”
It looks like the battle has been lost without a shot fired.


How about a campaign to discourage giving money to legislators from lobbyists?


My favourite anecdote of the "back pack-Canadian flag myth" is how 30% of Canadian travellers in Europe ate completely and utterly embarrassed to wear a Canadian flag. I remember running into a group of people wearing an expos cap. I asked if they were from Canada. They looked deeply offended as if I'd sworn at them. They replied in utter denial dismissively replying "don't offend us we're from Quebec NOT Canada "


Obviously YOU were asleep when the truth was lain before the American Public.. Did you not notice that not even ONCE did ANY Dem step forward and say that the disclosed emails were NOT FACT! NOT ONCE! All they did was fire people, move them around and make sad excuses... You missed that huh?? And you wonder why America is the way it is today - 8 years of Obama added to the problems.. Perhaps your should open your mind and accept the REALITY that Democrats are one TINY step above the criminal element in America!


If the media had had its way, Donald Trump wouldn't have been invited to a single deabate....until they discovered the difference in their ratings when he was there and when he wasn't.  OLive is just trying to game the system; nothing to see here, just move along.  Business as usual.  We know best which candidates "clearly stand out from the crowd".


Like the bill that passed the House in May, the Senate measure would cut off expanded Medicaid funding for states — but at a more gradual rate, by phasing out the higher federal spending between 2020 and 2024. But it would enact deeper long-term cuts to the program, which provides health-care coverage for 74 million Americans.

Rick Pollack, president and chief executive of the American Hospital Association, said in a statement that the plan “moves in the opposite direction” in terms of providing health coverage and that “Medicaid cuts of this magnitude are unsustainable and will increase costs to individuals with private insurance.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-gop-leaders-set-to-unveil-health-care-bill/2017/06/22/56dbe35c-5734-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.8a61ffcdd651

It's insane to complain about the national debt and give the rich almost a 1 T tax cut. The rich are fine, They don't need a tax cut. Talking in percentages is very misleading.


I am a shareholder.  If people are not interested in department stores, what do you do?  You can't live in the glorious past.


Cheap buggahs!!!  Das it why UHM is a steppingstone, and will never, ever be considered a dream job. I wouldn't blame anybody for leaving to pursue better opportunities.

This is embarrassing for the athletic department, the university as a whole.


Khadr was essentially handed over to this situation by his dear papa


About 6 months late, but hey - better late than never.

And now back to the CBC....


Awww...Ai-je mal vos petits sentiments?


The Big Island has a lot of head on type accidents.  Not sure why this is the case but it has been
very common over many years whether on the Hamakua highway or the Saddle Road.
I still remember seeing a very, very close call on the Hamakua highway near Honokaa, some
years ago when I was still in high school.  The driver of one vehicle was a woman and I vividly remember
seeing her seemingly frozen at the wheel, eyes wide open seemingly not knowing what to do at
the approaching vehicle coming toward her head on.  Had the cars collided at the speed they were
traveling, it would have been fatal for both drivers.


It's on YouTube


more insanity from our legislature in Juneau! Seriously don't they have anything better to do with their time?


When a guy is seen with at least two heavy weapons and wearing body armour and camouflage, it is a situation for a SWAT team. Somebody phoned the Mounties telling them exactly what Bourque was carrying. This was a failure in command at the Moncton RCMP, not a shortage of carbines.


A hell of a lot more than some phony doctor who can't control his lying.


The DA has a delicate balancing act to do. Show enough outrage at Helen Zille to appease its black voters and potential new voters leaking from the ANC, but not too much so as to alienate its white voters and yes, its donors. Like any business, the DA has to look after its good paying customers first, sometimes at the expense of new customers who may not be that lucrative yet. This is Reality 101 and Mmusi is doing as good a job as can be done in the circumstances.


While we're at it we should send Little Trudeau and Wynne down to the US.  West coasters may also add Christy Clark to the list.


I took his Hitler comment as rhetorical.


Now you're blaming Caldwell for a consent decree that was given in 2010 (Carlisle was Mayor) - For sewage problems that went on for decades prior?  It's just laughable to talk to you all at this point.

Who is lex?  Is this another conspiracy theory of yours?  My name is Aiko, and I'm a teacher and community advocate.


Well its America, so we always have to blame someone...


Make the Globe and Mail columnists take the same test.


You cannot tell me Coghill didn't know what was going on in Juneau back then. EVERYBODY knew! Even I knew and I wasn't into politics at that time. The Anchorage Times made no bones about it. It was a even joked about!


Send him home.


Lewis is right.  Clinton was sabotaged by Comey and Russian hacking.  She was ahead until all of that.  Trump's successful use of dog whistle politics for people willing to chant inane messages worked too.


Go ahead and implement Demento's suggestions, then also let rates go up, terminate portfolio insurance, and cap individual mortgage insurance at $400,000.  That would make the CMHC return to its original mandate of helping first-time buyers of cheaper properties.  (Once the crash drops average prices, you could lower it further, and eventually scrap the whole dumb program.)  Allow only citizens to buy property here.  Bring in the present number of immigrants, or maybe a few more, but do so based on skills, not family or buying your way in.  Get immigrants from all over.  Help students come here from lower-income countries by giving them lower tuition - right now we don't get enough because they can't afford the triple tuition we charge.  Finally, note that a crash would be A GOOD THING!!!   We can survive a little short-term default pain for a huge long-term gain.


Of course Blame the City.  In a 30 Second google search you came up with enough compelling evidence to chose another route. But know Lets just keep throwing good money after bad.  Look on the bright side though we now have  "A new database tells you the most (and least) popular dog names in Anchorage"  https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2017/07/13/a-new-database-tells-you-the-most-and-least-popular-dog-names-in-anchorage/


Please don't.


Alaska has so much oil and gas but HB 111 wants to stop more oil from being drilled so Alaskans can go broke, why?

Monopoly Lovers and Oil Haters control Alaska and that is why Alaska is going broke, no leadership that is PRO OIL!

IF YOU ARE PRO OIL PLEASE RUN FOR OFFICE!!

THE OIL HATERS HAVE TAKEN OVER, WHY LET THEM KILL YOUR FUTURE???


The opposition media thrives in these environments.  FNN imploded because of their own reckless behaviour, but just enjoyed 8 years of hanging Obama in effigy each night.  The shoe is merely on the other foot.  While Obama took it with Grace and let if flow like water off a ducks back, Trump is surfing his dvr each night fir something to react to.  That was not what he was elected to do.


Well, seeing that you’ve just conditioned yourself out of all relevance, I guess we won’t be hearing much from you either.


The gas tax in Eugene did not go towards the roads.  It was determine that it was not enough and went elsewhere.  This was reported in the paper.


The only things standing in the way of this actually working one day are our poorly written and barely enforced laws regarding distracted driving - e.g., mobile device usage behind the wheel.


seems smart!


Did they ask you to lie?
Cover up a crime?
Commit treason?


Unfortunately it took this long because the sheer stupidity of the people buying them,  You can't teach pork any faster then what they are willing to learn!


I'd rather see a sliding scale fine based on income


So here we have Peter Lemon, awarded the Medal of Honor by Nixon in 1971. He was blitzed stoned during the action from which he received the Medal. Of course, he subsequently turned into a worthless POS as only a cannabis user can. Here is his miserable sorry life today:

"Mr. Lemon is a motivational speaker presenting to hundreds of corporate and non-profit clients nationally.  He is also an author, sculptor and documentarian.  An industry leader for thirty years, his companies provided business insurance to over three thousand restaurants nationwide and professional liability insurance for the 70,000 nurses of the National Organization of Health Care Professionals and as a commercial general contractor built convenience stores for Amoco, Exxon, Phillips, Conoco and Diamond Shamrock."


Once agin Mr. Kelly is blaming low oil prices for the $2 billion he gave back to the richest corporations in the history of the earth. Man the $2 billion would look good in a savings account right now.


I'm not *"following"* Trump, anywhere. Re-read the post: it was about a fair shake in journalism, which he's clearly *Not* getting from ADN/WaPo.

BTW- do you normally spell out actual laughter when you type...? Just asking.


In the current state of affairs, no ANC MP's could ever ask a relevant question - they would immediately be fingered as anti-Zupta. A perilous position for a coward.


Trump "Oh Lord. 60,000 people marched in Toronto. That rattles me, I'd better resign"

All those marches are irrelevant, pointless, without purpose, they are the Norwegian Blues of politics.


Yesssss!!!!


God says so.


Unlike what you sound, I don't
use drugs. As for you, if I have
take a guess, you do. Get your
head out and try fresh air.


Most of the Tribunals and advocates use the laws and legalism to find a way to reconcile remarried people with the Church.  The whole process is a legalistic farce.


DAs don't require the help and assistance of the police to make their cases.  The police bring them their (the police) case.  DAs require good police work, and the decision to no file a case occurs more than you think.

If you watch the entire press conference, you will see just how thorough and professional this investigation was.  It is unfortunate that Ms. Gorrow did not mention the ear witness that heard the repeated demands by police to drop his weapon.

What is VERY interesting is his attorney filed a tort claim notice without hearing all the evidence, relying only on her client's statement to her.  Or did she already know what was coming at the press conference?


The usual liberal morons would jump on it and " report" them. LOL


Stars aren't good enough Motley - I’m lobbying civil comments for a standing ovation emoji.


Too busy. Look how many of his staff plus outside attorneys are on this. Millions down the drain.


For 10 years I and countless others have railed against the I-drones dropping I-crap in the garbage every 5 months for a new one polluting the environment and now its mainstream when a Globalist Liberal prof goes at it?

Or brought up the children chained to posts making the cases......

Man there is something really wrong with this world.


Very unprofessional of the current admin.  They lost the election as voted by the american people.  They have the right to disagree, but they should make the transition as seamless as possible.


No thanks. The rest of the law abiding residents in this city don't deserve to lose their freedom because we won't control the criminals.


As were many who were ordained before that...and they were more "progressive"....

Or are those who disagree with the Left the only ones to be considered "childish and immature"?


It was not Scooter Libby, it was Richard Armitage and nothing happened to him. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to the FBI during the investigation. Libby had nothing to do with outing Valerie Plame and neither did Dick Cheney.


How so?


What a colossal embarrassment to the city, the fan base and this franchise.
Time to blow this team up now and trade away the pieces for whatever you can get, which won't be much. Boston and New York have talented players under 25 years old that have a future. Nothing here.  It's going to be at least another 5 year rebuild, dwindling attendance and excuses from Rogers.


If you have enough money to send your kids to university in Canada, you can now effectively buy there way into Canada.


Rick - everyone knows why Sask shouldn't build more CCS plants.  They don't really work all that well, there are several lawsuits going back and forth between Sask govt and the plant engineers, and the cost is horrendous - just ask Sask taxpayers.  And all of this with a power plant ideally located close to oil and gas fields that have a ready use for the re-claimed CO2.  If CCS were truly functional, every coal utility and every country in the world would be falling all over themselves to build them as fast as they could.  It ain't happening.


It hate to be so cynical, but could the drop in enforcement be related to the fact it is politically connected multinational corporations making and selling the drugs, and that white people a significant percentage of the abusers, be a factor? It was not long ago that crack cocaine, used more often by low income minorities had much higher legal penalties and incarceration rates, while regular cocaine preferred by rich people did not. Money talks.


Unless I'm mistaken, I think that when a building is burnt out, an owner gets to build it back within the zoning rules which were in effect when it was built.  I think the term is 'grandfathered' or something like that.  Or maybe it's the term  "Legal Non-Conforming Structure" found in Section 9.1230 of the City Code on such things.


I agree with you on all counts.  Why can't the WA Insurance Commissioner's Office set-up groups in ALL counties so individual plans don't even exist?  It would benefit both the insured and insurer.  Simple solution under current law.

And, I also favor a Medicare for all plan.  Be done with all this health care fiasco.


Because the NY Times rates Canada as #1 destination to visit in 2017 precisely because of the 150 year anniversary. We can either put on a party for our guests (and the economic windfall they bring) or show the world a cold shoulder.


Meanwhile - while all this goofiness was going on, the eco-crowd were fawning over Obama's Green credentials - and yet is was Obama himself who crowed "under my administration, we've built enough pipelines to circle the globe - and then some". We're being played for suckers.........


The first priority of those forces will be to secure and supply the sub escort base. If that is accomplished, and only then, will civilian needs be addressed. You and I are only pawns, to be sacrificed when needed.


Interesting. The man that Omar Khadr's haters say he killed as a boy was American Sgt. Chris Speer. Sgt. Speer's commander-in-chief, the president of the USA, has just praised the job Trudeau is doing as "spectacular." So if Donald Trump can let it go, maybe you should too.


This just goes to show the absurdity of the gender-balanced cabinet. Poor Seamus may have to get a sex-change operation to maintain Trudeau's idiotic and childish promise of appointing on the basis of gender rather than qualification.


The sheriff did not break the law, he was enforcing it. The judges issued partisan judgements.
Profiling is a great tool. If you have a band of pitbulls illegally loose biting people, are you going to round up leashed, licensed poodles? No You are going to examine every pit bull to see if they are leashed and licensed.  Common sense.
If the Latinos in that state felt they were unfairly targeted, perhaps they should have helped clean up the mess by telling their illegal relatives and neighbors to go home.


That's a good suggestion for CB management.  The editors mark their stuff as editorial, so why not "column" contributors specially marking theirs?

Then the uninitiated, like me, would not get confused.


"The thesis for anthropogenic climate change is that prior to fossil fuel burning, the terran climate was static." Incorrect. That is not at all what the theory is about. In fact, if you have ever read any of the blogs by actual climate scientists or those that cite them directly, you realize that they speak of past climate change the time.

The theory is roughly that the unprecedented release of co2 (documented fact) and other greenhouse gases is the primary driver of the recent unprecedented rise in global temperatures (also documented fact). Multiple lines of inquiry confirm this. This is also in line w. basic physics and climate models (which are continually checked against the actual data). Every other proposed explanation has been found wanting.


Best OP-Ed yet on the fiscal crisis-thanks Dermot!


It is now apparent groups like The Tides foundation and the anti-democratic Lead Now group, amongst other foreign parties turned the 2015 Canadian election and exerted a far stronger influence than the Russian fantasy of the Democrats in the US election.
Yet we don't see any interest in Canada to investigate this travesty.


China is supplying North Korea with all the material necessary to produce missiles, atomic weaponry but not basic necessities for life.

North Korea is China's excuse to rattle sabres along with it's intrusion into the South China Seas. Why in hell do we even contemplate trade of any kind with China.
Why improve an economy whose sole purpose is to dominate. Nothing else matters!


"Instead of demonizing our homeless youth, we should be asking ourselves why we are forcing our children to live on the streets."

"We" are not.  Their parents...are.


How do you spell Liberal Sycophant? Why Peter Harder of course


Not going to happen...


"...If people are offended by the truth or feel the need to hide it from the media, and or our allies then maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with the decision...
You do realize that the basis of this was torture in a black ops site away from the rule of law.


Also in my 50s only stranded once in over a million kms of driving my F-series trucks.


Trudeau has no choice but to refrain from saying anything against Trump, because Canada has to do its best to  get along with the US government, like it or not.

Incidentally, Canada's situation in relation to the US reminds me to an extent of when I was in Portugal and I asked the tour director on our bus trip how his country gets along with Spain.  He said the two countries get along ok, and I then pointed out (and he agreed) that  Portugal has no choice but to do so, since Spain shares its sole land border. Well, that's pretty much what our position is like with the US.


Funny that Saudi Arabia and Egypt are not on the list.  Where did the 9/11 highjackers come from?  Maybe this is because Trump has significant business interests in these countries?


And what if they have a religious problem with paying for cancer or heart attacks?  Should they be allowed to keep those medical services from their employees without telling them their insurance does not offer these normal services?


No, absolutely not.  It dropped due to the Saudis flitting the market with oil with the intent of getting rid of the us frackers


He was arrested for domestic violence and was allowed to keep his gun, Police failed big time on this.


Says the raving misandrist.


Do you? I think most Canadians want the Trudeau govt to enforce our national boundaries...


The question is why on earth would CDIC cover deposits here?  The whole point of the traditional chartered bank model is to be diverse in lending, across industries, regions, etc. And to lend across a mix of various terms.  With collateral, decent down payments, borrowers taking a hit if they default, etc., all designed to induce good behaviour by borrowers, both personal and corporate. If a "bank" like this wants to lend on dicey terms, for one type of purchase only, with thin collateral, why is public money at risk to backstop it??  (And I know the banks themselves are not doing their traditional work either - but they are still a long way ahead of HC, let alone the outright scams lower down the mortgage food chain.)


mm 5 weeks left, id say about as much retaliation as he did when syria crossed those lines in the sand, so NOTHING


And you are criticizing BC that has has had a $30/ tonne carbon tax for years, as opposed to other provinces that have none? I don't get it. We feel so sorry for our 0.1 % of global carbon emissions, believe me - please flagellate us some more (oooooh - I'm beginning to like it).  Carbon taxes are a completely useless scam, but don't criticize BC, when we're already paying way more than we should.


Palestinians have never recognized Israel's right to exist. They have recognized Israel's existence but not its right to exist. In fact Abbas has said the PA will never sign an agreement which includes recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is no different than recognizing Egypt as an Arab state or Iran as a Muslim state or Syria as an Arab state and so on. Non-Arab and non-Muslim rights in those countries can be maintained and protected, unless of course you are implying that non-Arab and non-Muslim rights are not maintained or protected in Arab and Muslim countries, which would be a heck of an admission by an Arab and Muslim toady.


Mayor Cruz hates Trump. Trump appointed Zinke. Anyone within the lifespan of Zinke will be discredited. See the thread? Hate politics from the left is all they know.


My bishop, who seems to be a good man, told me that he is "waiting for the Holy Spirit" on this issue. Don't know what that means. But the writing has been on the wall since 1979, when vocations to the priesthood began to collapse. Since then, we have had several different vocation recruitment programs, with scant results. Right now, the "John Paul II priests" are in charge of the effort. Twelve seminarians, three in college. One left within two weeks. This is not exactly the "vocation boom" EWTN radio brags about. The bishops seem willing to let this go on, and on, and on. Waiting for the Holy Spirit sounds a lot like the Jews who are waiting for the Messiah.


It's their country (China), it's their (Chinese) problem to solve. No amount of faux western hand-wringing will change policy in China.

When the Chinese people rise up and oppose their Government is when change will happen. That will be a messy situation for sure, but so has been any revolution where the people decided that they would be their own masters. Remember, right next to Canada sits the USA, a country born of violent revolution only a little more than 200 years ago.


Mr. Wohlforth states that "broad based taxes" are the answer, but conveniently fails to mention a state sales tax which could raise millions of dollars from the hordes of tourists that visit Alaska every year.


Great news!


You moved before Trump getting elected or after? Guns and violence preexisted trump by....I don't know, centuries?


He actually offered to make them another type of baked good. That was before they screamed/cursed at him and displayed obscene jestures.


You're making too much whine out of your sour grapes.


Give us an idea (or two) how and where get cheap electricity.
Obviously, we can buy more from QC where there's a permanent  surplus, which will only be growing with adoption of new technologies.

What else?


Do a little research and form you own opinion. Also look into foundation tax returns and who was on the payroll of the foundation. I saw a chart on at a site today that had a chart with who, what country and how much. You'd be surprised.


Players usually love it when another player hits the jackpot with a big contract (even though most are too shortsighted to realize it's actually costing THEM a chance at better money).


You didn't address ANY of the legal arguments presented in the article


You don't need to be fluent to clean offices. The south east Asians that clean my office, are very nice people but they do not speak English.

If I were them I would ride out the gold plated benefits and exploit it as an opportunity to learn as much English as I could. Then when the benefits run out they can go to work cleaning or doing whatever else they can get.

Hard work and a good attitude pays off no mater what you do.


Justin will welcome them all. There is no fiscal reality in his world...none! Trump needs to step up in the name of North American security and start forcing junior to stop selling sensitive technology to China, stop allowing Syrian refugees in North America with little or no screening.


Oh, you will know the false Christians. They will not upset you. You seem agitated with me.


I think the 1% (above ~$200,000) who pay 25% of this country's income tax are mostly salaried employees.  And salaried employees can't sprinkle income across family members to dramatically reduce tax.  Why should small business owners?


Real life is not a movie "Buster".


His first Name rhymes with Forge, and his last Name rhymes with Soros.


The US Dept. of Energy has an obligation to retrieve this balloon and the synthetic line from the ocean.  We already have enough plastic dumped into our oceans.  Numerous birds and turtles are being choked by plastic- and whales are ensnared by ropes.

Dr. Ernest Moniz is the Sec. of Energy- appointed by Obama.  Take charge- clean your garbage up.


If they still made Ramblers that's what all the Libertarians would be driving


CNN is FAKE NEWS. They should NEVER get a question, in fact, they should be KICKED OUT!!!


You have ZERO clue, none, nada, less. Have you ever been to a homeless camp or to one of the facilities ever? Have you ever dealt with this population? Somehow I doubt from your completely ignorant and un-compassionate diatribe. Lets start with a few basic facts many of these people suffer from mental illness and have zero chance of getting a job like ever. These are the people who would have been locked up before Reagan. Second many suffer from substance abuse and thus are not employable. Many suffer from both, in any event they are in ever sense less fortunate than you and I. Yes there are some who refuse to get a clue, and I have real heart burn about that.  Many people are one paycheck, one hospital bill one broken car away from homlessness. Once there it is very, very difficult to keep and maintain a job. "What you do to the least of these you do to me". Ever hear that?


Give the guy a break.

Being "responsible for providing a clear message from the Trump Administration" is like trying to herd cats.


"holding breath and stamping feet"...video please.
Trump's tantrum (IMO) would have been magnitudes greater.
I was all in on Hillary in 2008, and again 2016.


Oh gosh.  Not Ken Buck too?


I don't think Trump is bluffing. I do think this is a very serious matter, with the potential for very significant negative economic consequences. That said, if Trump decides he is going to play hard ball with us, and there is no diplomatic pathway to mitigate that, then Canada should not roll over either. Did we not fire back at the time of Smoot-Hawley?


And we will never be able to match US salaries.Unlike baseball players, doctors are a necessity.

 I would say charge them high fees, and waive it only of they work in Canada for 20 years.


Seems like they come with a far too short of leash.


One could also infer that you need to just be a female celebrity in order to accuse someone of something and get them fired no questions asked.


If Trudeau is so good at memorizing lines spoon fed from Butts, then it would be nice if broadened his repertoire just a bit.  In case you hadn't noticed: 'we're asking the 1% to pay a little more while supporting the middle class or those working hard to join it', is not a direct answer to anything during Question Period.


Because Bin Laden's Al Queda attacked us...not the Taliban in Afghanistan. And we drove Al Queada out of Afghanistan within a few months.


I was 18 in 1972 in Lethbridge.  I NEVER saw a sign saying "no Indians allowed" and never heard of such a sign.  I spoke with a couple of my friends from that time.  They too, never saw or heard of such a sign.  Simply because, no such signs existed.  Sylvia McAdam needs to get her facts straight.


My kids have cell phones so they or I be contacted in any emergency.  I would not send my kids to a school that uses Yondr bags and locks them.  It's up to parents to teach their kids appropriate use of cell phones not legislation or school administrators.


I agree the type of play you mention is a result of "safe" helmets. You never see rugby players tackling with their heads, they tackle with their shoulder and arms


Red-light cameras are necessary at every road cause through this can save from lots accidents. Once had seen a person who not follow this while mine https://www.topbustours.com/niagara-falls-bus-tours-vacation-packages/


"Articles on certain subjects unfortunately attract a high number of offensive and abusive behaviour."

Your instructions are expressed in very poor grammar. Your mistake is self-evident. Please correct it.


Let me correct that headline: "Construction industry faces shortage of workers willing to work for wages companies offer."

The boom is not going to continue much longer. The market is nearing saturation for apartments and high end houses. Population growth is going to start slowing due to skyrocketing costs of housing and decreasing quality of life thanks to growth. Landlords are already seeing tenants leaving Colorado. Buildings in areas like Cap Hill that were full two years ago now have regular vacancies.

Classic Colorado foolishness - project future demand based on a temporary boom. There are some big problems looming - starting with WATER! Once again the Front Range is in drought conditions. And we are shattering heat records weekly. Next big problem - a transportation infrastructure that is already nearing gridlock. I-25 has returned to being a parking lot most of the time.

I'd take those population projections with a grain of salt.


After Secretary of State Clinton's term she was recognized as the most admired and powerful woman in the world. After her first term as Senator from New York she was re-elected by a 67% majority of the people who recognized that she was a damn fine representative of the people. FBI head Comey made unwarranted editorial comments as he announced that no charges would be recommended against Clinton or any of her aides but he most certainly did not say she was "unfit for the office". She is probably the most qualified person we have had run for the office of POTUS in the nations history and will make a great President starting next January. Are you a relation of Les Brown? You both seem to have the same sources of disinformation to draw from.


He's the President of the United States.  He doesn't get to make "informal comments".  Grow up.


After ISIS ??? they are still committing mass genocide to this day genius, why because a do nothing Obuma pulled out far far  to early creating a deep  black a hole
George Walker Bush  served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, September 11th 2001 HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS PRESIDENCY !!!!
Perhaps you should look at the man who held office 8 years prior and was impeached for committing lewd acts in the oval office with an intern.
No no must be Bush, fits your left wing ideology much better !!!


I have a different opinion of Obama than yourself but
I agree that a historical perspective is usually the most accurate.


Restructuring the PFD was just one part of the Governor's balanced set of cuts/revenue increases that he submitted to the legislature back in January. The restructuring has been called a key part of the proposal but it was not the first priority anymore than an income/sales tax or increased mining/fishing taxes. That the Senate made that their number one priority doesn't mean the Governor wouldn't have preferred a revision of oil tax structure which was also part of his plan.


Because she is a government minister / pseudo celebrity and can get away with it. Judy Rybould Wilson dresses professionally.


Don't worry we will invite in all the so called refugees Donald Trump wants to deport. All these highly educated hard working future citizens should boost our productivity no end. Its done wonders for Europe.


... is the target of his puerile misogyny?


Charles - An integrated fixed-fee system (what you call managed care) would be interesting to explore. The system could be incentivized to keep costs down since it is paying the bills from a fixed yearly "subscription" from each patient. It would also be incentivized to keep patients out of inpatient care because that's where the costs are.

The trick will be to keep quality and safety up - you would either need competition (unlikely up here), or service/safety standards that the state or feds mandate (and we all know Alaskans like gov't-mandated things).

The gov't employee population (or education employees) would be a good proving ground for such an arrangement, but good luck getting them to go along with a perceived reduction in "choice."

It's not an easy problem, lobbyists or not. Some of the things you propose are needed, but they're no magic bullet, and I worry that you are making them appear so.


The oohs and ahhs of the Tulsi Gabbard fan club are misplaced.  Other than being outspoken, controversial, and a maverick, if you measure by results, what has she truly accomplished for her constituents?


So it's not just scientific illiteracy. If CO₂ contributes 20% to the GHE, and does so alone, with no feedback help, then CO₂ warms. And now you are back to no warming for CO₂. As I said, amazing. I've already indicated that there are no negative feedbacks (other than the lapse rate feedback) associated with increasing water vapor.

What in the world are you talking about regarding "[my] theory"? And do you understand that by advocating for increasing surface albedo, you are acknowledging that warming requires mitigation? And just a heads up. It would take a whole lot more paint than that.


Good for them, and good on the city for trying a novel solution.  I just hope the people are screened for suitability, and that they respect the property they have been loaned.  Let's follow this closely.


We're selling out to America,  getting what in return?


he should be in jail


That does not include all of the costs which are assumed by the provinces after the refugees have been in Canada for over a year.   The total cost to taxpayers will be much higher at the end of 5 years.


Maybe something like this?

https://www.eugene-or.gov/2047/The-EUG-Parade


Ah yes, 1/2 of 1% increase in sales tax over ten years - from 1990 as I recall. The system would have been built and paid for by now.  AND she went to jail for corruption charges so, history DOES repeat itself!


Well better to support good jobs and a living wage than starvation wages don't you think?
Did you ever see the documentary inequality for all?  If you haven't, you should.

I mean wasn't that what the Donald was pushing for during the campaign?


A problem in creating processing facilities here in Hawaii is the fact that processing recycled materials creates a great amount of industrial waste that would need to be disposed of somewhere. For instance, the amount of chemicals used to clean paper pulp for reprocessing as recycled is both plentiful and toxic. This is one reason why most facilities that take in and recycle materials are not located in the United States. This on top of the fact that, cost-wise, it is way more expensive to process recycled materials in the United States than abroad


POS.....Sounds right......


So, not a pedophile, Spacey is saying. But are we reverting to 50s standards?  I don't think you can say that. This is a different world we live in today, with the sexual freedoms  (and expectations) that go on now.

I don't think this will last, these people in the et business rampaging against SH. It still goes on everywhere else and women are still afraid to speak out about it if they want to keep that job in the grocery store.

I do agree. author is taking the easy way out on this one.


Sweep it all away.  They are useless social justice warriors corrupting our education system.  They are behind the cause that our kids can't do math and nor read and write.  But they know all about social justice causes and recycling!


I see your true colors are starting to show.  You just don't like the military, which is fine.

By the way not that you care but I'm not in the military and I have a rental which I rent to locals at below market rent.


Hey ! Earn your pay - find a way to make Homeless respond to orders yo be responsible people and work or reside in Shelters.


"You don’t see this in many economic theory textbooks."

Probably a good reason why you don't. Oh, wait, it's some kind of leftist conspiracy, correct?


Hey, what about working?  I'm a Canadian professor and I funded my PhD studies by working part-time.  And Canada has a great program that facilitates the hiring of PhD students by companies--and not just students from the natural sciences and engineering. I've just worked with a PhD student in management on a project for a start-up (a start-up that I co-founded by the way).  Looking for hard-outs as a PhD student only leads to looking for hand-outs as a prof.  If you have something useful to offer you will learn a lot by working.


It   is  difficult  to  see  how  reducing  emissions  from  buildings  could  be  considered  "low  hanging  fruit".

I  venture  an  estimate  that  85%  of  buildings  in Canada  cannot  make  much  of  an  improvement   in  insulation  efficiency  due  to  being  relatively  new  or  being  upgraded  in  previous  programs.

If  the  intention  is  that  the  government  will  mandate  emissions  reductions  by  requiring  electric  space  and  water  heating  the  results  will  be  limited  to  areas  that  have  a  surplus  of  non  emitting  electricity  available.

Reducing  emissions  from  12%  of  Canada's  total  to  8%  might  be  feasible  but  it  is  hardly  'low  hanging  fruit'.


Heartbreaking! Sincere condolences and prayers.


Gotta love the anti-JT posters on this topic. And that's mostly it - not pro-CPC. Zeus forbid any of them ever believe polls that don't agree with their world reality.

No problem. It's been said since the last election: 'keep believing that it is all the  fault of somebody else, keep believing that supporters will come back to the CPC if the party doesn't change. Just means another easy election victory for the liberals". So keep it up!

Don't let facts get in your way and please convince the CPC to ignore them too.

The liberals need a decent opposition, but so far the CPC ain't it.


Let's check the tape (recording):
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
His comment assumes she's already elected, that's why 'nothing you can do' hence the argument that he was only referring to not voting for her is rather weak. His own campaign referred to the comment as ambiguous, which it certainly was.

Hillary Clinton has not made any comment about changing the Second Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court cannot change the Second Amendment.  The Supreme Court may be able to affect the interpretation of the Second Amendment, which is not the same thing.

Donald J. Trump was certainly trying to exaggerate the fears of his followers and he made a provocative comment that many people, including me, thought crossed a line of appropriateness. I would feel the same way if Bernie or Hillary said it.


As why I bank locally!


And I almost killed the biggest bull elk but it was in the next valley and I didn’t see it


I remember a similar event back in 1973 (The Saturday Night Massacre) where a President fired a special prosecutor and the AG and Deputy AG resigned their jobs.  I guess the new
AG Dana Boente doesn't have the cojones to stand up to to Trump.  It's a sad state of affairs.


One of the fun hobbies to do in FBX is building your own CHP combined heat and power unit from junkyard parts. These rigs run beautiful on natgas.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=combined+heat+and+power


Bret Stephens is a mainstream Republican and a conservative, and well educated to boot. Of course this essay was highly ironic - we all (many of us anyway) know that our laws forbid banishment of citizens for any reason.

I agree that our nation needs better educated citizens, yet we know that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. In other words, the student has to be willing to study. Many of our poor students come from generations of uneducated ancestors; their families may not see education as a necessity. The current generation of illiterates probably can't be saved. The road to respect for education may take generations to travel. On the other hand we can quickly get educated willing workers with immigrants, as Stephens points out, and Stephens is also right that immigrants both legal and illegal commit crime at a far lower rate than citizens do. Public works jobs may be needed to help our most afflicted communities in the meantime.


No surprise big bucks never share


If reading the catcher in the rye is an influence for shooting people, certainly someone somewhere is perusing the Letters section, and is about to boil over and commit violence. That, or someone is just a violent hater and, unless kept in an isolated world of all the things that they prefer, will eventually commit violence.


Just speaking for myself , but getting tired of all the non reality / special effects
pie in the sky movies! What happened to a good , normal , laugh your guts out
comedy? I know the answer - far more difficult  to produce as intelligence is
required . So I guess we are Doomed to taking our Brains out and placing it
under our theatre seat , then digging into the $20 bucket of popcorn smothered
in artifical butter! ughhhh


It only applies to 50% of China's emissions.   And those emissions are reported by a government that has been accused of ocassionally misrepresenting economic figures from time to time.


You almost certainly will. We still do, even today to an attenuated degree, among the various initial founding 17th and 18th century waves of English-speaking immigrants from different ethnographic groups from within England and Scotland/Ireland.  Culture dies hard, even in a "melting pot."


That's because the turkeys were distant cousins.


I too love a lot of the historical aspects of worship.   I like chant, in English, I like candles and statues or icons, I like the old fashioned architecture, but also recognize they are all adiaphora and not a matter of faith.    the problem is when they are made out to be more than that, that they are essentials.    and that everyone has to love the exact same things.  but even celebrating the most modern style of liturgy is still connected to the historical liturgy.   too many on the right forget that the liturgy has changed and adapted since the very beginning.   and it will continue to change and adapt.


Burke was (may still be) one of a number of bishops who would NOT allow men with RCC annulments to be priests within his diocese.  He seems to attempt to do whatever he pleases.  I'm happy to see the Pope cramping his style.


. . . in the context and way Trump has created and/or exploited.

Why?

Because, jumping on Trump's little passion play, and worse, echoing the words of Trump in response to Trump follows and enables Trump.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Carlos, Smith, Ali, King, and Kapernick.

NONE of them, to my knowledge, pursued the interests of Russsia, or the interests of any other enemy of the United States of America, in the same way Trump has.

None called for the exclusion of peoples in the US based on RACE, or RELIGION.

None did, nor I think would have, called Nazi sympathizers "fine people".

And all, I believe, sought what THEY BELIEVED, was a stronger United States of America. . .

Just like Trump apparently believes he is creating a stronger America by maneuvering for the loss of health insurance by millions of Americans,

. . . and the revival of burning coal for energy. . .

. . . and again, by calling Nazi sympathizers "fine people". . .


Its too bad this paper (and others) did not inform Ontarians 10 years ago where this was all headed, some people knew, but only the financially literate ones.  It was left to the Working Families Coalition to tell the story about how scary the PC's were. The most important election on Ontario's history was the election between McGuinty and Tory, and Tory screwed it up by promising to fund religious schools, which McGuinty played up to the max (you don't want religious schools, do you... hint hint). I held my nose and voted Tory. Smitherman and the Green Energy Act soon followed. Ontario is now circling the drain. Thanks a lot, liberals.


Yes, that's exactly what is meant. Disagreement is implied to be something that it isn't. "Hate" has also become a synonym for criticism.

If you serve meat at your dinner party, you "hate" vegetarians. If you think free enterprise is overly regulated, you "hate" those who buy stuff. If you say half the population is capable of functioning without additional mandates on their employers, you are waging a "war on women" and "hate" them.

But what do you expect in a time when the terms "ironic" and "literally" are being redefined and misused?


In what way are they "not Catholic"? Specifically how are they "clearly not in union with the Pope"?

The Holy Father has left some key questions unanswered, and has taken what appears to be more than one position on the answers.

As successors to the Apostles should they not seek clarification from the successor to Peter?


Also Eric Lyin would you rather their be  no Hart and have the mayor and council deciding everything for the public regarding rail we would be giving money away to contractors and pay to play at a bigger level..


The media isn't covering it but after the hurried nomination ( it was supposed to start at 8pm for prime time TV viewers but was changed to 4:30 pm ) to thwart any new emails being released the convention center became less than half occupied as the Bernie supporters all left , Now there is just scattering of people here and there, As one filmer said , "There are more people at a 76ers game"  This DNC has single handedly destroyed the Democratic party :  (


McConnell is the scorpion  and Trump is the frog. No one can ever trust a scorpion.


My thoughts? That sketch wasn't even done based on witnesses in AK, with limited detail I have from news locally I have suspicion FBI is following him here based upon their information.


The situation of the mentally  abusive spouse is in its self intolerable over time, if there are children involved, it quickly becomes unbearable.
I learned the hard way with a new supervisor, don't wait for the axe to fall, schedule an interview, ask what that boss wants & how does he/she expect me to deliver. Take obvious notes, showing your interest in the discussion. Then let the survival instincts start burning some of those reserve calories that have accumulated over the years...


How refreshing to hear a republican talk like this. Maybe I won't write off all of the "other" half of the country after all; it seems like there actuallyare some decent people over there.


thats because the loudmouth big babies in kotz squealed and got their way, just like babies in a crib


Another Commenter for Hire,
Stop and think about it. Voter lists have been provided for years, at least 40 years that I know of here in Alaska.
There was no Commission around then, only political parties, political operatives, pollsters, marketers, unions, and noisy people who want and use them. They are the people who want access to the voter lists.
Now a federal commission is asking, not demanding, for voter lists with public information.
Same information lots of people got about ten months ago and months before that.
I changed my Party status to NP, because I no longer believe in the two party system.
As far as what it has to do with stopping illegal voting, nothing because the only way to stop it (future) is to issue at no charge a voter card with your photo and or finger print.
As far as finding out if illegal voting occurred (past tense) I imagine some "genius" has come up with a computer formula or program to feed all information into, compare previous elections to the 2016.


But how do you feel about alcohol?


You do realize it was Republicans that nicknamed it Obamacare in the first place, right? It was a term of derision. Then Obama owned it — took the insult away from them — by saying "It's fine by me if you call it Obamacare."


Ms Guthrie was charged $3,850 for a ‘medical-legal’ report because it’s worth its weight in gold  in terms of having to stand-alone in legal proceedings.  A much less costly ‘medical ‘ report, covered under the Canada Health Act (CHA), is written with diagnosticians and treatment providers in mind.


This is very true and why we need Natasha...she maybe candid when it comes to her opinions but you always know where she stands.


Please Please Rob Mullins get Tom Hermann before he goes somewhere else!!!!!!!!   Remember Einsteins comment on insanity.


This woman is using the WH and her kids to soften her image and increase sales for her brand. Don't forget this is a woman that abuse low pay worker to produce her clothes. She even refuses to pay mat leaves for her American workers. A lefty close to Canada? What the heck are you talking about? I am a Canadian and this train wreck cannot be further from Canadian values. Please stop copying her PR team memo!


You've got that all backwards -
Clueless President - Fake Guy


Can you imagine if the FDA took a similar approach such as yours?


This man should be impeached. It's that plain and simple.
The fact that democracy led to a clown like this being elected or to Brexit in the UK shows how flawed the western electoral system is.
If people aren't intelligent enough to vote sensibly then they should be compelled to vote appropriately. and there should be an end to the secret ballot.


He spent nearly all of his life outside of religious buildings, synagogues or the temple.


All Danny Boy is and ever will be is a title collector.  What did he do for Alaska when he was appointed as AG?  Not a damn thing.


Free Speech is Golden, so Drill Baby Drill and stay out of court!


Type 1 diabetes isn't controllable through diet because it is caused by the loss of the insulin producing cells in the pancreas.  That means type 1 diabetics require insulin injections to maintain healthy blood glucose levels.  Also, I said that a strictly Paleo diet is not healthy.  My diet is 85% Paleo.


Today? How about we just start with the guys with the swastika tattoos and fasces flags chanting 'Jews will not replace us!' they certainly call themselves that.
What makes them different : they declared themselves different. It's the cornerstone of their ideology.  If you think other people are lesser and do not respect their right to live they have no obligation to respect yours.

Then: read a history book.
There is no difference in the doctrine. Only the advertising has changed,and not even much. Alt-right is just Nazi rebranded to make recruitment easier. They don't even do it for long. Soon as you're in they bring out the old branding again.

It's not an ideology that gets to be tolerated or allowed to exist unchallenged.  This is a settled matter. We literally had a war over it. The entire world was involved.


Typical politician, sell herself to any party in any way that will best advance her career.  This has nothing to do with representing the people that voted her in.


Samantha Bee?  Really?  She is a brain dead left wing moron and not at all funny.


Most places would call this theft.


Perhaps educate those men to keep them off the 12 year old girls?


If I own a car it's my responsibility to make sure it doesn't run out of gas . If I give a person a ride , I can ask they help pay for the gas--but if they don't and I run out of gas it's my responsibility to walk to the gas station to buy gas.  Men don't get pregnant---only women do. Women shouldn't give free rides if the person they are giving the ride to doesn't help pay for the gas and they don't want to walk to the gas station by themselves.  The reason women are killing massive numbers of innocent nearly born babies is they don't face they're responsibility .We are told today's women are strong and independent . If they are so strong , why do they roll the dice and say yes when if they just said no--they wouldn't get pregnant ? Millions of innocent nearly born babies are put to death because women don't face their responsibility .  Why are women so powerless to either buy birth control themselves or demand their partner buy some ? Birth control costs so little , yet they refuse .


Wow, so this kid was singled out due to an unsubstantiated threat, and was then arrested.  I sincerely hope that the school and the police punish the person or person's that made this false report.  I would also like to find out more about why he had to break a window in the door to exit the school.  Very sad behavior on the part of the school and our local law enforcement.


Any incumbent legislators who voted for this Tajmahawker originally should not be re-elected, as they didn`t even acquaint themselves (we have to assume) with the details of THIS scam.
How are they going to wade through the details of things like oil taxes and balancing budgets?
 Please don`t give your vote away. Make it say something.  Any Leg council member who supported Hawker`s sweet deal for a buddy who donated to the republicans, should get das boot.
It`s time to rotate some "citizen legislators" back to real life of NO PER DIUM, and to find a real job.
Your vote matters. When illegally gerrymandered oil friendly candidates get their skids greased into office with oil money, they are asked to return the favor.
And they did. ----------------------------------------https://www.adn.com/economy/article/parnell-makes-pitch-lower-oil-taxes/2011/01/18/


Technically aren't all the players for the Raptors international players?  I don't think they have any Canadian players after trading Corey Joseph.  I might be wrong.


Things that are harmful to society should be "controlled" by the governing authorities. You and I may differ on what is "harmful" but that right needs to be bestowed on the government, this is Biblical as well. I am not going to rehash all we have discussed in the last week of so, but I think you know where I am on this topic.


"issues that lead once good individuals to make poor choices" Ben w, there comes a time when you own your decisions and actions. While a 8, 10, 12 year old, may lack the cognitive function and/or impulse control to not steal and adult does. At that time it becomes a choice and to a societal flaw or fault. So you look forward to whatever you want, but no rational society will accept predatory behavior perpetrated on it's citizens.


What is odd is that some of the women insisting on wearing full face coverings freely admit that it isn't for religious reasons. It's their personal choice. A good number of Muslim women are offended that they are counted in with the cover-wearers. Many hate it and find it a reminder of the oppression they faced prior.

So can we stop this equating to "religious freedoms" and define it as what it is? Persons who refuse to show their faces in public for no other reason than vanity or neurosis.


Takes one to know one, right Ridgefield?


Thank You for proving your just want to stir up people, your response, even you would be hard press to explain.


"36 other countries have better healthcare systems than ours, so your continued claim of substandard is pure ignorance".
Explain "Better"! More people have the opportunity to have their little boo-boos fixed, Maybe. When in comes time for timely and quality healthcare for major issues, I doubt it. Will the central government absolutely authority in implement and expand their social engineering, most definitely.
I don't consider protecting my families healthcare, which by the way was perfectly fine before the central government tried to fix it, as whining.

"Again, we are "forced" to do lots of things to live in a civilized society"
When people start forcing things on others, not real sure how you can continue to call that civilized. Sound more like oppressive to me. Nothing civilized about that.


I tried voting. It didn't work.

Any other suggestions, Mr./Ms. Profound??  ("Democracy isn't a spectator sport" - very original)


“I’m not terribly worried about the adequacy of the pool. I just want to get the show on the road.”

That says it all..."not terribly worried about the adequacy of the pool."  This attitude that the commissioner just "wants to get the show on the road" is disgusting.  "Getting the show on the road," no matter what the outcome, plays right into the good ole boy mind set.  Never mind the competence of the company and ultimately candidate for Chief selected, at least we got the show on the road.  Contentment with mediocrity or worse is the name of the game in Hawaii, from the top down.  We get what we deserve.


Extreme vetting for white males... please.


Leafs need to pick up  a couple of good defensemen, and a skilled left winger for Matthews. Hymen just doesn't cut it. Hymen would be good for the fourth line.  They should trade,  Kmorav,  Bozak and JVR  before their value runs out  for younger skilled players. Load up on more rookies. Kasperi should be switch up with Brown. With those changes the Leafs would be a contender in two years.


I like the half arches one ... skipping stone feels retro


@wep & others "insignifiants ignorants crasse affichée" said;
"...And yet our Feds provide another several hundred millions of dollars in support to Bombardier..."

but you forgot this;
(1) National Post/ Toronto Nov. 30 2016
Chris Selley: Auditor general reveals astonishing details of the Ontario Liberals’ infrastructure incompetence

(2) Canadian taxpayers have to pay Wall Street bankers $28M for Ontario wind farm that was...
never built

(3) National Post/ Toronto; Dec. 3 2015;
In strong language, Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk has delivered one of the most devastating audit reports on government bungling and malpractice in Canadian history

(4) National Post/ Sunday July 20 2014;
« …in total, Ottawa & Ontario governments spent US$13.7-billion to bail out GM and Chrysler… »

I wanted to just show you how your displayed crass ignorance is based on a racial prejudice backward without limit !


Richard,
Really?  The "criminal element" has existed for decades, and legalizing it would only help Alaska's fiscal woes, and absolutely help to keep the "drug dealers" from absconding from millions of dollars of untaxed money.
I have kids also, and I am damn sure not going to put my head in the sand and think that if we just don't talk about it ---it will go away.
Me thinks it is better to talk with your kids about the dangers of drugs, rather than to just put all of it in a big box and call it bad.  Wake up buddy


Yes..  she should have just said yes to all their weird demands and went home.


I never said "God given".  .....and Bill Moyers is NOT a credible source.
Do you think making disparaging remarks will further your cause or are you just naturally sanctimonious?


Sad, situation the security guard had no right, all had to do is wave them on! Families or anyone needs time to load, the security guard rushing them, knowing their have a child, the pet on top of there luggage's to load/cut some slack! Gosh I keep telling myself 'WHY IS THE SECURITY GUARD HOLDING A FIREARM" yet the airport officials and the security company decline to answer questions, or admit it's the SECURITY GUARD at fault! We hold the Airport Officials, Department of Transportation and the Security Company liable and at fault.

The Security Co. don't even know how much training this -ss hole had, black eye to the Airport! again Who's next "my service dog, what about our children", how dumb open fire with families standing around, I hate guns/and guns should never be drawn and shot, there not criminals, just a simple family going home from the travel. Wow..Arrest the guard and charge him for reckless endangerment, cruelty to animal, endangering family and terrorist threatening


The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints renounced polygamy in the 1890s. Yet, this sect in Bountiful, BC (and another in the USA, called 'Yearning for Zion) seem to have maintained or resurrected the practice. One self-proclaimed Bishop, Mr. Blackmore took 24 wives in 25 years and fathered 145 children. How did this family maintain itself ... with Canada child benefit cheques? Because Mr. B. claimed all wives and children as dependents on his tax return? It is objectionable that young females received a brief narrow 'education in obedience' within the compound. Many young girls were destined to become child brides in pre-arranged marriages to older men.  Robbed of their childhoods .. coerced into marriage. Mr. B.'s lawyer is ready to appeal under the Charter, regarding religious freedom. Enough of religious rights! Gender equality must be paramount in the charter. Religion is composed of so many factions & frictions that it should not bear automatic rights.


Only God knows what it gains a sinner.  Perhaps it gains a sinner quite a lot.  As stated below, we are all sinners.  No confession brings perfection, no one approaches the bread of life free of sin.


By the way, JohnG, for what it's worth, this is the second of your comments on this particular thread presented for me to review as part of this "Civil Comments" thing while I was posting my own. I gave them both the full "good comment/civil comment" approval!


Twitler is NEVER "courteous" except when he lies - which granted, is almost all the time.

I know it is difficult for you utilitas and all your fellow whitelash voters out there but you can't sustain the energy it takes for you to maintain your cognitive dissonance.

Your problem is that reality is a social construction.  Please don't try to deny that you are in the thrall of the alt-right propaganda machine run-out of FoxNews and Brietbart.  Anytime you want to throw-off that addiction, the rest of us in the reality-based world will certainly help you through your detoxing and withdrawals from the Twitler cult.


I'd like to know where the percentage of people who cried foul on Togiak's actions live. My guess is overwhelmingly road system, who enjoy the benefits of on-call police. In rural Alaska, a large percentage of us don't have that luxury. We have to police ourselves and do what is best for our communities. I get the calls (may they always be few and far between) when I'm sleeping at home with my wife and kids, to respond to an assault or a domestic disturbance. Most commenters on here will never understand what that feels like.


There is no data to support your contention that 1 in 5 sexual assault allegations ARE unfounded; it's just that police officers have DEEMED them unfounded.  The dramatic differences in the rate of allegations DEEMED unfounded certainly suggests that the personal prejudices of individual police officers is at play here and that many of these allegations should be tested in a court to determine guilt or innocence.


I'm sure you know better than the rest of us. I'm just a parent with two kids in the DougCo school system, but facts are facts, and the "Dream Team" you support has been guilty of misrepresenting the situation in our schools. That's not to say there aren't any problems that need to be addressed, but I believe it's the Elevate slate will deal with them most effectively--and honestly. And if you're concerned about "politically-motivated" candidates, why are you voting for people who have received $600,000 from a national teacher's union? Smacks of politics to me. I'll stick with Mills, Scheffel, Abresch and Nelson, thank you.


Yeah, Canada, what's up with your shelter addiction?! Next up, let's discuss your strange food and air fetishes as well. It's getting out of hand with all the basics over there.


You're welcome.

And you seem to get more emboldened and yes, even nastier, here among those who protect your comments.  But we both know the truth.  Well, at least, I do.


All politicians flip flop, this takes the cake!


Don't you think that under the guise of the M-103 in Canada is taking place a pro-Islamic, pro-sharia coup d'etat?


What absolute rubbish. This author completely ignores the fact that the federal pension plan was not only self financing, but also generating huge income during Paul Martin's time as PM. The government took that income, and used it to help pay down the debt at the time, promising that the pension plan would forever have the backing of the federal government. Now, this historical ignoramus comes along and claims it is somehow unfair.


PETA Suks and so does Wells Fargo


Nope.  Actually in most states you will make more money due to lower taxes and different compensation methods.  They also get pensions, benefits, insurance etc. through their employer.  Doctor compensation in the USA will only go up as states compete for their services.  The Association of American Medical Colleges predicted a doctor deficit of 40,800 to 104,900 in the USA by 2030.


Who? Pastor Art? hahaha! Yeah, I stopped going to WOL when I saw all the travelling that dude did for "fellowship" purposes. Institutionalized religion is a YUGE con game...preying on your fear of the unknown (the afterdeath). Gnosticism, on the other hand...


I said know the schedule and use the App


A joyous time? He kills something that's been living for 200 years and its a good time because why? They are humans over a whale in its own home? These people get plenty, plenty of subsidies from the government. Spare me the joyous bs.


SEE VIDEO LINK
      youtu.be/5p5zSFOB5-E


Sadly right on. Just another Latin American basket case with a million excuses. Continues to make countries founded by those colonialist, imperialist, racist, elitist British look pretty good by comparison.


Awww man this kind of thing is hard to swallow. Tearing up a little. I pray Houston gets a break today.


I wonder how much cheering the Alabama peeps would do if the athletes of color should all decide to go play for another team.


Ward might be right,  at least an explosive or vehicle borne threat. It does not have to be terrorist motivated  act. Somebody  taking a car into the capital could happen. It happened at two airports in Hawaii,  pissed off  guy drove his jeep into Kahului Airport  then set it on fire. The other,
as pissed off  kid drove his car into  Aloha Airlines  baggage claim,  then to  Hawaiian baggage claim. Airport Sheriff's classified case as  an  accident. Should have been reckless endangering, guy was  pissed at  his girlfriend. No  accident when you drive into the ground level elevator area, make left turn, spin around then  go to  the Hawaiian side.


I have zero empathy to this issue of having a 40% increase in property value. The end.


If there came a time that his integrity faltered, then I would reconsider.  Until then, as an American, I will support our POTUS to the fullest!  We need to give him a chance instead of going against every move he makes!  I support him making America's military the most powerful in the world once again!!!


The Pacific NW is not the Tropics, people go up there for 4 months out of the year. The Galapagos does not get 6 feet of snow and sit barren for 8-9 months out of the year.


Why would conservative be motivated to vote, full knowing Hillary was going to carry the State and there were no Republican candidate for US Senator? Is there any doubt in the next presidential election that the Democrats won't carry California?


MICA is every bit a business as any for profit business-just a different tax structure. And because of this tax structure they do not have to pay taxes on their not-for-profit endeavors so you and I, the tax payers are supporting MICA by foregoing taxes that would otherwise be paid into the city coffers. So we are giving away our public parkland to a business that will not be paying taxes. Oh and using our city tax dollars (paid by you and me) to build parking for MICA. Oh and IF this business is built (on free parkland) they will charge the city (you and me) to rent the facilities for city meetings.


"The Stan Sheriff Center, the only other site big enough for the event, was already unavailable for the pageant’s November dates,".  So swap venues with Stan Sheriff with Blaisdell.


I posted elsewhere a paper  in this article that claims 80% reduction carbon at not significant cost by changing the grid structure.  Combined with multiple storage technologies that are already in the deployment phases of carbon reducation can be done largely with renewables.  Because of the long lifetimes of capital equipment I doubt 100% is possible for a number of decades so technologies like artificial leaves and other sequestration methods and environmental improvements need to be done.


crickets...At least we know where a significant portion of the posters here get their info


"Republican enthusiasm for the Mexican border wall is limited by the fact that it is among the most wasteful, impractical and useless ideas ever spouted by an American president."

Not the worst idea, but surely the stupidest, although the lure of "The Great Wall of America" as a killer future tourist attraction has a certain appeal.

In 1983 Ronald Reagan proposed the "Star Wars" missile defense shield (aka the Strategic Defense Initiative), cobbed from some science fiction movie, and billions of $ were poured down the drain. Thirty four years later, billions of $ are still being poured down the drain, under various new names, and we are still not safe from a missile attack.

Of course, we can always wipe everyone else out, so be happy!

Stephen J. Remington


Sorry pumpkin but Alaska isn't a capital punishment state.  You want death, move to Texas.  Take wolfy with you so he can ask for hanging the guy's hide  before they lethal inject him.


CAUSES OF BC LIBS' "SOUTH OF FRASER" LOSSES:

The long-standing perception among owners of businesses in- residents of- Metro Vancouver's SOF area that this area- especially cities of Surrey & Langley- are the neglected step children of the 21-city Metro Vancouver family...

with the (44 square mile) city of Vancouver, & other "North of the Fraser" cities for-many-decades provided with unwarranted, & prejudicially high levels of provincial govt funding & attention...

For over 10-years, the Metro Vancouver region- & BC generally- have needed the prov govt to demonstrate bold, ambitious leadership by setting out a concise, multi-year policy and spending road-map for the SOF area.

... intended to bring SOF up to city of Vancouver public transport, bridge, tunnel- & schools standards...

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/

Surrey/Langley's bridges/tunnels' toll charges should be pro-rated based on individual family's annual net income- with rebates provided to low/moderate income families!!


Public apology in 3, 2, 1....

(if he already didn't)


Small, stuffy & crappy. Oh they have different door mats. I stand corrected.


Russian hacking a story - sorry buddy but we are beyond that now. It's a fact not a story. Do you live of world where news doesn't filter into that world.


Many of us are willing to help you pack.  We don't like that you have to spend your time there either.


No John, YOU tell us what's in App 2 that doesn't exonerate the Seed Farms you'vyou've never visited or know anything about!


When I was a kid in the early 50's my parents took me to McCarthy/Kennicott.  In those days the only way to get to the Kennicott mine was via a small gauge rail system on an open car pulled by an old Model A fitted with railway wheels.  Coming back from Kennicott a lynx crossed in front of us; his front legs were on one end of a railroad tie and his rear legs on the other end.  We stopped to snoop and the tracks that critter left were the size of dinner plates.  Must have been LOTS of food in the area!


Probable cause?  Probable cause??

We don't need no stinkin' probable cause!!!!!


White House Tries To Dial Back Trump's Call For Senate To Investigate Media


According to feminist doctrine, one always believes the victim.  You and Hillary  have something in common; she went after the victims and tried to discredit them, and then changed her tune when she was candidate Clinton and affirmed that one must always believe the victim.


We have an opioid crisis in this country that has been declared a national emergency, yet it is the THC that is called out in the headline. Perhaps if we demonized these pain pills like we do weed, it would play a small part in tackling the legalized heroin market.


Not sure he was constitutionally elected unless the constitution allows us to get a little help from our Russian friends.


Obama legacy already crumbled a year ago. His chosen successor, already highly flawed, was destroyed.

After 8 years of Obama, Americans discovered what was voiced quite loudly in Canada as I recall. Across the spectrum, Canadians called Obama just a big talker with nothing inside. Canadians never like or trust big talking politicians, and never elected one to high office. We want substance. But Americans are quite different. They love big talkers. They immerse themselves in a culture of big talk and recklessness. So they elected an Obama. Who produced nothing.

But look what they did. They elected another big talker again! Keep doing the same thing but expect a different result. It's the culture.


Replace 'Globalization' with Canada's selfie stick of a sellout PM....that is the worst thing that can happen to a nation's economy!


Wrong. Exploitation of the social networks (PLURAL) and internet (including Twitter and Google) won the election for trump.


Watching Liberals legislate a business into existence is always ugly.
First, they have to ensure that loyal Liberals pick up the lion's share of any economic benefit; then they have to see if there is a legitimate concern that might upset the functioning of the existing marketplace, and then they have to deal with any extra-territorial consequences of their attempt to reinvent the marketplace.
It hasn't worked with electricity in Ontario and it seems virtually certain to create a similar incompetence and corruption fuelled fiasco in the pot market.


Great job done by Catholic charitable agencies! In such terrible time only, victims need helping hand to them. Storm affects the life of many human beings who are suffering from storm damage. Along with the life of people, the storm also affects home property damage. After the storm damage one must do the following things such as making an insurance claim, having a storm damage adjuster by searching online for the company such as AllClaimsUSA(http://allclaimsusa.com/services-view/hurricane-storm-damage-florida) and many more, document all the damage and taking measures to prevent further damage in future. So, these are the things one should take after storm damage.


How about taking away their ability to fly anywhere, make them drive.


So if someone you know is suffering from a painful illness that could be cured with the right treatment you would tell the to  "get over it"


Steve McCrea: "You're also confusing BLM with the people who shot at the police. They also spoke out against violence toward police[.]"

Steve McCrea: "So the guy driving the car into the line of protesters was motivated by which of these people?????"

Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander. Vanguard America denounced James Fields, and denied he was a member, just as BLM denied Micah Xavier Johnson was a member. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vanguard-america-a-white-supremacist-group-denies-charlottesville-attacker-was-a-member/2017/08/15/2ec897c6-810e-11e7-8072-73e1718c524d_story.html

Hypocrite.


For one that our history is complex, messy and full of imperfect figures that cannot simply and crudely be judged on different standards from a different future century. My point is if we do, by the same standard the Democratic party should be dissolved.


1984 Liberal style:
-not
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 “War is peace / freedom is slavery (and)  ignorance is strength.”
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-but
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"Debt  is plenty / Recession is progress (and) Liberals are competent"


NCR Knights of Columbus stories now also in Spanish ... Oh my ... the Knights really got under the skin of NCR bosses. :))


This fire apparently wasn't just "human caused", it has been reported that some individual started it by using fireworks along the trail. On the bright side, it has also been reported that the police have a suspect, though not in custody yet. Unbe-effin-lievable.

http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/09/03/idiot-with-fireworks-starts-columbia-river-gorge-fire-that-strands-150-hikers-and-threatens-town-of-cascade-locks/


Love it, best humor of the day!

Hey Krook Caldwell, if you're reading this, go call the ERS fund managers and demand they INVEST non-performing assets into the rail so they can complete the boondoggle ASAP and prevent senseless future road rage incidents!


"Similarly, there is little or no spending in 2017-18 on a host of programs that flow from the recent pan-Canadian climate agreement that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concluded with 11 of 13 provincial and territorial premiers in December. "
More good news ,they picked the perfect can to kick down the road.....lol.


Trump only has one aim in life - to be recognized as the greatest president ever to elected in the US.  In fact, though, he is the worst president that this country has seen.  He comes from a violent and splintered background which damaged his emotional being.  Trump is just unable to carry out the duties of the office.  Constitutionally, he is open to be impeached and removed from office.


The driver likely had a Class A CDL.  Wonder where the driver went wrong to cause this accident.


Don't let the door hit you in the .....  Nothing you just said has any truth.


This article has been amended to reflect the remarks of the defense attorney.  This was tried because the parties were too far apart to settle the case.  What the Plaintiff's attorneys want everyone to know is that they will try the case unless they get an offer that they like.  The press release was intended to further disseminate that message; it doesn't matter what the verdict was.  It was left up to a jury to render a compromise decision which is rare today.

Not a particularly great win  for the Plaintiff after paying 40% in fees to the attorneys and quite a bit in costs.  The money for medical bills probably goes to third parties but the attorneys get fees for collecting it back.  Without an adjustment, the attorneys could get more than the client.  The client shares in the $75,000 non-economic damages and the wage loss only.  From $75 take $30 leaving $45.  Now take off at least $5 in costs, probably more like $10.  That plus a little wage loss is what the injured party gets.


I'm just enjoying this quietly....nothing else needs to be said. (Ok just this: They need a housecleaning in that head office...Julien was a very good hire, now they need a real GM -Then the rebuild can start. But I really hope they never fire Bergevin so they can stay bad for a long time)


Companies are in business to make a profit.  There is nothing wrong with squeezing every benefit and resisting taxes and regulations.


Surprised the USA was so involved in this 'rescue'.  Perhaps they didn't realize that Boyle used to be married to Omar Khadr's sister.


Good. Illegal payments should be stopped.


Doesn't sound like a fair price...lessay $15,000 per name, and the money goes directly to the voter.  We have something of value to an astute businessman, I'll sell since there are no jobs here to feed my family. #maga


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Have not seen a marbled murrelet, to my knowledge.  (They are rather small and nondescript, is my understanding, like a wren.  But I'm no birder.)  Haven't seen a spotted owl either, but a logger inlaw tells me they are around in nearby terrane.  If the loggers disturb one, or suspect they have disturbed one, the logging show is supposed to be shut down and treated like a veritable crime scene (yellow tape cordon and everything), until Fish & Game comes out to ... counsel the owls, I guess, and give an "all-clear".  (So I've been told.)

I have not seen a Coho salmon although a few reportedly spawn in the lake every year (it has a small outlet to the Pacific ocean).

I have not seen a mastodon, or a glyptodont, an allosaurus, or a Sasquatch either.  (Nor have I missed them, particularly.)


I'd like to know why it's difficult for immigrants to become legalized in the US.  There's a lot of immigrants that manage to get Green Cards that are suppose to be temporary, but many use them as an unchecked lifetime privilege.


Not a good idea.
There would be too  many "friendly fire" deaths in his unit, committed by him.
Better to castrate him without sedatives and a week later when pain subsides, put him to "sleep".


Very true Lee - electronic fences  do not contain determined dogs - the muni needs to rewrite that regulation.  We have a  nice neighbor dog that used to run thru its electronic fence just to go on walks with us and our dog. We never enticed it or encouraged it. We'd head out of our yard and a few minutes later hear yelping and see the neighbor dog running shaking its head to join us. He'd keep going like that  until he was out of range of the fence.  On return he was reluctant to re-enter his own yard.


I dropped a massive bomb at Starbucks today at lunch. That bathroom is now unusable.


"Better pull harder on those bootstraps, America."
I have pulled so hard, I tore them off. I will try a set is self-adhesive I received in the mail from the Koch Brothers, but I don't have much faith in those either.


Where are these qualified workers going to go?  To a state that doesn't tax their citizens? Good luck with that.  Very few people, if any will, quit their job because they have to pay an income tax.
And for everyone that leaves, there is someone just as qualified, ready to take their place. Good riddance!


lol, the Donald will soon be gone.  I didn't lose by the way, the majority of Americans did.  You forget that the Donald is a minority president, a bum who couldn't even get the majority of votes cast.  I remember how you hypocrites criticized Bill Clinton for not getting a majority of the votes but you are so silent when your candidate doesn't even get a plurality.  Your hypocrisy is simply amazing.  But I will enjoy pointing out your hypocrisy and being able to say I told you so when the Donald finally steps down.  Drip...drip...drip...


A great man -- well deserved


The apparent issue of stiffling free speech on certain campuses should be a bigger concern.  But wait, stiffling free speech fits well in the Liberal playbook.


I'm ok with really idiotic ideas being persecuted.. mock away..


I am not "talking for others". There is more historical and archaeological evidence for the existence of Jesus than the existence of Socrates yet many of those skeptics do not question his existence. And if you think about it, Socrates only had one person write about him, Plato, but by canonical and gnostic gospel accounts there were plenty for Jesus.


There are parents who use the APS and send their kids to Outside schools. Against the law and no one does anything about it. Where is the Dept of Education and its auditing and monitoring? Crickets.


if we want to build a plane for the U. S. market, perhaps the lesson here is 'it better have some recognizable U. S. content'.


College, like many other things in life, comes down to good decision-making skills. Major in Art History, English, Music, or Gender Studies (aka hobby majors) and get ready to work at Starbucks for $12 an hour with a $500 a month student loan payment. Major in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Business, Finance, Medicine or Law and a person has a much easier time getting a good job that starts at good salary (and leads to high salaries), so that $500 a month won't be that big of a deal.


who do you think is forcing them to live like that?


Wers sessions at criminals eve where around him and hes following heresay


A) Which trails that could also use this treatment come to mind?
B) I'm pretty confident it was written in Colorado Springs, not Spring. Unless this is just being published 6 months late, in which case carry on.


yea...secretary of state causing huge security risks is kinda boring. if you are stupid.


You should listen to people rather than parrot grieveance narratives.


You give facts and actual evidence, and they will never understand. 85 million ... it's all they made. They want that and more. And they call us names everytime.


Exactly!  All you need to charge an EV is a 120V outlet and a good night's sleep. I drive 80 km a day and it takes me 30 seconds to plug my LEAF into a wall outlet (GFI for safety!) and the next morning it is fully charged.  I will never again have to freeze in -30C  pumping noxious gasoline.


My son is an inmate at Clallam Bay and in the dog program. It has been the best medicine for him. It keeps him calm and give some responsibility. He has experience with not only dogs but litters of puppies and so he has been able to take care of both in the program.   He is very committed to this program. Thank you for having this for the inmates.


black_dude, prez o is more like a dictator. It is incomprehensible that someone would compare him to Truman. If  prez o would have been in office back then we would all be speaking German and Japanese right now. Because obama has no backbone for the hard descisions that had to be made back then. Do not compare him to Truman, compare him to Mussolini. One only need look at the fantastic amount of executive privileges he has invoked, more than any other president, and the staggering amount of new regulations he has foisted on corporate America, again more than any other president, to see it. Not to mention obamacare. His policies have cost the American taxpayer trillions, and he has raised the ire and disdain of many world leaders, again, more than any other president. Truman? You need sign up for a college history lesson or something. Im sure tha prez o would gladly finance it, for a small fee!


'‘This is how government runs,'” Lundberg said."

No, Mr Lundberg, this is not how government runs.
Every one of the snafus is the result of the jobs being contracted out to private industry - Medicaid, Benefits, the RTD.
You wuuld have been FAR more accurate if you had said, "This is how the private sector runs."


suggest maybe you want to check back with who the killer is before you hurt yourself jumping to a conclusion.


I'm a gen x-er, and I can report that a poly sci and general Bachelor of Arts degrees were also known to be pretty much useless degrees  for getting jobs when we started out in our careers.  They are (and were) fine for getting a rounded education, but they provided little for securing a well paying job.  They days when these degrees would get you good jobs just by virtue of having the degree have been gone for a long time.


More excellent writing by Brooks.   I love the way he looks at human drives and not just specific behaviors.

What he has said here about the political profession is just as true in the private sector.   No matter how many seminars we see on 'following your passion,' the majority of job holders are doing it for income — a way to enjoy life outside of work, or in many cases, just to provide food and shelter for themselves.

If Brooks leaves something out, it's the motivation and environment for a person who is low skill/low pay.    Brooks lives in a world of elite education and mostly elite incomes, it's a life most of us don't know.   Yet, even with that limited group, his observation and why people chose their work remains the same at most all incomes.  The reality is that most people working, have two very unequal options.   Most must go with what puts food on the table.   Equality of opportunity is a myth, not just in our nation, but worldwide.  characteristics