Roberts: Good ol' boys still don't get it
The guys still don’t get it.The latest example of men behaving badly is Michael Hayden, the former CIA director. He said on Fox that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Intelligence Committee, was...
View ArticleRoberts: Racists are real, and they're wrong
Racism is an incendiary word. It should be used carefully and cautiously. But when racism appears, it should be identified and indicted. That brings up two questions: Are Democrats correct in saying...
View ArticleRoberts: Will GOP wake up to immigration reform?
Rupert Murdoch and Sheldon Adelson are both staunch Republicans. Both are also very practical businessmen — Murdoch owns media companies; Adelson, casinos. They became billionaires by dealing with...
View ArticleRoberts: Democrats have a secret weapon
Bill Clinton campaigned in Arkansas this week, focusing on college campuses and urging students to support candidates like Mark Pryor, one of the most endangered Democrats in the Senate. At each stop,...
View ArticleRoberts: 'Run, Mitt, run' gains traction
“Run, Mitt, run.”That was the chant as Mitt Romney appeared at a rally for Joni Ernst, the Republican Senate candidate in Iowa. The 2012 GOP standard-bearer hears those words a lot as he campaigns...
View ArticleRoberts: Hillary and Jeb need each other
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton badly need each other. They cancel out each others’ greatest weaknesses and deprive their foes of some of their strongest arguments.Both have similar flaws and are...
View ArticleRoberts: Isolation is wrong side of history
Sen. Marco Rubio has his views, and he’s sticking to them. He fiercely opposes all of President Obama’s initiatives to normalize relations with Cuba.“I don’t care if 99 percent of the people in polls...
View ArticleRoberts: Religious objection law problem is political
The real story out of Indiana is not that the legislature passed, and the governor signed, a pernicious law that could sanction discrimination against gays. The real story is the furious backlash...
View ArticleRoberts: Get smart, not tough, on crime
“In this time of increased political polarization,” writes Bill Clinton, “there is one area where we have a genuine chance at bipartisan cooperation: the over-imprisonment of people who did not commit...
View ArticleRoberts: Gay marriage is not abortion
After the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, some conservatives compared the issue to abortion. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council told Fox: “This is not going to go away. Just as Roe v....
View ArticleRoberts: Pay farmers now, not doctors later
Sometimes a simple idea makes so much sense, you have to wonder: Why didn’t folks think of this sooner? Here’s an excellent example: Increase the value of federal nutrition benefits, such as food...
View ArticleRoberts: Trump, Carson not qualified for presidency
It’s time to tell the plain truth: Donald Trump and Ben Carson are not qualified to be president.This was obvious long before the terrorist attacks in Paris focused attention on the president’s role as...
View ArticleRoberts: Facts fail, spin wins in D.C.
The late, great Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of saying, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”read more
View ArticleRoberts: Remember the entire Christmas story
This holiday season, let’s remember the entire Christmas story. It only begins in a manger in Bethlehem.“Jesus himself was a refugee,” notes Matthew Soerens, an official of World Relief, an evangelical...
View ArticleRoberts: Conservative war on science continues
Donald Trump tells outrageous lies with no regard for reality. There’s his claim — never supported by any visual evidence — that “thousands and thousands of people” in New Jersey cheered the collapse...
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