Taxes Worth Fighting For

Today, war and taxes remain our nation’s two most tragic issues. While we haven’t quite finished losing those pointless shooting wars, we’ve surely lost the tax war. Yes, President Barack Obama has surrendered. You saw it on TV. He said right out in...

The Lineup: Week of February 6-13, 2011

In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Chris Toensing argues that Democrats and Republicans alike have long wished that Egypt and other U.S.-allied Arab states would forever remain docile dictatorships. It’s accompanied by an insightful cartoon by...

Silencing Human Trafficking Victims in America

Thanks to a wave of anti-immigrant proposals in state legislatures across the nation, fear of deportation and family separation has forced many immigrant women to stay silent rather than report workplace abuse and exploitation to authorities. The courts have weakened...
No More Mr. Nice Autocracy

No More Mr. Nice Autocracy

Egyptian current events prove one point for good: Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, U.S. presidents wish their favored Arab states would forever remain nice, docile autocracies. Of course, the Obama administration protests loudly to the contrary....