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Goodbye affirmative action, hello individual freedom, dignity

The Supreme Court just heard arguments in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.It鈥檚 about affirmative action 鈥 universities using race and ethnicity in their admissions policies.Students for Fair Admissions argues ...

Everyone deserves patient-centered care

It was September of 1974 when my 57-year-old father鈥檚 cough was diagnosed as lung cancer. He had stopped smoking 14 years earlier, and none of us were totally cognizant of the ramifications of his previous environmental exposures. All we knew was that a great person and father had been given ...

Police can legally lie to you 鈥 in most states

<em>Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond</em> <em>is on sabbatical. The following was published in 2021.</em>How many times have you seen these scenarios play out on TV crime dramas? The savvy detective tells a scared kid in the interrogation ...

Until we meet again

I read recently in an article in Gentleman鈥檚 Journal that 鈥渢he greatest occupational hazard of politics is vanity,鈥 Edwina Currie explains. 鈥淚t makes you forget what life was like before, and leaves you bereft when things suddenly disappear. What gets people into politics is a desire to ...

Let鈥檚 all vote, then wait for the recounts

It鈥檚 time to vote.It鈥檚 also time to claim there鈥檚 voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They鈥檒l see victory where it isn鈥檛 鈥 thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nation鈥檚 552 Republican ...

Mail votes rush in, but some don鈥檛 count

Early votes are rolling in to election offices, with Democratic voters making up a solid majority of mailed-in ballots.A court ruling, however, could leave some of those ballots uncounted.As of Thursday, nearly a million Pennsylvanians had already voted ahead of the Tuesday election 鈥 taking ...