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TWO LAWMAKERS WHO NEVER AGREE ON ANYTHING ARE TAKING A STAND

by Christine Flowers on April 29, 2024 John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles In Courage," a series of essays that focused on...

01.05.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Two lawmakers who never agree on anything are taking a stand

John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles In Courage,” a series of essays that focused on eight senators throughout U.S....

01.05.2024 20

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: In tribute to the insight and longevity of Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem turned 90 years old last month. She is the oldest living feminist from an era when this was a sign of being a “serious woman.” The...

18.04.2024 4

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Born in Baltimore and moved by the bridge disaster

I was born in Baltimore at the end of 1961. I was only in Charm City for the first months of my life, and was younger than a toddler when my mom and...

07.04.2024 10

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Entitled to more than a 20% tip or just entitlement mentality?

The other night, I took a friend out for her birthday at an upscale French restaurant. The food is magnificent, as authentic as anything I tasted when...

02.04.2024 8

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Rant against Israel by Jewish director was jarring

A few years ago, a bunch of people tried to erase the memory of Christopher Columbus. Actually, that’s not entirely true. What they really wanted to...

26.03.2024 7

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Search for answers in Philly shootings leads to a need for searches

In 1978, I took the first of four driving exams. I failed them all. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that you cannot convince a Pa....

18.03.2024 20

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Texas off base to go after Catholic halfway house

When Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro engaged in a legal battle with the Little Sisters of the Poor over their refusal to subsidize birth control for...

08.03.2024 7

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Still waiting for Trump to condemn Putin over Navalny death

I try and avoid writing about Donald Trump, even though I voted for him twice. But sometimes you cannot avoid the elephant in the room, literally. As...

01.03.2024 5

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: A deeper type of love

Last week the country marked another Valentine’s Day, a reminder I haven’t had a traditional “Valentine” since my fiancée and I broke up in...

22.02.2024 3

Yuma Sun

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Many lessons to be learned from excellent ‘Holdovers’

I was looking for something to watch the other night, so I practically screamed “Free Movies!” into my remote, and up popped a suggestion I’d...

14.02.2024 10

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Some thoughts on the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift

When you poke a hornet’s nest, you expect to get stung. If that hornet’s nest is filled with young girls in spangles and tutus — and their...

08.02.2024 4

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Watching Biden’s abortion speech interrupted a Schadenfruede moment

Schadenfreude is a fabulous word. It means deriving happiness from the pain of others or in literal terms, “joy from damage.” And it’s what I...

01.02.2024 10

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: About a lack of pride, and therefore a lack of shame

The other day, I was walking through the bookstore and ended up in the sports section. Perusing the football biographies but deftly avoiding anything...

24.01.2024 3

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Not even the death of a mother is off limits in today's politics

There are two things that should be completely off limits: a person’s children and a person’s grief. You do not mock a child, something that we...

17.01.2024 6

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Ex-Harvard president could learn something from new Philly mayor

I’ve been watching with some interest the backlash to Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. If you were to believe the media...

11.01.2024 8

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: I got something wrong about John Fetterman, and want to apologize

Regular readers weren’t surprised when I voted against John Fetterman in last year’s Senate race in Pennsylvania. I spent months, and ink,...

29.12.2023 5

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Jesus and his parents were not migrants in going to Bethlehem

Around this time of year, I start seeing posts on social media about how Jesus was a refugee, an asylum seeker, an immigrant, etc. It’s based upon a...

22.12.2023 3

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: The MeToo movement is silent on Hamas

I hated the MeToo movement. It angered me that women who had waited decades to accuse Bill Cosby of rape were believed as if they were the Oracles of...

15.12.2023 6

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: I've tried to warm up to the pope, but he’s left us behind

On March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed Jozef Ratzinger as pope. Pope Francis was the...

07.12.2023 5

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Thankfulness from another continent

I wrote this column in view of the Arno River, celebrated in operas, paintings and literature. My ears were filled with the tones of my ancestors’...

01.12.2023 4

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Indi Gregory’s death just another step toward a callous society

About six years ago, there was a little boy named Charlie Gard. Charlie lived in England, and had two loving parents who begged the country’s...

25.11.2023 8

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Pro-abortion election victories cause for a shudder

In the wake of the off-year elections across the country last week, it became very clear that abortion was the single most important issue that...

16.11.2023 5

Yuma Sun

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Pro-abortion election victories cause for a shudder

By Christine Flowers In the wake of the off-year elections across the country last week, it became very clear that abortion was the single most...

14.11.2023 4

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Defending Israel against rising anti-semitism is our fight

Initially I said to myself, this is not my battle. But then I watched, in horror, as people marched through the streets of Philadelphia chanting the...

09.11.2023 1

Yuma Sun

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Female GOP candidate hit with Democrat's playbook attacks

By Christine Flowers When I was a teenager, my father belonged to Philadelphia's Union League. Back then, in the late 1970s, women were excluded from...

07.11.2023 3

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Female Republican candidate hit with Democrat's playbook attacks

When I was a teenager, my father belonged to Philadelphia’s Union League. Back then, in the late 1970s, women were excluded from the membership...

01.11.2023 5

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Backing the ‘righteous smackdown’ of college campus radicals backing Hamas

There is something in asylum law called the “material support to terrorist” bar, which essentially states that if you have given significant...

27.10.2023 2

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: Reactions following journalist’s murder are revealing

When I learned that Josh Kruger had been murdered in Philadelphia recently, I felt the same sense of shock that most people experienced at hearing the...

12.10.2023 2

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Reactions following journalist's murder are revealing

By Christine Flowers When I learned that Josh Kruger had been murdered in Philadelphia last week week, I felt the same sense of shock that most people...

11.10.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Judge’s ruling reminds of JFK’s ‘Profiles in Courage

John F. Kennedy’s book “Profiles in Courage” told the story of a rare, few U.S. senators who went against the tide of popular opinion and...

04.10.2023 2

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: My alma mater has turned into a leftist re-education camp

When my father proudly mentioned to one of his colleagues that his firstborn child had just been accepted to Bryn Mawr College, he responded:...

28.09.2023 2

Yuma Sun

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Guest Column: An even application of justice would be appreciated

The last time that I wrote anything about the Proud Boys, I got into some hot water. There was a young man from the Bon Air Fire Department in...

14.09.2023 1

Yuma Sun

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