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PARKER: The ‘N’ in SNAP means nutrition

SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is one of the nation's largest welfare programs. And, like all welfare programs, it is massive, it has grown prodigiously over the years and it is inefficient. One glaring issue, which is gaining attention as a ...

GARVEY: Who can hold a candle to Trump’s amazingness?

Attorney General Pam Bondi recently congratulated President Donald Trump in a cabinet meeting, saying that he has personally saved 258 million lives. Bondi said millions of fentanyl-laced pills that teenagers would have bought thinking they were "a Tylenol or an Adderall" (there, apparently, ...

BARONE: Trump’s push for equal rights and against quotas

"It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals." Those words, the operative section of "Restoring Equality of ...

Guest opinion: Exercise science

Ha! I knew it! I knew there was something fishy about exercise and now I’ve got the science to prove it! I’m sure everyone has experienced time slowing down or speeding up. Meetings that involve graphs and flowcharts exert a powerful gravitational well that slow down time so much that ...

Guest opinion: The political economy of national debt

It is now a tradition in the United States Congress that whenever the new national budget and the national debt limit come for approval, politics get mixed up with economics. In 2007-08, when the country faced high unemployment and low inflation, Tea party and other conservatives wanted to ...