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‘Government tyranny’ is finally here, but this time it’s being met with crickets from the Republicans

I have been listening to “conservatives” blast government tyranny since I was an 8-year-old boy watching the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.” Every time liberals want to use government to address a problem, from enforcing civil rights laws, to protecting the environment to lifting the burden of expensive health insurance, “conservatives” have found a…

An apology

I used the word “goombah” to describe Roger Stone in Monday’s and Tuesday’s editions of the Editorial Board. I should not have done that. That’s an offensive word. I believe I have hurt some readers. I apologize without qualification for using that word. I have struck the word out of those pieces. And I pledge…