Return auto industry to the free market
Donald Trump is promising to relieve the American automobile industry of the pressure from Washington to rapidly deliver an all-electric-vehicle future.
Your Views for November 22
Gauging the economy by the price of SPAM
The joke is on Alex Jones: Infowars is now the property of The Onion’s satirists
In a fitting and just outcome, Infowars, the hateful tool of the odious Alex Jones, who profited from horrid lies about the murdered of children of the Sandy Hook school massacre, is now the property of The Onion, with the backing of the families of the slain boys and girls.
Bird flu is about to crash flu season. It could get ugly
It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.
Justice is not revenge. The nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general cannot stand
“The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself,” observes the loyal-to-a-fault Macduff in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “consisting of the soul’s slow agonizing descent.”
Grousing on housing — Economic concerns drove Trump victory
In the wake of Democratic voters in cities and suburbs around the country staying home or trending right, resulting in big swings to Donald Trump almost uniformly, analysts and commentators have cast about for answers. We can posit at least one relatively straightforward one: lack of housing.
The bombastic Matt Gaetz cannot become the US attorney general
Matt Gaetz, the House-wrecking Florida congressman, cannot be U.S. attorney general. No way at all. We know that this isn’t a joke because Donald Trump published the proposed nomination on his Truth Social at 3:24 Wednesday afternoon, surprising flabbergasted Democrats and Republicans.
The Island Intelligencer: Foreign spies’ post-election mischief
U.S. intelligence community warnings, nongovernment think tank analysis and international press reporting since summer have painted a picture of aggressive Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy services’ covert influence operations to manipulate U.S. voter choices and sow discord in the citizenry over hot button issues — immigration, inflation, ballot security, gun laws.
Progressives now learn to love the Senate filibuster
News outlets called the last outstanding U.S. Senate race this week for Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona. That gives Republicans a 53-47 edge in the chamber after picking up four seats.
Trump’s staggering win isn’t a landslide. Democrats, learn the lessons and move on
After months of obsessing over the presidential contest, it was jarring to tune in to the annual Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery and see President Joe Biden center stage. The all-but-forgotten president is too literally a lame duck; his stride has given way to a shuffle. He looks lost. He tried to project force in his tribute, but you braced for the verbal trips.
A GOP that once welcomed immigrants gears up for Trump crackdown
After the rhetoric comes the reality. For anyone who thought Donald Trump’s immigration talk was just stirring up fear to get elected, his first appointments should make clear he is going to work to make it happen.
Your Views for November 17
Ongoing neglect at Kawamoto pool
Thankful to be living in Hilo
November is generally the month where we think about and express gratitude. Despite the somewhat checkered history of Thanksgiving Day, the fact that we have earmarked a day on which we give thanks for what we have rather than complaining about what we don’t is probably a good thing.
I am a Mexican American who voted for Trump. No, I don’t hate myself
I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I experienced homelessness as a child. I am everything Democrats claim to support, right?
Waltz’s foreign policy dance card — Avoid dangerous isolationism
The week after he won the White House, Donald Trump announced his national security advisor. It was 2016 and the pick was Mike Flynn, a man with an oddly pro-Russian worldview who only would last three weeks in the role, having lied to the vice president about talking to the Russians. Flynn was also under investigation for being an unregistered foreign agent. Later convicted of crimes, Flynn was ultimately pardoned by Trump.
Trump’s mass deportation plan has its leaders in place
President-elect Donald Trump is moving aggressively on mass deportation, installing two of the most strident anti-immigrant voices in his circle in key positions.
What did Trump offer the working class?
Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the presidential election was a stunning rebuke by the American people of the policies and leadership of the Biden-Harris administration.
Not just bad guys: Trump deportations are coming for our law-abiding neighbors
In winning the solid majority of the voting public, Donald Trump would have added to that total plenty of non-citizen, undocumented immigrants had they been able to cast ballots (and no, there’s no evidence that non-citizens voted) because he pledged his deportation plans would ship out the bad people, the murderers, rapists and drug lords.
Vile texts received after the election reveal a bolder brand of racism
MINNEAPOLIS — The racist texts that have pinged the phones of Black Americans after this election show that not even the children are safe.
What did the Asian American vote this year tell us?
The 2024 election results make clear: The Asian American electorate has shifted further right. The trend portends a new future for this voting bloc that bodes well for the Republican Party. And it has been brewing for years.