Hanukkah is a celebration of freedom • Animal officials promise compassion, but offer euthanasia
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| | President Biden has the opportunity to swing into the presidential election year with a significant piece of bipartisan legislation |
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| Beginning at sundown today, observant Jews around the world will begin the celebration of Hanukkah, a festival of lights. It was instituted to celebrate the liberation of Israel from domination by the Syrian Seleucid empire, which sought to suppress the traditional Hebrew religion by law and violence. |
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| I’ve been filled with disgust at California’s government-funded animal shelters, which claim to be models of compassion but really are killing fields that euthanize many healthy and adoptable animals. |
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| Under the circumstances, state leaders should figure out how to wind down the project. |
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| Although many members of the Greatest Generation are no longer with us, Americans always will remember the sacrifice that began Dec. 7, 1941. |
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| The predicament is an indictment of industrial policy, a costly species of government intervention increasingly favored by both political parties. |
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| Newsom’s calculations are those of other Democratic hopefuls as well. |
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| All this killing, unless in self-defense — killing for empire is not in self-defense — defies the natural law |
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| The late, great humorist P.J. O’Rourke used to quip that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes. |
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| If Johnson can’t keep a House majority, then ditching McCarthy will have backfired, especially for California. |
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