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Guest Column: Other Americans get to vote, too

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Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Opinion: NEWSPAPERS AREN'T GIVING LIBERALS THE VALIDATION THEY NEED

by Christine Flowers on November 4, 2024 Opinions are like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it's...

06.11.2024 4

El Dorado News Times

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Opinion: Some Jewish voters wising up to Democrats

by Christine Flowers on October 29, 2024 About a month ago, I had lunch at a great diner in South Philly. My omelet was fantastic, oozing with cheese...

31.10.2024 6

El Dorado News Times

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Sex, lies, and other distractions

Kamala Harris is making the rounds to friendly media, which is what insecure politicians tend to do. She hasn’t ventured often into the areas where...

24.10.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Opinion: We see what we want to see with our candidates

by Christine Flowers on October 21, 2024 After complaining that Kamala Harris had not gone into the lion's den of interviews, namely the Newsmaxes or...

23.10.2024 6

El Dorado News Times

Christine Flowers

Opinion: Sex, lies and other distractions

by Christine Flowers on October 14, 2024 Kamala Harris is making the rounds to friendly media, which is what insecure politicians tend to do. She...

16.10.2024 7

El Dorado News Times

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Women aren’t a single voting block

I am a white woman, who spent 80% of her life in the suburbs. I taught high school in the suburbs to young white girls who are now young white women...

15.10.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: We need to return to the world of Sept. 12, 2001

I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat. Fortunately, as I sat at the keyboard,...

20.09.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Opinion: Pride in origins matters, and a person's name reflects that

by Christine Flowers on September 9, 2024 When the media started mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name, I have to admit I rolled my eyes more than once...

11.09.2024 5

El Dorado News Times

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Too many people shunned by loved ones over politics

As I watched the Kennedy siblings close ranks against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. because of his support for Donald Trump, it reminded me of the fragility...

09.09.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Opinion: Kamal disingenous with her 'One of Us' narrative attempts

by Christine Flowers on August 26, 2024 Kamala Harris has been trying to connect with the little people, the ones in semi-flyover country who might be...

28.08.2024 4

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Vance elevated himself out of the dysfunction he was born into

About a week ago, I attended a JD Vance rally. It had aspects of one of those rousing Trump “I’m Proud to Be An American” events. There were GOP...

22.08.2024 8

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest column: Kamala Harris’ response to a protest illustrates an attitude

A few years ago, when the U.S. Senate was considering the nomination of Jeff Sessions as attorney general under Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren started...

16.08.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: A defense of JD Vance from a childless woman

I am what JD Vance would have called a single cat lady. Actually, I don’t have, nor do I particularly like, cats. I am more along the lines of a...

07.08.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Dems and Joe Biden: A classical lesson in modern betrayal

One of the most famous phrases in history is one that my high school Latin teacher Sister Mary David intoned with deep solemnity as we were studying...

24.07.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Echoes of the film ‘1776’ are still heard today

As I’ve done for every Fourth of July since the 1976 bicentennial, I settled down last week to watch my favorite patriotic movie: “1776.” The...

17.07.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: In attacking Trump, Left has demonized blue-collar values

By the time I knew what the term “blue collar” meant, I wasn’t. I come from a long line of blue-collar people, proud Italians and Irish who were...

09.07.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Biden deserves credit for immigration decision

When I hear the phrase “mass deportation,” I envision scenes from Poland in the 1940s. I know a lot of Republicans who would be appalled at that...

27.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Journalist disgraceful tactics used on Alito and his wife

I am not a journalist. I have never pretended to be a journalist. The reason? I don’t pretend to be unbiased. I don’t usually do my own original...

21.06.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Gun control advocates should be thrilled over Hunter Biden’s conviction

There is so much concern for the tender sensitivities of a former drug addict from Delaware. It’s incredibly touching how the media, and Biden...

12.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Alito dust-up has nothing to do with flags

I have never been married, nor do I have any children. I grew up around married people. I descend from a whole line of married people. I have friends...

04.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

TAKE WHAT HARRISON BUTKER SAID IN CONTEXT

by Christine Flowers on May 27, 2024 When Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered his commencement address at Benedictine College earlier...

31.05.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Take what Harrison Butker said in context

When Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered his commencement address at Benedictine College earlier this month, the outrage was primarily...

31.05.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: In memory of her father, a life well lived and over too soon

17.05.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

Guest Column: Campus protests are just pale imitations of the 1960s

It seems silly to write a column about the recent college protests. It’s not really news when privileged students who have never been in the line of...

09.05.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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 6

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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 20

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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 20

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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 40

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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 7

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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 10

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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

Christine Flowers

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 6

Yuma Sun

Christine Flowers

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