by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—Normalcy: It’s a wallflower during the ball, but it almost always gets the last waltz. Recent proof of this universal truth is reflected in the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to British playwright Harold Pinter. The master of...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—It’s disturbing to watch bad ideas grow legs. In the deadly firestorm ignited by the Danish cartoons caricaturing Islam, one bad idea—the “clash of civilizations”—seems to have found its feet. The agenda shaping up for this...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—Taking care of the troops under his command is an officer’s sacred duty. That duty applies exponentially to a commander-in-chief. Yet the present commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, has further jeopardized the troops he sent to Iraq and...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
2008 Candidates have an opportunity to face down barbaric tactics in interrogation GIG HARBOR, WASH.—Finally! Americans have an opportunity to face down a monster—the ignominy of using barbaric torture tactics in the name of national security—let loose upon us by the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
We need leadership, not ‘likemanship.’ GIG HARBOR, WASH.— With Election Day 2008 more than a year-and-a-half off, already the presidential campaign is—sigh—energetically under way. And already—groan—we hear the media discuss it as a popularity contest. As...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
For some time now, the commentariat—columnists, critics, bloggers—has bashed the American public as “celebrity-starved,” gobbling every sighting and, better yet, smashup of a person “famous for being famous.” And, with the smashups...
