7 of our top opinion columns this week: ICYMI
From the House vote for an impeachment inquiry, to the destruction of the Republican Party, here are some of our top columns of the week.
In today's fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we've started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week's top Paste BN Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback.
1. Baseball bliss, every 50 years: Let’s go Mets! Let’s go Nats!
By Bill Sternberg
"Through the team’s post-season run, I wore my lucky Nationals shirt during every game because, well, they played better when I did. Astonishing comeback followed astonishing comeback. And now Ryan Zimmerman & Co. are World Champions, a unifying force in an otherwise polarized capital."
2. Alec Baldwin: To defeat Donald Trump, start with next week's Virginia elections
By Alec Baldwin
"It’s hard to overstate just how much is riding on Virginia’s (Tuesday) elections and how they could influence the ultimate fortunes of Trump and Republicans. Virginia was always going to be the warmup act for the 2020 elections: an early gauge of Americans’ appetite to repudiate Trump and Trumpism."
3. The House voted for an impeachment inquiry, and Republicans failed a test of character
By Tom Nichols
"This is not only the beginning of impeachment. ... This is the end of the Republican Party as the representative of any kind of coherent political movement. The end of the GOP as anything but a cult of personality has been in the cards for some time now, as Trump has crashed through one constitutional barrier after another."
4. Should Trump get a third term if he's impeached and acquitted? Hmmmmm ...
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
"One reason our politics — and most especially our congressional politics — are so frivolous is that there are few consequences for frivolity. There should be a price. I’d support a constitutional amendment to fix that, but there’s zero chance that an amendment to make Congress more accountable would pass Congress these days."
5. Navy SEALs want to kick out bad actors. Then commander in chief Donald Trump stepped in.
By The Editorial Board
"The commander in chief, who has advocated torture and taken a keen interest in pardoning troops convicted of war crimes, complained in a tweet this month that 'we train our boys to be killing machines, then prosecute them when they kill!' ... Is the United States still the good guys?"
6. Progressives, Hispanics are not 'Latinx.' Stop trying to Anglicize our Spanish language.
By Giancarlo Sopo
"Progressives argue that Latinx fixes the gendered nature of Spanish, which they maintain is unfair to women and excludes individuals who do not identify as male or female. ... Hispanic Americans face plenty of challenges. The last thing we need are progressives 'wokesplaining' how to speak Spanish."
7. I lost my son to opioids. Help me fight this epidemic
By Eric Bolling
"Parents: Wake up! Your kid isn’t too white, too black, too Hispanic, too straight, too gay, too smart, too popular or too cool to be affected. It doesn’t matter if he’s the captain of the football team or she’s the prom queen. Opioids are killing indiscriminately. They don’t care who you are."