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| Welcome to the middle of the week! We have a lot of columns today covering a wide range of topics. Starting with Aaron Rodgers, who until this week I thought was Brett Favre. |
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| By The Editorial Board |
| As the NFL deliberates on whether to punish its three-time most valuable player, Aaron Rodgers, and the Green Bay Packers for flagrantly violating COVID-19 rules, the league needs to consider the terrible errors in judgment the quarterback committed. |
| It's bad enough that the unvaccinated Rodgers openly flouted NFL rules on mask wearing and distancing – and his team enabled him. Or that he lied about being "immunized." |
| But when Rodgers elected to defend himself spouting junk science, conspiracies and snake-oil remedies, he recklessly ignored his power as a football superstar to misinform millions of Americans hesitant about vaccination. |
| That's messing with people's lives. |
Today's Editorial Cartoon |
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| By Jill Lawrence |
| There's no Republican more bold, and no politician more on message, than Rep. Liz Cheney. Her speech Tuesday at a First Amendment event in New Hampshire may have been a feeler into presidential politics. It was definitely a call to conscience that cemented her role as the highest-profile Republican truth teller on what she called "a domestic threat that we have never faced before" – a former president trying to unravel the foundations of U.S. democracy, aided by "political leaders who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man." |
| This daughter of a former vice president, now a national headliner in her own right, projects the kind of fierce vibe many people prize in politicians. Think Annie Oakley meets Margaret Thatcher. The testing moments keep coming and, unlike so many others in the Republican Party, she keeps rising to them – in a very Clint Eastwood, make-my-day fashion. |
| "Bring it," the Wyoming congresswoman tweeted when former President Donald Trump called her a disloyal warmonger and endorsed one of her former supporters to succeed her. "Pathetic garbage," she said when Trump trashed former Secretary of State Colin Powell on the occasion of his death. And there was her classic putdown of Rep. Jim Jordan when he tried to get "the ladies" to safety amid Trump supporters' deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. "I smacked his hand away and told him, 'Get away from me. You (expletive) did this,' " she said, according to the new book "I Alone Can Fix It." |
| If only I agreed with Cheney on … much of anything beyond Trump. |
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| By Christopher Nagel and Clayton Zook |
| For a generation, too many of the injured U.S. service member survivors of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and their families have suffered in near silence, barely remembered but forever wounded and damaged. |
| The toll of the past 25 years for us and so many others has been excruciating: life-changing physical injuries, post-traumatic stress, constant anxiety, nightmares and far too many damaged and broken relationships. |
| The 5,000-pound truck bomb detonated at the Khobar Towers complex in Dhahran killed 19 U.S. airmen and injured more than 400 others. We served there on a peacekeeping mission, charged with monitoring Iraqi compliance with United Nations Security Council resolutions. |
Other columns to read today |
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Columns on qualified immunity |
| We are doing a series examining the issue of qualified immunity. For more on the series read here. |
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| This column was compiled by Jaden Amos. |
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