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Ada Fisher: It’s not just about sex
“TransMania” is seemingly overtaking the media and hyper-inflating a new national show, “What’s my sex.” Lia Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania student competing as a female ...
Ada Fisher, Author at Salisbury Post
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Ada Fisher: Unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors should be returned home
By Ada Fisher The caravans of illegal unaccompanied minors at the U.S. border with Mexico are not acceptable and should not be tolerated. The Biden ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, April 25, 2021 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Be the bigger person
By Ada Fisher Thirty-eight years ago in President Gerald R. Ford‘s inaugural remarks leading up to a pardon for Richard Nixon, he stated “our long ...
by Ada Fisher, Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: College education should not be on taxpayers’ dime
By Ada Fisher Any plan to do national forgiveness of student loans is wrong unless those loans had a service or in-kind contract that such ...
by Ada Fisher, Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Give us all oxygen we need to breathe
By Ada Fisher It is absolutely galling how quickly people forget those who have stood in opposition to Black lives progressing but now want all ...
by Ada Fisher, Thursday, October 15, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Go forward with Supreme Court vote
By Ada Fisher It is mind-boggling to hear Hillary Clinton falsely proclaiming that the Republicans want a Trump appointee now on the courts to overturn ...
by Ada Fisher, Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Money, where art thou?
As the nation waits with bated breath to see if Congress will continue in its money give away, lost in the discussion is the fate ...
by Ada Fisher, Thursday, August 13, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: We can’t breathe
The death of George Floyd was unfortunately aided by a policeman’s knee on his throat. His pleas of “I can’t breathe” typifies a nation of ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Trump still has my vote in 2020
By Ada Fisher As a black Republican of over 52 years, President Donald Trump has my vote not because of party loyalty but because of ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: More to come from coronavirus
To open or not open, that is the question. Whether it is nobler to save a nation’s economy and essence for its survival in reopening ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Coronavirus changes conversation around government assistance
Any thoughts of abandoning the SNAP program for school children who live beneath the poverty line are ill-conceived, particularly now. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, April 19, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Nominee should pick female running mate
Though many are lamenting the lack of women in elective office in US society, the cardinal rule of politics here is golden — ye who ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Black Americans must be part of telling own story
By Ada Fisher The sad state of black affairs is the trolling for black votes and misrepresentation of its importance to the state of affairs ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Kobe Bryant goes out on top
By Ada Fisher The shocking deaths of former NBA great Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna in an unfortunate plane crash has so stunned a ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Just ‘zip it,’ Mr. President
It pains me to hear my President tell four congresswomen of color who are legitimate U.S. citizens to “go back” where they came from, fix ...
by Ada Fisher, Tuesday, July 23, 2019 12:00 am
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Dr. Ada Fisher: Behind the midterm numbers
Though many races for Congress were close, much seems to be missing in the media’s analysis, as well as appraisals by both parties. Some might ...
by Ada Fisher, Friday, November 23, 2018 12:45 am
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Dr. Ada Fisher: Our Haley’s comet
Halley’s Comet is one of the few comets that can be regularly seen on Earth with the human eye. It is considered a short-period comet ...
by Ada Fisher, Monday, October 22, 2018 3:13 pm
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Ada Fisher: Williams so right, still so wrong
Serena Williams is one of the greatest athletes of all time. Her performance in the finals of the women’s U.S. Opens was baffling; it looked ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00 am
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Dr. Ada Fisher: Funerals were not our finest hours
After becoming prime minister of a coalition government, Winston Churchill on June 18, 1940, delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom an ...
by Ada Fisher, Tuesday, September 4, 2018 9:26 pm
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Dr. Ada Fisher: Aretha Franklin’s music appealed to the best in us
Missed in the tributes to the late Aretha Franklin was the magnitude of her musical progression from gospel based in the Baptist church of her ...
by Ada Fisher, Friday, August 24, 2018 6:45 pm
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Ada Fisher: Court still dominated by certain types
It is impossible not to support U.S. Supreme Court justices who are constitutionalists with an originalist bent. Candidate Brett Kavanaugh certainly fits that bill. Fears ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, August 12, 2018 12:00 am
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Dr. Ada Fisher: Druggist wrong to reject prescription
The recent denial by a pharmacist in Walgreen’s of Peoria, Arizona, of a woman’ prescription for an abortive drug is absolutely wrong given the circumstances ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, July 4, 2018 8:06 pm
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Ada M. Fisher: It’s not about just the children
From the first lady on down, few are want to justify separating children from parents as families seem hell bent on illegally crossing the border. ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, June 24, 2018 12:00 am
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Dr. Ada Fisher: When Harry wed Meghan
When Harry met Meghan, a transformative spirit unfolded. The significance of an African American woman marrying into British Royalty is something many people of color, ...
by Ada Fisher, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:16 pm
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Ada Fisher: Trump was right on Syria
Donald Trump’s call with allies to strategically bomb Syria is to be applauded. For too long, pacifist foreign policy has allowed other nations to exploit ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, April 29, 2018 10:27 pm
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Dr. Ada Fisher: Afraid of and for our children
The recent shoot-up at another school raises the specter of children in rage and out of control. When 17 people are killed at the hands ...
by Ada Fisher, Sunday, February 18, 2018 5:48 pm
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The anti-black tinge of immigration
The reprehensible comments allegedly spoken by President Donald Trump, castigating the continent of Africa and Haiti as unworthy of immigration to this nation misunderstands their ...
by Ada Fisher, Monday, January 22, 2018 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Can Trump save elephants?
The move to drop the USA ban on big-game trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia is ill-conceived. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does a disservice ...