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Stiehm: A political day in court

Election 2024 is certainly as classic an American courtroom drama as sure as "Twelve Angry Men." The contrast, nay contradiction, between the two leading witnesses could not be clearer. Speaking of angry men, one star witness in the witness box seems to swim in the spittle of his own ...

Zito: Obama returns to a different western Pennsylvania

PITTSBURGH — When former President Barack Obama comes to Pittsburgh on Thursday to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in the home stretch for next month's election, he will be returning to a very different western Pennsylvania from the one he won robustly in 2008 and less so in ...

Robbins: A lot of phonies since Oct. 7, but also leaders

What began last Oct. 7 with the invasion of Israel by 6,000 Hamas gunmen bent on slaughtering Jews has reached the one-year mark, with Hezbollah, another heavily armed and genocidal enterprise, firing thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. The left has largely whitewashed or defended ...

Erickson: Caveat emptor

A few days ago, Iran launched approximately 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Some of Iran's missiles were hypersonic missiles traveling 10,000 miles an hour. Israel, the United States and other allies were mostly able to stop the missiles. A few days before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

Guest opinion: The supermajority’s appetite for power

Some believe it is the nature and disposition of almost all men that as soon as they get a little authority, they will immediately try to gain more. Power seeking is a natural human impulse, and it is currently on display by the Utah Legislature. As a registered Republican, moderate ...

Barone: The vice presidential debate may matter

Vice presidential debates don't matter, we have been assured over and over. No one votes for vice president or a presidential nominee for her or his choice of running mate. You can go back and look at snap polls taken after past vice presidential debates and find basically zero correlation with ...