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PARKER: Dear senators, pass One Big Beautiful Bill

The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill by a margin of one vote. Well-deserved kudos have been conveyed to the masterful leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated through a minefield to get done what needed to get done. Now it's up to the Senate. It's impossible not to think now ...

HARROP: Red America is making money off green energy

Wyoming is the second windiest state, after Nebraska. It's obvious why the wind power industry is investing $10 billion there. And it's hard to see why any state politician would oppose this. But some have. Wyoming is one of those fossil-fuel producing states in which so-called conservatives ...

STOSSEL: Socialist Utopia

Bizarrely, 62% of young Americans hold a "favorable view" of socialism. How can they be so ignorant? Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It's failed. It always fails. China prospered somewhat only after they legalized some private enterprise. Perhaps today's kids are ignorant ...

GARVEY: Are we losing our humanity along with our empathy?

On the night of May 21, someone shot two young Israeli Embassy employees walking out of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., after an event. Police said the suspect shouted, "Free, free Palestine," after he was arrested. In a New York Times post about the attack, one commenter ...

ESTRICH: Habeas corpus (and the Cabinet of clowns)

She did not even know what habeas corpus is. It should come as no surprise, judging from her actions. At a hearing, she was asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat: Senator Hassan: "Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?" Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: "Well, habeas ...

BARONE: The Democrats: Leadership discredited, party off kilter

How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just ...