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Stossel: Your tax dollars not at work

Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Harris declared that our government would "build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!" This "Broadband Connectivity Agenda" was supported by "every House Republican on Energy and Commerce," ...

Stiehm: Trump’s rich rogues carving up American pie

The New York Times, NBC News and the "legacy media" have got to change with the Trump times — before Donald Trump takes power in six short weeks on Jan. 20, 2025. One CBS News presidential historian commented on air after Trump's cruel 2016 "American carnage" inaugural address: "That was the ...

Robbins: America confronts its deepening cruelty problem

The cold-blooded, targeted murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he walked into a Manhattan hotel early last Wednesday morning has grabbed national attention, focusing some of it on America's troubling embrace of simple cruelty, and of violence. There's chilling video circulating ...

Parker: Democratic Party monopoly on the Black vote is over

Dean of the nation's political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election. The headline that emerged from that discussion was "Donald Trump's Rainbow Coalition," noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation's Black vote ...

Garvey: We should pardon the president for thinking with his heart

My brother-in-law recently sent a message to our family text chain, the members of whom rest somewhere on the political spectrum from solidly Democratic to more liberal than Mao Zedong. What do we think of this? He linked to a story about President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, who had ...

Stiehm: Three Januarys: All ye need to know

My father and I, discouraged at the election over the holiday, opened a book of poetry I brought along to the house. Somewhere we traveled was back in time to John F. Kennedy's inauguration on a bright snowy day on Jan. 20, 1961. Almost unbelievably, Kennedy asked New England poet Robert ...