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Way back on March 6, not long after President Donald Trump hurled America into the dumbest war imaginable, our Nobel-Peace-Prize-deficient leader declared on social media: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
The First Amendment needs all the help it can get these days. Many progressives want restrictions on “hate speech,” while Democrats weren’t shy about pushing private companies to censor “misinformation” during the pandemic. Meanwhile the FCC under a Republican president has threatened to use its licensing authority to punish broadcasters over perceived political slights. It is against this ...
As President Donald Trump sinks deeper into an Iran quagmire, he looks like a loser for joining an ill-planned war of choice and failing at peace talks. Even if a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (or MOU) is signed soon, this will not be a “peace deal” but will merely kick negotiations on all the tough issues down the road. And the MOU will most likely leave the U. S. worse off than ...
Early polling for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary has former Vice President Kamala Harris as the front-runner, followed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Some of the party’s stronger general election prospects, including Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are stuck in the low single digits.
Polls indicate that President Donald Trump is doing a lot that most Americans don’t support: The war with Iran; the arbitrary tariffs; the retribution campaign against his perceived enemies; the 250-foot Triumphal Arch; the $1.776 billion fund intended to reward Trump loyalists. (Even Republicans don’t like that one!) There’s so much that it’s hard to know what’s important. In the middle of a ...
It turns out you actually have to do things for your constituents to win elections. Who knew?
For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why. For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, summer break is associated with a significant drop in earnings and work hours. This tightens already tight family budgets and adds to the gender pay gap, as fathers don’t tend to reduce work hours in the summer. Then there’s the financial (and administrative) ...
The turmoil engulfing CBS News and “60 Minutes” has left me wondering what my grandfather Andy Rooney would make of it all. Rooney died in 2011 after more than three decades as a fixture of the newsmagazine, and with each passing year I find myself wishing we could hear one more of his droll observations about the state of the world. He had a gift for taking something maddening, absurd or just ...
The fact that a pair of Republican senators are being heralded for doing their jobs reveals just how much Congress has atrophied, especially during President Donald Trump’s second term. Freed from the president’s political yoke, Senator Thom Tillis (because he opted against running for reelection) and Senator Bill Cassidy (because he lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed opponent) have suddenly ...
I have great news for Americans worried that inflation just jumped above 4%, the highest hike in three years. It turns out rising consumer prices are fantastic!
This is a reflective time of year for me. My father, Ronald Reagan, died in June 2004, and each year I let myself drift into whatever realm my thoughts and memories lead me to. Sometimes it’s about who he was as a father — magical when I was a small child, but elusive and a bit awkward as I grew up. This year I have found myself reflecting on who he was as America’s parent — not in a political ...
Republicans are constantly saying the United States can’t afford programs that keep our country running – yet when it comes to the whims of President Donald Trump, they’re happy to foot the bill.
While most folks think that the U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on farm policy, the largest agency within USDA is the Forest Service — famous for Smokey Bear and quietly doing significant work on many fronts. As secretaries of Agriculture during the Clinton and Bush administrations, we spent years getting to know what this agency does: not only timber management but also stewardship of ...
Serena Williams’ comeback isn’t only for her.
There’s nothing like a circus for entertainment, especially if you enjoy the blood sport of South Carolina politics. The Roman Colosseum had nothing on the state’s political games, which these days have become more dramatic thanks to the head-spinning theatrics of Rep. Nancy Mace, the erstwhile Republican front-runner in the governor’s race.
There’s a paragraph that comes early in Mike Pence’s new book, “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” that hangs over most of what follows.
Candidate quality has plagued both parties for years. Republicans notoriously squandered what was supposed to be a red wave in 2022 by nominating a slate of deeply flawed Senate candidates. Democrats have struggled to field strong presidential contenders and have left winnable state races on the table.
The biggest national security threat the United States faces at this moment is President Donald Trump. Nothing illustrates that threat more clearly than the president’s pick of MAGA attack dog Bill Pulte, who has zero experience in the intelligence field, as acting czar of all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies. This choice is a neon sign flashing out Trump’s utter scorn for and distrust of the ...
My family’s faith tradition is what you might call All Over The Place.
President Donald Trump is proving to be the POTUS he has accused Joe Biden of being and scared Americans into thinking Kamala Harris would be. If only his Make America Great Again disciples could recognize that.
