June 10, 2023, 6:02am Columns
It might be difficult to imagine a far-right fire-and-brimstone preacher having an influence on politics in deep-blue Washington. But it happened. Read story
June 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Democratic Party politics around here, which is to say all politics of late, has been a bit like the old Soviet Politburo. You wait your turn for this post or that, and then the whole party gets in line. Read story
June 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns
I would like to ask Republican primary voters: Which of the following lines would you cheer for? What are the values you stand for, which is different from the policies you prefer? Read story
June 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns
default on the nation’s debts and the possibility of a recession — the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy deserve credit for cobbling together a compromise to suspend the nation’s debt ceiling. But the agreement, approved by the House and Senate, shouldn’t have been necessary, and its curbs on… Read story
June 9, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Fewer guns plus more gun control add up to less gun carnage. That’s logical. And it’s a fact. California is proof. So is Mississippi. Read story
June 7, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Campaign season usually starts in earnest after Memorial Day, when candidates get serious about raising money and filling their calendars with speeches, forums and debates, along with days of waving signs on street corners and nights of knocking on doors to meet voters. Read story
June 6, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Would we really risk the catastrophe of a debt default because we think that some citizens who are receiving food stamps may not be working hard enough? Read story
June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night. Read story
June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
While touches of decency still hang around, a leftist, holier-than-thou, pseudo-intellectual movement is pummeling America into a conglomeration of inanities and inhumanity. An overriding point of view combines vacuous utopianism and post-modernist relativism junking realism, rationalism and objectivity. Read story
June 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when our national obsession with drag queens began. Sometime after they started appearing in libraries for children’s story hours but before Target began selling “tuck-friendly” bathing suits would be my guess. Read story
