Recent Columns
March 14, 2019
by John L. Micek
The conservative Family Research Council is out with its latest congressional scorecard. Four out of the five grades awarded by the Washington, D...
March 14, 2019
by Rich Manieri
Bribing your way into college. It would have been a way around my rather pedestrian exam scores. I do wonder what would have become of me had I attended, say Harvard or Stanford. I dream...
March 13, 2019
by carl golden
In deciding to frame the 2020 election as an apocalyptic showdown between free enterprise capitalism and government-controlled socialism, national Republican party strategists hope to shift attention away from the chaos and uproar of the Trump admini..
March 12, 2019
by Will Durst
The problem is more obvious than half a leech on the sneeze guard of a salad bar: we're paying much too much attention. He has the unique ability to blot out the big picture...
March 12, 2019
by Danny Tyree
Cash is king - but here comes the guillotine! But I didn't realize the extent to which debit cards, apps and other technological innovations have made paper money an endangered commodity...
March 10, 2019
by Christine Flowers
After the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last year, it really shouldn't be a struggle to condemn anti-Semitism. It's a self-evident principle that hatred of Jews is anathema and strikes at the heart of everything civilized...
March 8, 2019
by michael shannon
Donald Trump is remarkably cheerful for a man sitting in the smoking ruins of his presidency. This week, the Department of Commerce reports our trade deficit is $621 billion, much higher than the level that existed during the Obama administration...
March 8, 2019
by Michael Reagan
I was out of the country for a week with my wife, but when we got back it was like nothing had changed. Depending on what TV channel you turned on, it was still either all pro-Trump or all anti-Trump, all pro-wall or all anti-wall...
If there's a sucker born every minute, our commander-in-chief is clearly the man of the hour...
March 1, 2019
by michael shannon
It's hard to believe Richard Nixon, the consummate, disciplined insider, and Donald Trump, the shambolic, impulsive outsider, have anything in common, but it's true...
March 1, 2019
by John L. Micek
The experience of two Republican lawmakers from Pennsylvania - a state that President Donald Trump won in 2016, and one that remains critical to his reelection chances - tells us a lot about the state of the GOP in 2019...
March 1, 2019
by peter roff
As it should be, China is very much at the center of the national conversation. They constitute the largest single potential market for U. goods and services anywhere in the world...
February 28, 2019
by Rich Manieri
The U. Senate failed to pass a bill that would require health care professionals to provide life-saving medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion. Yet, all but three Senate Democrats - Bob Casey Jr...
February 27, 2019
by jase graves
After several years of driving with a clean record, most of it while I was awake, the unthinkable happened. No, it wasn't one of my daughters and her boyfriend in the back seat fondling each other's iPhones, but the ominous flashing of lights...
February 27, 2019
by Danny Tyree
Remember the good ol' days of shade tree mechanics, denim patches and Emmett's Fix-It Shop on "Mayberry R....
February 26, 2019
by Will Durst
Democrats applying to be their party's next presidential nominee constitute the second largest growth industry in America surpassed only by those providing legal advice to Trump Administration staffers...
February 26, 2019
by Dick Polman
The Trump regime has trafficked in self-parody since its inception, so perhaps we're already numb to the news that it intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency...
February 25, 2019
by phil kerpen
If you "cut the cord" and switch from cable TV to streaming services, you will probably notice a big difference in price, thanks to that long section of your bill with taxes and fees either being gone completely or dramatically slimmed down...
February 25, 2019
by Christine Flowers
Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitutes. It's a misdemeanor under Florida law, the jurisdiction under which he's being charged, and the maximum sentence he is facing is four months in jail...
February 25, 2019
by John L. Micek
America has a bunch of foundational myths - George Washington and his famed cherry tree, the belief that anyone can get ahead if they just work hard enough and the stubborn belief that our occasionally sputtering constitutional republic is still more..
February 22, 2019
by Michael Reagan
Jussie Smollett didn't think he was getting paid enough for acting in "Empire. He apparently thought that if he got a big splash of national publicity, Fox would have to pay him more...
February 22, 2019
by michael shannon
The late Darryl Royal once explained the problem with cockroaches: "It's not what they eat and tote off, it's what they fall into and mess up...
Just days ago, President Donald Trump finally signed a bipartisan bill to keep the U. government open and functioning for longer than a stopgap amount of time. It was an extraordinary step to address what one might call an "unusual" emergency...
February 22, 2019
by matt mackowiak
Earlier this month, President Trump provided hope he will add yet another bullet point to his growing list of accomplishments. The first way the EPA is expected to do this is by lifting burdensome restrictions on the production and sale of ethanol...
February 21, 2019
by Rich Manieri
It's a terrible story. Justin "Jussie" Smollett, a black, gay actor, told police that he was attacked by two racist Trump supporters on a Chicago street Jan...
February 21, 2019
by Danny Tyree
According to NBC News, we are in the early stages of mood forecasting technology that could help stop bad moods even before they strike...
February 20, 2019
by Will Durst
President Donald Trump loves him some wall. Not that karmic wall of wasting all his political capital sucking up to superstitious xenophobes. No, not those thick as a brick wall. He even said opponents can name it "peaches...
February 19, 2019
by Peter Funt
The snide old saw in college used to be: If you can't make it in business, teach it...