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“We’re not going to fix it,” Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said following the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville that killed six people, including three children. “Criminals will be criminals,” he said. He may as well have said, “Meh.” A student was shot at my ...
In 2016, the prolific author and economist Thomas Sowell gave up his syndicated column after a quarter-century. A few months later, I asked him how it felt. He was delighted. The best part, he confided, was not having to read the news so assiduously every day. Hoo boy. “I feel ya,” as ...
Right after a 28-year-old shot six people to death at a small Christian school, Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, emoted on camera. “Three precious little kids lost their lives,” he said with sad resignation, “and I believe three adults.” Burchett then defended the ...
Generation Z is not the first cohort to face recessions, burdensome debt and a tough time finding a good job. Every generation has gone through this and some much more. The Greatest Generation entered the workforce still bearing the anguish of World War II. The 1956 movie “The Man in the ...
The ace Gov. Rick DeSantis brings to the 2024 Republican table is simple: he won’t be indicted any day now. An angry young man, 44, next to angry old Donald Trump, DeSantis is no treat. He’s learned his lessons well about hard Right, mean-spirited politics — from Trump himself. ...
Every time I think the overused term “woke” has just about played out in politics, it seems to come roaring back into our politics with new vigor — and new confusion. The latest newsmakers to unintentionally get entangled in that confusion appears to be conservative writer Bethany ...