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Confession: For the past couple of years, I fell into the “Biden shouldn’t run again” camp. Too old. Better not to ask Americans to reelect a man who will be 82 in November of 2024 and ... you know the rest. Nikki Haley summed it up tactlessly in April: “The idea that he would make it ...
America is the land of plenty, but to many, it’s become a world of envy and anger. Nowadays, malcontents seem to feel more entitled to act out in anti-social ways. Their loss of self-control is most troubling in an airplane, where many humans are trapped in an aluminum tube. The result has ...
There’s an approach to political questions that the conservative in me rebels against. Let’s call it the “You can’t have too much of a good thing” fallacy. Virtually every popular idea in American life has cheerleaders for this fallacy. You’ve surely heard someone say something ...
To the editor: The Lecompton Historical Society has come into possession of unique historical documents relating to Bleeding Kansas and the United States Congress. The Lecompton Constitution would have made Kansas a slave state and was intensely debated across the US. The anti-Lecompton ...
Mike Pence, after about seven years of campaigning with Donald Trump, serving with Trump, and showing as much deference as could possibly be expected to Trump, is now officially “liddle.” Donald Trump finally issued a complete denunciation of his former vice president, who now has been ...
Perhaps it’s only coincidental but this, the summer of “Barbie,” also is the summer of our discontent in politics — over manhood. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, helped to get the ball rolling with a new book, “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.” I thought it ...
