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National Columnists

America at 250: US greatest country in world

If you want to find out why our country has been so successful, you should study the people who built it. America is about to turn 250 years old. It should be easy to celebrate America. Aside from the healthy patriotic pride anyone should feel, we are the greatest country in the ...

Trusting God in time like this

As I have begun my summer three-mile power-walking workouts on a commercial street, I noticed two large billboard signs taking aim at President Donald Trump and the economy. Both signs depict Trump in a petulant manner, with one asking why our vacations are so expensive this year. The ...

General time is undefeated in battle

I am on a mudslide toward death. Well, we all are, really, when you think about it, but sometimes it just seems you're slipping down the side of the mountain faster than at other times. Like, for example, when you're approaching a birthday that starts with a "fif" and ends with crying ...

Trump ties name to dubious diplomacy

Donald Trump has been the greatest, most clear-eyed and most transformative foreign policy president of my lifetime. But Trump is also the famed businessman who wrote "The Art of the Deal" four decades ago. There has therefore always been the risk that the president's novel and often unorthodox ...

Time for merit immigration

Swiss voters went to the polls last week and resoundingly rejected capping the country's rapidly growing population at 10 million by limiting immigration. Congratulations to the Swiss for staging a national conversation over immigration – something the United States urgently needs to do. The ...

Trump not following Polk’s example in war

A president orders the onset of hostilities without authorization of Congress and without much in the way of making a case with the public. His troops win important victories and decapitate large parts of the government of the enemy. But in the enemy capital, no one surrenders or will even ...